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Withering drought still plaguing half of America
2013-04-05 12:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The $50 billion drought that bedeviled the country last summer - the worst since the Dust Bowl of the 1930's - still has its fingers around half the country. And if predictions are to be believed, its only going to get worse for many in the coming months. Weekly drought figures released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor, a joint project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the USDA, and several other government and academic partners, show the situation has worsened slightly...
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Another Summer of Drought Looms for Texas and West
2013-04-04 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The outlook for the western half of the U.S. continued to be bleak on Thursday, as forecasters said drought conditions are expected to expand and intensify all across the West and Southwest. And Texas, which has been in the throes of drought for the better part of two years, may be hardest hit as its bone-dry conditions are expected to continue into summer, leading to shortages of drinking water. An update to the Seasonal Drought Outlook released Thursday forecasts drought to intensify in southern...
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In A Drought, Water Woes Abound
2013-04-04 17:06:00| Beef
In a drought, it seems that things cascade upon themselves to make matters worse. Take water, for instance. While quantity is one of the most immediate concerns, quality may be a limiting factor that can sneak up and make a bad situation that much worse. read more
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The Drought Is Drying Up All Our Ethanol
2013-04-03 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: After getting slammed last summer, ethanol producers are hoping to catch a break--but their fate is far from settled. Bill Pracht has bad memories of last summer. "The drought was so bad here that the corn was just decimated," he recalls of the farm country around Garnett, Kan., where he oversees East Kansas Agri-Energy, an ethanol plant. "Many fields were zero." In August, corn prices hit their highest level ever, driven mainly by the severe drought that crippled America`s corn belt. By October,...
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Canada Turns Its Back on International Drought Treaty
2013-04-03 04:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The Government of Canada is quietly withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, UNCCD, the only legally binding international treaty that addresses desertification, land degradation and drought. The decision of Stephen Harper`s Conservative Government, which is still unannounced on the government`s website, makes Canada the only country in the world outside the agreement. The federal cabinet last week ordered the withdrawal on the recommendation of Foreign Affairs Minister...
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