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Fires and drought have transformed New Mexico forests
2014-08-31 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Las Cruces News: Gambel oak and other shrubs whose roots survived a lightning-sparked wildfire in 2013 sprout on many slopes once dominated by ponderosa pines. Black, mangled masses of wood and dead barley plants loom over the new growth, which also includes aspens, grass and wildflowers. The barley grew last fall from seeds the U.S. Forest Service dropped to minimize erosion after the Silver Fire. Pines survived in many areas within the 139,000-acre burn scar. But in other places, the trees were incinerated --...
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Drought conditions cause record years fSouthern Calif lifeguards
2014-08-30 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Telegram: The endless summer. Thats what lifeguards are calling the past 12 months. As the hot and dry weather parches the state, people are fleeing to the beach. Southern California guards are rescuing swimmers at record levels. Beaches are hitting capacity. Unusually warm water and large swells have amplified the crowds and danger. Guards are manning the towers more, even during typically mellow months, and taxpayers must cover a burgeoning overtime bill. Los Angeles County beaches in 2014 saw...
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California Drought Threatens Nation's Most Productive Farming Valley
2014-08-30 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: In the rich farmland of the San Joaquin Valley it's summertime , peak growing season for many crops. But every sunbaked, scorching day brings another test of water reserves in a region running on empty. The dearth of irrigation water from rivers or reservoirs has forced growers in the valley 80 miles north of Los Angeles to rely almost entirely on water pumped from wells. "I'm worried from a couple of standpoints," said grower Stuart Woolf, as he stood in a field of tomatoes at harvest time....
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Drought leaves up to 2.81 million hungry in Central America
2014-08-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A severe drought has ravaged crops in Central America and as many as 2.81 million people are struggling to feed themselves, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday, though the region's coffee crop has been largely unscathed. The drought, which is also affecting South America, has been particularly hard on the so-called "dry corridor" of Central America, which includes southern Guatemala, northern Honduras and western El Salvador. "The drought has killed us. We lost all...
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Australia: Drought and floods: what's coming next?
2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mail: The devastating floods in Queensland may be subsiding, but the weather pattern that caused it is not over - and Sydney could be in the firing line. Sydney's last major floods were in 1986 and 1988, said the Bureau of Meteorology. In the Liverpool region in 1986, water levels for the Georges River reached the major flood level of 4 metres while in the North Richmond area in 1986 and 1988, the Hawkesbury River peaked at 12.8 and 14.4 metres, high above the 11-metre major flood level. In 1986...
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