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Water War Amid Brazil Drought Leads to Fight Over Puddles
2014-11-25 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Brazils Jaguari reservoir has fallen to its lowest level ever, laying bare measurement posts that jut from exposed earth like a line of dominoes. The nations two biggest cities are fighting for what little water is left. Sao Paulo state leaders want to tap Jaguari, which feeds Rio de Janeiros main source. Rio state officials say they shouldnt suffer for others mismanagement. Supreme Court judges have summoned the parties to Brasilia for a mediation session this week. The standoff in a...
Record Drought Reveal Stunning Changes Along Colorado River
2014-11-23 14:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: In early September, at the abandoned Piute Farms marina on a remote edge of southern Utah's Navajo reservation, we watched a ten-foot (three-meter) waterfall plunging off what used to be the end of the San Juan River. Until 1990, this point marked the smooth confluence of the river with Lake Powell, one of the largest reservoirs in the U.S. But the lake has shrunk so much due to the recent drought that this waterfall has emerged, with sandy water as thick as a milkshake. My partner DeEdda McLean...
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Australia's Chance El Nio Rises To 70%; Heatwaves & Drought To Persist
2014-11-20 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The weather bureau has revised its El Nio forecast from a 50 percent probability to the current 70 percent. According to the bureau's latest report, above average sea temperatures continue to rise in the Pacific Ocean in the last two weeks. Surface temperatures have increased higher than El Nio thresholds in the past three months. The bureau's El Nio southern oscillation tracker status was changed from "watch" to "alert" level. The eastern part of Australia may be facing dry conditions in the...
Sacramentos salmon run in full swing, but drought still a worry
2014-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: A miraculous thing happens each fall in the Sacramento Valley, and its not the end of 100-degree weather: Salmon return to the areas rivers and creeks. One hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean, the valley hosts one of the largest annual salmon spawning runs in America. More than 300,000 fall-run Chinook (or king) salmon are expected to return from the ocean to area creeks and rivers, mostly in October and November, to spawn in hatcheries or on their own in river gravels. The big fish many...
No Recovery, But a Sliver of Drought Gain for Calif
2014-11-07 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The phrase "abnormally dry' might conjure up a skin condition or your preferred type of martini. But it might just be the most positive words uttered in months about California's relentless drought. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor released Thursday, a tiny sliver of the Golden State is no longer in drought, the first time that's happened since late April. "Abnormally dry' is what the Drought Monitor uses to describe areas on the fringes of drought. This week's Drought Monitor shows a fraction...
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