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Major U.S. Breweries Work to Conserve Water Amid Widespread Drought
2014-06-12 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Major breweries in the U.S. are cutting back on the amount of water they use to brew beer as drought threatens their water supplies, the Associated Press reports. MillerCoors, headquartered in Chicago, has reduced its water use by 9.2 percent since 2012, a company sustainability report said. Earlier this month St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, reported that it has cut water use by 32 percent in the last five years. Employing strategies such as fueling boilers with wastewater,...
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Fourth year of drought hits Djibouti: U.N
2014-06-12 19:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Djibouti is suffering from a fourth straight year of drought, which has driven a huge exodus of people from rural areas to the capital and caused a surge in disease and malnutrition, the top U.N. official there said on Thursday. Robert Watkins, U.N. resident coordinator in Djibouti, was meeting officials from donor countries to seek funds for a U.N. appeal of $74 million for Djibouti this year, launched in May. The United Nations has received $9.5 million from donors so far. "The biggest issue...
Global Warming to Triple Frequency Drought, Floods Along Indian Ocean
2014-06-11 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: The frequency of extreme forms of a climate cycle that can cause devastating droughts and flood events from Indonesia to India to Kenya, may triple in the coming decades, according to a new study published Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, ties manmade global warming to shifts in the behavior of a naturally-occurring climate cycle, known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Like the Pacific Ocean, which gives rise to El Nio and La Nia events, the Indian Ocean has its own inherent...
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Northern California leaders ask for help in drought
2014-06-10 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With California facing its worst drought in decades, farmers, environmentalists and government officials begged lawmakers Monday to invest in projects to shore up the state's water supply. The demands from Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, The Nature Conservancy and Northern California water districts are an effort to help break a deadlock in the state legislature over how to prevent future water shortages. The demands range from environmental restoration work for rivers and wetlands to building...
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Drought Does not Hinder Pork, Chicken Consumption
2014-06-04 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AUSTRALIA – Pork and chicken meat consumption is on the rise as Australian shoppers buy less beef.
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