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California's Drought Ripples Through Businesses And Even Schools
2014-04-20 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Cannon Michael runs an 11,000-acre farm in California's Central Valley. His family has been farming in the state for six generations. Michael's multi-million-dollar operation usually provides a wealth of crops including tomatoes, onions and melons. But recently, he's pretty pessimistic about work. "It is going to be a year that's probably, at best, maybe break even. Or maybe lose some money," Michael tells NPR's Arun Rath. Michael says about one-fifth of the land will lie fallow this year. So...
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Colorado River Water Managers Consider Plans for Extended Drought
2014-04-16 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The severe risks of an extended drought in the Colorado River Basin--a shutdown of hydropower generation, functionally empty lakes and restrictions on water use--are forcing the basins seven states to consider unprecedented changes in how they manage a scarce resource. Still in the earliest stages of negotiation, two remedies have emerged, both of which seek to fortify Lake Powell, the nations second largest reservoir, and preserve its capacity to generate electricity and supply water to the...
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Bombshell: Study Ties Epic California Drought, Frigid East To Manmade Climate Change
2014-04-16 14:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Natural variability alone cannot explain the extreme weather pattern that has driven both the record-setting California drought and the cooler weather seen in the Midwest and East this winter, a major new study finds. We`ve reported before that climate scientists had predicted a decade ago that warming-driven Arctic ice loss would lead to worsening drought in California. In particular, they predicted it would lead to a "blocking pattern" that would shift the jet stream (and the rain it could bring)...
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Climate fear over Colombia drought
2014-04-15 01:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The rotting corpses of dead cows and wild capybaras line the road that leads from Paz de Ariporo to Hato Las Taparas in the Colombian province of Casanare. At least 20,000 animals, including wild pigs, deer, small crocodiles and tortoises have died of thirst during a catastrophic dry season in this central region. And many fear this year's drought is only heralding a future of increasingly harsh summers and even more severe water shortages in Colombia's plains. Dry as bone "Here we have...
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California drought gives boost to anti-fracking movement
2014-04-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: California is known for the twin threat of natural disasters from drought and earthquakes, with both phenomena certain to give many residents serious concern. But there is one group that is starting to reap serendipitous marketing ammunition from the states current historic drought and the ever-present worry of ground-shaking tremors: the anti-fracking movement. California faces two interlinked crises, a water crisis and a climate crisis, and fracking makes both of these problems worse,...
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