{"id":1261666,"date":"2015-10-25T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=waterfalls-are-more-threatened-than-you-might-think"},"modified":"2015-10-25T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T17:52:00","slug":"waterfalls-are-more-threatened-than-you-might-think","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=waterfalls-are-more-threatened-than-you-might-think","title":{"rendered":"Waterfalls are more threatened than you might think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 years ago today, a 63-year-old Michigan schoolteacher took the first ride ever down Niagara Falls in a barrel.\u00a0Annie Edson Taylor\u00a0may have survived, but the future will tell if the waterfalls available for such (now-illegal) escapades will. Here are a few threats to waterfalls we can\u2019t ignore if we want to preserve these\u00a0natural wonders.1. DroughtLast year,\u00a0Yosemite Falls went dry\u00a0for five months. While the falls have always been ephemeral, meaning they flow seasonally, California\u2019s severe drought had stopped them two months earlier than usual in June until December rains started them again a month late. In The Atlantic, outdoorsman and author Michael Lanza wondered if the world\u2019s\u00a0sixth-highest falls\u00a0would actually disappear, with climate change leading to less and less snowfall. Snowpack in the Cascade Range has already decreased 15 to 30 percent in the past 70 years.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/EnvironmentalNewsNetwork\/~4\/6cWCpOiSJnw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1261666","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Waterfalls are more threatened than you might think - Revolution<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 100 years ago today, a 63-year-old Michigan schoolteacher took the first ride ever down Niagara Falls in a barrel.\u00a0Annie Edson Taylor\u00a0may have\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/therevolutionmovie.com\/?news=waterfalls-are-more-threatened-than-you-might-think\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waterfalls are more threatened than you might think - 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