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Why the world is parched and how to solve the shortage
2015-07-16 20:38:00| Beef
Eight trillion gallons of water per year — 12 million acre-feet — for more than three years. read more
Ranchers defy U.S. in grazing parched Nevada lands, environmentalists say
2015-06-04 04:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Nevada ranch defied U.S. drought closure orders in grazing cattle on federally managed land, environmentalists said on Wednesday, comparing it to action by another Nevada rancher that led to an armed standoff last year with federal agents. The ranchers in the Battle Mountain area in northern Nevada let their livestock graze on Tuesday at the North Buffalo allotment managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the Western Watersheds Project said in a statement. "The ranchers generate public sympathy...
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Dry, warm conditions keep California national forests parched
2015-04-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Warmer temperatures are rapidly drying out the state, he said. California had its second-warmest March since record-keeping began in 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The first three months of this year were the warmest on record in 136 years for the globe, according to NOAA. The mortality of the national forest is further complicated by the invasion of bark beetles, he said. The tiny brown insects chew away at the pines, making them brittle and transforming...
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Warming ocean temperatures may not bring rain to parched California
2014-09-05 02:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Pacific Ocean phenomenon called El Nino, which can lead to storms in the U.S. Southwest and other places, will likely start soon, but may not bring hoped-for relief to drought-parched California, U.S. government meteorologists said on Thursday. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a report the likelihood was increasing that El Nino, characterized by a warming of the ocean temperature in the eastern Pacific near the equator, would be weak this year. A...
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Record-Setting Drought Intensifies Parched California
2014-08-01 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The relentless heat that has plagued the western half of the country this summer has ratcheted up California's terrible drought once again, bringing it to record levels. More than half of the state is in "exceptional' drought, the highest category recognized by the U.S. Drought Monitor, which released its latest update on Thursday. The progression of the drought in California through the spring and summer of 2014, as the two highest categories, extreme and exceptional drought, grew. "The heat...
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