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California drought a 'train wreck' for Central Valley farms
2014-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chronicle: California's great Central Valley aquifer and the rivers that feed it, already losing water in the changing climate, are now being drained because of the drought, leaving water levels at their lowest in nearly a decade. Water experts say many farmers who depend on the huge water source beneath the valley for irrigation will have to resort to pumping water from ever deeper levels at greater costs, even as they plant crops on fewer and fewer acres as more of their land is gobbled up for development....
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US 'climate hubs' to save farms from extreme weather
2014-02-07 22:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The US government is creating seven new "climate hubs" that will help everyday people, particularly farmers, handle the effects of global warming. The hubs are essentially a combination of real-world and online networks that will operate out of the offices of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to connect existing government agencies more effectively. The hope is that the hubs will help minimise the harmful effects of climate change, such as excess storms and droughts, by helping scientists,...
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GE PowerUp software to enhance output of EDP Renewables US wind farms
2014-02-07 01:00:00| Power Technology
General Electric (GE) has won a contract from EDP Renewables to provide its Predictivity solution Wind PowerUp for five wind power plants in the US.
Mongolian Provinces to Have Pig Farms
2014-02-05 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
MONGOLIA - Pig-raising farms will be created in Darkhan-Uul and Orkhon aimags in this year.
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Protecting farms or front rooms? The impossible dilemma that climate change forces upon us
2014-02-04 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Statesman: At last, someone has said it. Chris Smith, chair of the Environment Agency, wrote in the Telegraph of the impossible dilemma facing Britain as climate change leads to ever-worsening flooding: "...This involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland? Flood defences cost money; and how much should the taxpayer be prepared to spend on different places, communities and livelihoods -- in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, or East Anglia? There's no bottomless...
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