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Drought Led to Collapse of Civilizations, Study Says
2013-10-24 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: What happened about 3,200 years ago to bring about the collapse of not just one but a number of flourishing civilizations on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean? A study of fossilized pollen particles taken from sediments at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee may have solved an intriguing historical mystery that has been troubling archaeologists for decades. "In a short period of time, the entire world of the Bronze Age crumbled," says Israel Finkelstein, an archaeologist at the Institute...
The United States of drought
2013-10-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage. By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year - 10 times the amount of water used by the desert-bound city of Las Vegas."If you go to the western U.S., people are still in that mindset of trying to withdraw as much water as they can, as long as they can pump faster than...
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Angola 'in denial' over impact of severe drought
2013-10-22 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Angolan government has been accused of being in denial over a drought that has affected 1.8 million people because the crisis threatens to tarnish the country's image as a booming economy. Children as young as nine are digging wells to fetch water, amid a severe drought in southern regions of Angola that has forced people to use unclean water for consumption and cooking, according to the UN. Neighbouring Namibia, which has also been badly affected, has declared a drought emergency and appealed...
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Cargill to close West Texas feedlot due to drought
2013-10-16 20:06:42| Food - Topix.net
The Plainview Daily Herald reported Tuesday that the Cargill, Inc. yard in Lockney will shut down next summer.
Molasses malaise deepens with drought
2013-10-14 08:46:50| Sugar Industry News
The sugar industry has defended its role in keeping up the supply of molasses to graziers feeding cattle in drought-stricken districts in Queensland.
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