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California's drought could continue for centuries
2016-09-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KPCC: If you were hoping for a respite from California's drought (on its fifth year), you may be disappointed. That's because, according to a new study out of UCLA, published in the journal Nature, California's drought could continue for centuries. "The conditions we've had for the past five years very very high temperatures and relatively low precipitation that could well be the way that we'll see out the 21st century," said Glen MacDonald, who authored the study. "Our research suggests that in the...
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These Are the Forgotten Victims of the West's Drought
2016-09-18 04:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Last summer Nevada was so dry that rancher Darryl Brady grabbed a shovel and hacked into a dusty pit, once a lush spring that gurgled onto fields thick with wild hay. The snows hadn't come to the mountains and the river was dry, so Brady was desperately trying to tap into the earth's watery veins to save his herd of about 85 cattle. But it was a failure; the earth had no water to give. "I remember when I was a kid it would rain and we used to have puddles out here," Brady said wistfully. "These...
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Study: Future drought will offset benefits of higher CO2 on soybean yields
2016-09-05 10:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scienmag: An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations will boost plant growth under ideal growing conditions, but drought -- expected to worsen as the climate warms and rainfall patterns change -- will outweigh those benefits and cause yield losses much sooner than anticipated. (See video) The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature Plants, contradicts a...
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Ivory Coast cocoa farmers seek gold in face of drought
2016-09-04 07:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Today: nce a cocoa planter, Ferdinand Konan Yao has joined the ranks of fellow farmers who have abandoned Ivory Coast`s top cash crop to work in clandestine gold mines buried deep in the plantations. "It hasn`t rained for more than five years and cocoa`s no longer worth anything," said Yao, sporting a cowboy hat. Ivory Coast is the world`s leading cocoa exporter but it is the prospect of striking gold that is luring diggers from neighbouring Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea. They come to seek their...
Wildfire concern continues in drought regions
2016-09-01 15:54:00| Beef
USDA So far this year, more than 4 million acres have been burned from more than 40,000 wildfires in the U.S. Whats the outlook as summer morphs into fall? read more
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