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El Nio Rains In Calif Spur Growth Of Mushrooms Lethal To Pets
2016-01-28 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: El Nio is bringing more than just heavy rain: Toxic mushrooms are sprouting up in areas of California and they could be lethal for pets. Dogs, for example, are particularly vulnerable because of the amount of time they spend playing outdoors or in forested areas. In fact, veterinarians in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, said they have had at least one dog a week come in for a mushroom-related illness. "Dogs can get very sick. Sometimes it's just vomiting, but other times it can...
Why the rains failed and why they may return
2016-01-24 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Traditionally the Sahel a semi-arid strip of land, south of the Sahara Desert is one of Africas most productive crop regions. But during the 1980s this region, which stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, became better known for drought and famine. Thankfully the region has become wetter again, and now new research indicates that the return of the rains is most likely a beneficial side-effect of global warming. Rainfall statistics show that between the 1950s and 1980s summer rainfall...
El Nio rains get L.A. River roaring to life
2016-01-07 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: At the end of Wood Avenue in South Gate, unseen behind its levee, the ephemeral giant strained in its cage. The raw power drew Rita Adams for the first time in her 40 years of living in the neighborhood. She and her son walked under bare winter elms, past tidy postwar homes with American flags flapping in the rain, up the sandy embankment of an old Union Pacific track, to the top of the concrete channel. She lit a cigarette and shook her head. "Wow." The Los Angeles River had awakened. ...
Californians warned to keep conserving water despite heavy rains
2016-01-06 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Forced by drought to conserve water, Californians were warned against reverting to old habits on Tuesday as the first of several storms spawned by a record-tying El Nio began drenching the state. A series of storms lining up over the Pacific Ocean was welcome news in parched California, despite their potential for causing flash floods and mudslides. But authorities cautioned that even the wettest of winters cant replenish depleted reservoirs and aquifers unless everyone keeps pitching in. ...
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Coffee gets cheaper as rains boost supplies
2015-12-29 14:49:50| Food - Topix.net
Hedge funds are betting your morning cup of coffee is going to get cheaper, even as prices head for a sixth straight monthly loss. Arabica-coffee futures tumbled in 2015 as ample rains boosted crops in Brazil, the world's biggest producer and exporter.
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