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Indias worst drought in 50 years is shutting down farms, hospitals, and schools
2016-04-27 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: India is suffering. In the midst of the worst drought it has seen in half a century, some 330 million people are currently affected, reports the government. The scarcity is so severe that schools, farms, and even hospitals cannot function - doctors don`t have enough water to wash their hands - and many people are leaving their homes in search of water. To combat shortages, the government has started shipping water across the country via trains, but it`s not enough. In one of the most devastated...
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Drought killing next year's sugar crop
2016-04-03 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
REUTERS: Prasert Jitkham stoops down and pulls a yellowed sugar cane shoot from baked soil. The worst drought in more than 20 years `has killed the plant he should harvest next year. The El Nino weather phenomenon has played havoc with crops across Southeast Asia and beyond. Thailand, the world's second-largest sugar exporter, will ship 20% less of the sweetener to international markets this year than last, and farmers fear the damage already inflicted on young cane plants could make next year worse. ...
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New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe
2015-11-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chronicling the impact in a geographically restricted area. Now, for the first time, an atlas based on scientific evidence provides the big picture, using tree rings to map the reach and severity of dry and wet periods across Europe, and parts of North Africa and the Middle East, year to year over the past 2,000 years. Together with two previous drought...
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After Years of Drought, Wildfires Rage in California
2015-07-16 12:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Lake Fire started just before 4 p.m. on June 17. If rain and snow had arrived as scheduled in the winter, it might have been done in a day, at a cost of just a few acres. But with the drought turning soil to dust and trees to tinder, the fire, still smoking, has consumed a swath of national forest roughly the size of San Francisco. It has become the first big wildfire of a California season that threatens to become a terror. Between Jan. 1 and July 11, California fire officials have responded...
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Worst Drought 1,000 Years Predicted American West
2015-02-12 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Large parts of the U.S. are in for a drought of epic proportions in the second half of this century, scientists warn in a new study that provides the highest degree of certainty yet on the impact of global warming on water supplies in the region. The chances of a 35-year or longer "megadrought" striking the Southwest and central Great Plains by 2100 are above 80 percent if the world stays on its current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions, scientists from NASA, Columbia University, and Cornell...
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