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Storms Get Headlines, but Drought Is a Sneaky, Devastating Game-Changer
2014-07-15 16:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: If droughts were hurricanes, people might pay more attention to them. Droughts can creep up on us with their prolonged absence of rain, and their effects often are seen as not much more than cracked ground in dry lake bottoms. Devastating storms can be sudden and meteorologically exciting, and they make great television. Droughts are deliberate-a relatively slow evolution in which it can be difficult to capture the devastation in any one moment. Yet droughts affecting several Western states and...
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Huntington Lake summer fun drying up in California drought
2014-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The water dropped another 2 feet the week of Don Winters' vacation. Huntington Lake was at about a third of its normal level. An island in the middle of the lake - a mini-hilltop of wildflowers that in other summers he'd paddled to in a canoe - was connected to shore by a bridge of land. It was a quick stroll from the new shoreline, now in the middle of where there used to be water. But Winters, 65, never considered canceling his High Sierra vacation because of three years of California...
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To relieve drought in California, strong El Nio is needed
2014-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate News: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday said again that El Nio, a warming of temperatures in the Pacific, is 80 percent likely to strike this winter--though how intense it could get is still unclear. That uncertainty leaves a critical question unanswered: Could El Nio bring to America the same heavy rainfall this year that it has in the past? Nowhere is the need for an answer more acute than in California, where extreme drought covers 80 percent of the state and water...
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El Nio Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
2014-07-10 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security. Scientists at the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies (INETER) say the situation is correlated with the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a weather cycle that periodically causes drought on the western Pacific seaboard and the centre of the country, in contrast...
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Drought forces Texas city to treat, recycle water for drinking
2014-07-10 07:14:08| Waste Management - Topix.net
As much of Texas deals with lingering drought, a second city in the Lone Star State has begun reusing treated wastewater in a state-approved recycling process to bolster drinking supplies.
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