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Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought
2013-09-01 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Texas drought has left crops parched across the state, but the lack of water could have unintended benefits for South Texas farmers in one of the states longest-running agricultural battles. For the past two decades, the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation has conducted a program to eliminate the ubiquitous beetle, which punctures cotton pods to lay eggs that destroy the plants yield. By setting pheromone traps to detect weevils, spraying chemicals to eliminate them and changing farming...
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Drought Forces Restrictions On Colorado River Water Releases
2013-08-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Relentless drought will force the government to cut back on water releases between Glen Canyon and Lake Mead. It's the first time that's happened since dams were built on the Colorado River. Reduction starts next year, and the announcement gives the 40 million water users in the Southwest time to plan.
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India: Kashmiri Farmers Unprepared for Drought
2013-08-16 09:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Zareena Bano has had to skip school 17 times this year to help out on her family's farm in Tangchekh village in the northern Indian state of Kashmir. Her teachers say she has the potential to be a brilliant student, but warn that if she keeps missing school she will not go far. Never before has the 15-year-old had to sacrifice her education in order to support her family, but an acute water crisis in this Himalayan state has made irrigation a constant worry and severely disrupted the way of...
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Climate Change May Be Easing Devastating 2012 Drought
2013-08-15 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Early this week, when Colorado State Climatologist Nolan Doesken toured an area of southeast Colorado hit hardest by the drought of 2012, he was greeted with a vast expanse of parched farmland that had turned into a moonscape with almost no vegetation. That area along the Arkansas River hadn't seen much rainfall in nearly three years, a long dry spell broken recently by a series of torrential downpours, leaving the moonscape even more surreal. "Some of that moonscape was standing water from...
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Namibia drought: one in three at risk of malnutrition
2013-08-14 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One in three people in Namibia is at risk of malnutrition, the UN has warned, as the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa endures its worst drought for a generation. The government declared a state of emergency after the failure of crops in May and pledged $20m (13m) of relief for the worst-hit households. The Kunene region in the north has had no rain for two years, and families have been forced to sell livestock and migrate to cities in search of work. After a summer lacking rains and a...
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