The Colorado River, which feeds Lake Mead, is under unprecedented strain from drought, over-allocation, and climate change. The lake, which is America’s largest reservoir, supplies water to 25 million ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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Lake Mead is projected to sink below record lows in less than two years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. By September 2027, the reservoir will dip to 1,038.48 feet above sea level, the ...

Niche Hybrid Genetic Algorithm (NHGA) is an Advanced Optimisation Method that Combines the Strengths of Niche Techniques in Genetic Algorithms (GAs) with Local Search Methods, Typically the ...

Introduction: In unsupervised learning, data clustering is essential. However, many current algorithms have issues like early convergence, inadequate local search capabilities, and trouble processing ...

MEAD, Wash. -- Teachers in the Mead School district might not return for the first day of school unless a bargaining agreement with the district is made before the end of the month. At the general ...

MEAD, Wash. - Teachers in the Mead School District face an uncertain start to the academic year as contract negotiations with the district remain unresolved with less than two weeks before classes ...

Lake Mead, along the Nevada-Arizona border, the largest reservoir in the U.S. by capacity, could hit worryingly low levels in the coming years, according to officials. Lake Mead, capable of storing ...

After a brief reprieve in 2023 and early 2024, a long-simmering water crisis in the West is back with a vengeance amid ebbing water reservoirs, drought and wildfire risks. In fact, according to a ...

Every year, boating enthusiasts across the Southwest hitch watercraft to their vehicles and haul them down to Lake Mead, a Colorado River reservoir straddling Arizona and Nevada. This year, though, ...