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How Dust Might Make Drought Worse (or Bit Better) in California
2014-09-25 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Most of California's water comes from the snow stored in the Sierra Nevada each winter. In the spring, melting snow helps fill the state's reservoirs for the dry summer. (Read "When the Snows Fail" in National Geographic magazine.) As the state's historic drought drags on, scientists are watching the Sierra snow with intense interest-and they're worrying that even tiny airborne particles of dust may have a big effect on water supplies. Here's how: As California gets drier, it's getting dustier,...
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Fire and Drought Scar Brazilian Sugar Crop
2014-09-25 12:12:45| Sugar Industry News
SO PAULOSugar cane growers in Brazil's state of So Paulo are facing considerable losses, in terms of production and money, because of wildfires that are being exacerbated by a drought, sugar industry group Unica said on Tuesday
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Sugar-cane crop hit by long drought
2014-09-23 10:52:38| Sugar Industry News
Sugar-cane output from the Northeast this season is likely to fail to reach the projected 100 tonnes due to climate change, says the North Eastern Cane Planters' Association.
Huge California mudslide may have been triggered by drought
2014-09-22 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: California's three-year drought might have triggered Mount Shasta's worst mudslide in two decades which damaged hiking trails and forced two roads to close over the weekend, a national park spokeswoman said on Monday. Mud and debris began flowing down Mud Creek Canyon on the southeast side of Mt. Shasta, a 14,000-foot volcano about 50 miles south of the Oregon border, on Saturday afternoon and continued through the night, Shasta-Trinity National Park spokeswoman Andrea Capps said. "The woman...
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Amid Drought, New California Law Will Limit Groundwater Pumping for Fi
2014-09-17 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Despite California's reputation as an environmental policy leader, its regulation of groundwater extraction has long been among the weakest in the nation. That changed Tuesday, when California Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of three bills designed to regulate the pumping of water from underground aquifers. While many observers say the rules are too little and too late to protect the state's rapidly depleting aquifers, the new laws are still a major shift in a long-deadlocked political battle....
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