Two of the nation's largest reservoirs run dry
Las Vegas — More human remains have been found at drought-hit Lake Mead National Recreation Area east of Las Vegas, officials said Sunday.
remains found for the fourth time since his May. A drought in the west is receding the coastline at the shrinking Colorado River reservoir behind the Hoover Dam.
Rangers were called to a reservoir between Nevada and Arizona around 11 a.m. Saturday after the discovery of human bones on Swim Beach, National Park Service officials said.
Rangers and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department diving teams went to retrieve the bodies.
Investigators at the Clark County coroner's office are working through missing person records to determine when and how they died, Park Service officials said.
On May 1, barrels containing human remains were found near Hemenway Harbor. I was. Police believe the body belonged to a man who died from a gunshot wound and that the body was likely dumped in the mid-1970s or early 1980s.
Less than a week later. In , authorities announced that human bones had been found in Calvil Bay.
Most recently, a partial human remains was found in the Boulder Beach area on July 25th.
Police speculate that more bodies may be found as Lake Mead's water levels continue to drop.
These discoveries are about long-standing missing persons and murders dating back decades, to the dawn of organized crime in Las Vegas, just a 30-minute drive from the lake. Inviting speculation. Since the
Reservoir he filled in 1983, the lake level has dropped more than 170 feet.
Lake levels drop while the majority of peer-reviewed science states The world is warmingAtmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are rising during the past 30 years.
is progressing.
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- Climate Change
- Lake Mead
- Drought
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