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Funding drought curbs Australia's "food bowl to Asia" ambitions
2014-03-10 05:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's lofty ambitions to become a "food bowl" for a rapidly growing middle-class in Asia are in danger of falling at the farm gate due to the country's harsh, drought-prone climate and a lack of investment in agricultural innovation. The federal government has touted the food bowl plan as one way of diversifying the economy as a decade-long mining boom that brought the country riches wanes. But the industry says it has been left between a rock and a hard place - with state grants denied...
Robbins: Climate change & state's drought
2014-03-09 17:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Democrat: The east shore of Lake Berryessa is seen during a flight over the proposed Berryessa Snow Mountain Conservation Area. (Bill Husa/MediaNews Group file photograph)My friends in Iowa are digging cars and mailboxes out from under yet another snowstorm, so I don't get much sympathy when I report yet another dry day of sunshine and high 60s. But President Obama, recognizing the relationship of California's agricultural health to the nation's food prices, brought some welcome attention as well as financial...
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Drought hastens end of a region's hydropower era
2014-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The yearslong drought in Central Texas could eventually snuff out a renewable power source that fueled the regions early growth: hydropower. Faced with dwindling water supplies, the Lower Colorado River Authority, which supplies water and energy to much of Central Texas, is limiting downstream water releases for activities like rice farming. Aside from stirring controversy among water users, the changes have shrunk the amount of electricity the agency generates from its six Colorado River dams....
From Drought, To Drenching? El Nino Likely To Return With Torrential Rain
2014-03-08 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Warmer ocean temperatures off the California coast--and the massive impact on local and global climate--could be coming again, with predictions indicating an El Nio is possible this year. The expected conditions would lead to more rain this coming winter, lessening California`s drought, and the southern states` drought, plus a milder winter for the nation`s frigid northern states, and fewer Atlantic hurricanes. Mike Halpert, acting director of NOAA`s Climate Prediction Center, says the El...
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Middle East drought a threat to global food prices
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Middle East's driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers' livelihoods blighted, U.N. experts and climatologists say. Varying degrees of drought are hitting almost two thirds of the limited arable land across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Iraq. "Going back to the last 100 years, I don't think you can get a five-year span that's been as dry," said Mohammad Raafi Hossain, a U.N. Food and Agriculture...
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