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Somalia could face another famine due to delayed rains, insecurity
2014-05-05 21:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly a million people are in need of immediate food assistance in Somalia, where delayed rains, high food prices, and insecurity threaten a repeat of the 2011 famine that left 258,000 people dead. According to the UN's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), 857,000 Somalis need immediate assistance while over 200,000 children under five in the country are currently suffering from acute malnourishment. "The month of May remains critical during which, if rains fail, combined with sustained...
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Rise of Genghis Khan Linked to Unusual Rains in Mongolia
2014-03-12 17:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: A conventional historical narrative holds that the rise and expansion of the Mongol Empire -- first under Genghis Khan and, later, his progeny and successors -- were propelled by a deteriorating climate in the Mongolian steppe. Fleeing drought, the narrative runs, Ghengis Khan's Golden Horde pushed west, south and east in a bid for expansion that would someday form the world's largest contiguous empire. Indeed, climate records indicate that the arid, landlocked steppe was seized by decades of...
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Need flood insurance? You'll find out: 'Anywhere it rains, it can flood'
2014-02-18 22:10:00| Real Estate - Topix.net
EUGENE, Ore. Change is coming in the way homeowners pay for flood insurance. FEMA will be releasing new flood zone maps in the next year or two.
Blessed Rains Become a Curse in Antigua
2014-02-17 22:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Antigua is one of the most drought-prone countries in the Caribbean. So whenever it rains, the inhabitants generally regard the weather as "showers of blessing". But that is starting to change. Many farmers now see the rains as a curse and are now fighting an uphill battle to save their crops, vital for both the local and foreign markets."The yield and lifespan [of crops in a greenhouse] basically are three times as much as open-field production." -- Delrie Cole "We are a drought-prone country,"...
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El Nio Could Bring Rains To Cattle Country
2014-02-17 21:49:00| Beef
Alan Newport for Beef Producer The Pacific Ocean is warming off the U.S. coast and implying we could return to the El Nio phase of the El Nio-Southern Oscillation cycle, commonly called ENSO by meteorologists. read more
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