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El Nio Upsets Seasons, and Upends Lives, Worldwide
2016-03-19 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In rural villages in Africa and Asia, and in urban neighborhoods in South America, millions of lives have been disrupted by weather linked to the strongest El Nio in a generation. In some parts of the world, the problem has been not enough rain; in others, too much. Downpours were so bad in Paraguays capital, Asunción, that shantytowns sprouted along city streets, filled with families displaced by floods. But farmers in India had the opposite problem: Reduced monsoon rains forced them off the...
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