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Most elders among Afar pastoralists bear past drought events and its severity in their mind.
Years of humans' feeding bears and available garbage have urbanized black bears, and a drought last winter has aggravated the problem.
But fires, record high temperatures and a statewide drought bore down on the valley this year, making things bad for hops.
Even as the drought bore down, even as the water levels declined, the oil industry continued to demand water and those with water on their land were willing to sell it.
With temperatures 10 degrees above normal accompanying the California drought, bears have found little reason to hibernate -- especially when there is plentiful food in the Lake Tahoe region.
While the companies profit, millions of Americans already are being hurt by climate change and countless generations to come will continue to bear the cost of drought, fire, floods and other disasters.
Normally, dewberries begin to ripen about 6 weeks after the last freezing temperatures in an area, and continue to bear several weeks, unless drought or extreme heat causes them to become dormant.
Unprecedented heatwaves, along with worsening bushfires, storms and droughts, already bear witness to climate change in Australia.
In some areas of the Rockies, a late May freeze followed by drought left bears with less forage than usual, the Forest Service said.
