Climate change identified as contributor to Oroville Dam spillway incident
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Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and colleagues say in a new study that they have identified the fingerprint of climate change in the events that triggered Oroville Dam’s spillway collapse in 2017.