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How Dust Could Solve California's Drought
2014-08-14 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: With 80 percent of California in a state of extreme drought, you wouldn't think dust would be the answer to the state's water woes. New research presented in San Francisco yesterday suggests, however, that dusty air blown across the Pacific Ocean from Asia and Africa could be influencing precipitation in the region. In a presentation at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society yesterday, Kim Prather from the University of California, San Diego, described research she is leading into...
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AUSTRALIA: Cotton yield to slump if no break in drought
2014-08-14 12:41:55| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Australia's cotton industry is anticipating a significantly reduced yield in the 2014/15 harvest if the ongoing drought in the country's cotton-growing regions does not ease.
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Climate change and drought in ancient times
2014-08-12 10:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Heritage Daily: The influence of climate on agriculture is believed to be a key factor in the rise and fall of societies in the Ancient Near East. Dr. Simone Riehl of Tübingen Universitys Institute for Archaeological Science and the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment has headed an investigation into archaeological finds of grain in order to find out what influence climate had on agriculture in early farming societies. Her findings are published in this weeks PNAS Proceedings of the...
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Q&A: Sen. Boxer on climate change, California drought
2014-08-10 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: Sen. Barbara Boxer, who leads the Environment and Public Works Committee, is on a trip to Amsterdam focusing on climate change. She is visiting the Dutch capital to see the city's adaptation techniques for coping with sea level rise, as well as to learn about the progress the city has made in moving toward clean energy to address climate change. Boxer, a Democrat from Rancho Mirage, was unavailable for a phone interview while traveling. But she responded by email to questions from The Desert Sun...
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In California, record heat adding to extreme drought
2014-08-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Desert Sun: Reservoirs have been shrinking, aquifers have been declining, and an estimated 5 percent of the state's irrigated farmland, from the Central Valley to Southern California, has been left dry and withering. In the Coachella Valley, water agencies are responding to the state's mandatory water restrictions with new rules such as limiting lawn-watering times and outlawing front-yard car washes with hoses. The drought's impact is apparent on the outskirts of Palm Springs, where a network of 19 groundwater...
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