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U.S. drought easing slightly after week's rains
2013-04-18 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Drought conditions eased after storms moved across the central United States and the U.S. Plains in the past week, bringing much-needed moisture to some of the driest areas of the country, according to a report released on Thursday by state and federal climatologists. The Drought Monitor report, which tracks soil moisture on a weekly basis, said the Plains - the region hardest hit by the drought of 2012 - was seeing some relief from the drought. As of Tuesday, 73 percent of the region was in severe...
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Storms bring heavy snow, hail, rains to central U.S
2013-04-11 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: High winds and heavy snow and rain whipped through parts of the central United States on Wednesday, knocking out power for thousands of people and closing schools and businesses. There were reports of downed trees, flipped vehicles and structural damage from a potential tornado touching down in Arkansas, as storm watchers tracked a line of severe weather stretching from Arkansas through southeastern Missouri into Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. "It will be a long night in Arkansas for sure," said...
Spring rains bring life to Midwest granaries but foster Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone'
2013-04-10 01:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The most serious ongoing water pollution problem in the Gulf of Mexico originates not from oil rigs, as many people believe, but rainstorms and fields of corn and soybeans a thousand miles away in the Midwest. An expert on that problem -- the infamous Gulf of Mexico "Dead Zone' -- today called for greater awareness of the connections between rainfall and agriculture in the Midwest and the increasingly severe water quality problems in the gulf. Keynoting a symposium at the 245th National Meeting...
When It Rains, It Pours: Study Confirms Climate Change Will Keep Driving More Intense Precipitation
2013-04-07 16:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Think Progress: Climate change will bring more and more extreme precipitation events this century. A new study from NOAA`s National Climatic Data Center confirms what climate scientists have long been saying about climate change`s effect on the hydrological cycle. If you are not familiar with this term, you are certainly familiar with what it describes. As the sun warms the earth, water evaporates from oceans, lakes, and rivers, which then form clouds that produce rain and snow. More evaporation happens when...
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Pakistan: Record rains ease Islamabad's water shortage
2013-03-21 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Islamabad is enjoying abundant water supplies for the first time in a dozen years after record winter rainfall. But experts warn that reforestation and better water management are needed in the long term for the Pakistani capital's growing population. Musarat Aftab is exhilarated that after years of water shortages she will no longer have to do without a piped water supply, now that the dam that supplies Islamabad is filling. The 40-year-old beautician lives in a two-story house in Islamabad's...
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