Posts Tagged with ‘Drought’
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Food, Floods and Drought
07 Feb 2011Krugman looks at Egypt, food prices and the fast changing world climate: We’re in the midst of a global food…
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Another Day Another Record
28 Sep 2010113º! California’s blistering fall heat wave sent temperatures to an all-time record high of 113 degrees Monday in downtown Los…
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Drought in the Amazon
26 Sep 2010* * * Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, and the entire eastern region of the state are suffering…
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Coho Salmon Disappear
10 Jan 2009“The lack of rain this winter has contributed to what fisheries biologists say is, so far, the worst return of…
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California Fire News Improving
12 Jul 2008Buried away in section B of the Chron, after weeks of front page headlines, was the news that the three…
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Big Sur: A Smoking Ruins
04 Jul 2008More photos of Big Sur. Everybody is on the way out. The blaze had swept within a half mile of…
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More and More Fires in CA
22 Jun 2008Wildfires were scattered around Northern California on Sunday in the heart of wine country and in remote forests, the latest…
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More Fires in CA
21 Jun 2008Just when the big Santa Cruz mountain fire died down, another further north started up. When it was under control…
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Water.Not.
01 May 2008“California just came through its driest March-April rain period – 2.3 inches of precipitation in the Sierra – since records…
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Bay Area Water
24 Apr 2008Water isn’t only an issue for those who have long depended on glacier melt [see below] or those who live…
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Cyprus Rainfall Has Fallen by about 20 percent over the past 35 years.
21 Apr 2008Drought-hit Cyprus to ship water from Greece NICOSIA, April 21 (Reuters) – Cyprus, facing its worst drought in a decade,…
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Lake Mead: 13 Years to Run Your Boats
13 Feb 2008Lake Mead could not be described as my favorite place on earth, but it is the take-out for many of…
