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California Droughts Could Have Dangerous Ripple Effects
2014-12-31 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Epic droughts like the one gripping California for three years now may become more frequent in the future due to climate change, according to new research. This will not only strain the drinking-water supplies for California's 38 million people, but will also induce a cascade of other hazards including fires, floods and poor water quality as populations continue to grow statewide, scientists say. Despite heavy rains this month, 78 percent of California is still experiencing either exceptional...
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We can't let climate change turn droughts, flash floods and mudslides into the new normal
2014-12-18 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Between power outages, deluging rains, flash floods, mudslides and record droughts, California is quickly becoming unrecognizable all the bellwethers of an ecosystem out of whack. Thanks to a rapidly changing climate making wet regions wetter and dry regions drier, 2014 will be the hottest year on record and, if were not careful, the Bay Areas recent #HellaStorm will soon become the norm. Everyone in the state knows the severity of the problem: were in the midst of our worst drought in...
'Creeping humanitarian crisis' in Central America? Droughts lead crop loss
2014-12-17 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On Friday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that 2.5 million people in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador had been forced into conditions of food insecurity. The drought in the three countries is turning into a creeping humanitarian crisis, Jens Laerke, spokesman for the UNs humanitarian agency, told reporters in Geneva. Subsistence farmers, farm labourers and low-income families were especially at risk, with young children and pregnant...
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We could see more and more hot droughts like Californias
2014-12-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FiveThirtyEight: Last week, Californias dry spell got a temporary reprieve thanks to an onslaught of Pacific storms. But the storms wont be enough to turn back the states drought - one that, researchers say, is the regions worst in the last 1,200 years. Californias drought began in late 2011 and rapidly intensified. Reservoirs stand empty, and as of this month, the U.S. Drought Monitor has classified conditions in 79.7 percent of the state as being in extreme or exceptional drought. To compare the...
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Where Grass Is Greener, a Push to Share Droughts Burden
2014-11-30 03:05:37| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In these hills overlooking San Diego, the only indication of the continuing drought now among the worst in Californias recorded history is the perpetually cloudless sky. Private lemon groves hark back to the areas agricultural past, before it became home to some of Southern Californias wealthiest residents; horses roam through grassy pastures; palatial homes are surrounded by rolling grass lawns and, in at least one case, a three-hole putting green owned by the golfer Phil Mickelson. And...
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