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The El Niño rains multiplied mice twentyfold - and exposed why people died
An El Niño turns the Four Corners desert into a bloom, a lung illness starts killing people - can anyone stop it?
The El Niño rains multiplied mice twentyfold - and exposed why people died
In this episode, we follow how an extraordinary year of rain reshaped a high desert landscape and set off a chain of events linking climate, rodents, and a mysterious lung disease. The episode traces the spring of 1993 back to the soils and asks how weather can make an invisible risk visible.
Person: deer mouse
Date: spring of 1993
Event: El Niño-driven heavy rainfall in late 1992
Location: Four Corners…
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