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Drought Still Threatens Mississippi River
2013-01-10 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Discovery News: A new year has started, but last year's drought is still afflicting the United States. The latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows nearly 73 percent of the contiguous U.S. is still in drought. Rain has slaked the thirst of parts of the Northeast and Southeast, but dry conditions expanded in other regions. The southern Mississippi Valley recently received rainy relief as a belated Christmas present, but the northern stretches of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and their headwaters remained...
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Hundreds of US counties labeled disaster areas due to drought
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: Hundreds of U.S. counties labeled disaster areas due to drought - CNN.com SET EDITION: U.S. INTERNATIONAL MÉXICO ARABIC TV: CNN CNNi CNN en Espaol HLN Sign up Log in Home TV & Video CNN Trends U.S. World Politics Justice Entertainment Tech Health Living Travel Opinion iReport Money Sports Sports Bleacher Report Sports Illustrated Print Email More sharing Hundreds of U.S. counties labeled disaster areas due to drought By CNN Staff updated 8:25 PM EST, Wed...
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USDA declares drought disaster in much of Wheat Belt
2013-01-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The government declared much of the central and southern Wheat Belt a natural disaster area on Wednesday due to persistent drought that imperils this year's winter wheat harvest. In its first disaster declaration of the new year, the Agriculture Department made growers in large portions of four major wheat-growing states - Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas - eligible for low-interest emergency loans. The four states grew one-third of the U.S. wheat crop last year. Kansas was the No. 1 state...
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Drought, La Nina Produce Record Heat in 2012
2013-01-09 15:42:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Associated Press America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012, according to an Associated Press report. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That's a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998. Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so. read more
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New Doubt Cast on Link Between Global Warming and Increased Drought
2013-01-09 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: There have been devastating droughts in the past few years in places like Africa, Australia, and the United States. Last summer, the drought in the central US caused the loss of massive crops and a major economic hit for the country. The seemingly increasing prevalence of droughts has some announcing the effects of climate change coming to fruition. However, a new study from researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey and the Australian National University in Canberra has cast doubt on this...
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