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California faces the worst drought on record while exporting water to China
2014-02-19 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: California is experiencing its worst drought in a century, which is putting at risk the survival of many species and damaging the economy. Experts have warned that the lack of rainfall has already dried 95% of wetlands in California, causing the death or migration of many animal and bird species. As the availability of watery spots decreases, waterfowl and other animals are forced to converge to the few that remain intact, increasing the threat of spreading parasites and diseases more easily....
California fights drought with big data, cloud computing
2014-02-19 14:16:27| InfoWorld: Top News
California is facing its worst drought in more than 100 years, and one with no end in sight. Conserving water has never been more important, and Silicon Valley has an opportunity to offer technological solutions to the problem. Consider, for example, the approach the East Bay Municipal Utility District took to encouraging customers to reduce water consumption.
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Drought Aided the Spread of Typhus
2014-02-18 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: By combining epidemiological data with climate data, researchers at the University of Arkansas were able to provide evidence that drought contributed to the spread of epidemic typhus in Mexico from 1655 to 1918. Typhus, not to be confused with typhoid fever, can cause delirium, severe muscle pain, joint pain, rash, fever and headache. The mortality rate is estimated between 10 percent and 60 percent for the typhus strain studied, according to the US National Library of Medicine. The study, published...
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Australia: Climate trends demand better response to drought, says CSIRO
2014-02-18 03:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia needs a better response to drought in the face of climate trends that will transform agricultural regions and see many farms disappear, the CSIRO has warned. The governments science agency said that observed changes in rainfall are occurring at a more rapid rate than was previously predicted. These changes could see a continuing trend of farm closures and shift farming towards wetter coastal areas. Tony Abbott has just completed a listening tour of drought-affected areas of Queensland...
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Tony Abbott leaves climate change out of his drought relief calculation
2014-02-17 04:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It seems obvious, but apparently it isnt. If you remove the reality of climate change from government decision-making you risk making the wrong decisions. Obviously the drought is causing extreme hardship for farmers in parts of New South Wales and Queensland and the government is about to announce a package of short-term measures to assist them. But surely long-term drought policy needs to take into account the evidence that climate change means rainfall patterns are changing and that also...
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