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Amid drought, mystery disease kills Zimbabwe's baobabs
2016-07-04 05:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A black baobab tree stands forlornly on the side of a highway in Chimanimani district, in the east of Zimbabwe. The tree is one of many in this region afflicted by a mysterious disease, which turns the baobabs black before they lose their branches and die. The giant trees, which dwarf their more common acacia and mopani neighbours in this dry part of the country, have long been revered as a way to survive drought. Families cook and eat the leaves as a vegetable. The fruits can been eaten raw...
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Venezuela's Maduro ends power rationing as drought eases
2016-07-02 02:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Venezuela as of Monday will end an electricity rationing program launched in April in response to a severe drought that crimped the operations of the OPEC nation's hydroelectric generators, President Nicolas Maduro on Friday. Maduro's government had rationed electricity in the provinces, cut the work week for public employees to two days per week, and canceled school on Fridays to save power as the country's massive Guri dam dried up. "As of Monday we can say that the power administration plan...
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This Is What India's Devastating Drought Looks Like Up Close
2016-06-30 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: For years, Lakshman Pal, 28, planted wheat and tended to his small field here. Each season, he hoped for rain. He looked up at the sky and waited for the showers that normally came. But for the past two years, they've hardly come at all. His crops eventually withered and died, crumbling to dust. In early May, Pal returned from a spell of work in the distant state of Haryana, where he earned 250 rupees, or about $3.70, a day toiling long hours as a laborer. Fifteen other members of his family also...
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Drought threatens 'genius' regs that stopped L.A. water grab
2016-06-28 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: Despite being among the most protected salt lakes in the American West, Californias Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada may reach its lowest level in a decade due to to water management, climate change and drought. In 1941, Los Angeles came for the scenic lake here. After diverting the inflows to Owens Lake -- setting it on course for ruin -- the city extended its aqueduct 100 miles north in the eastern Sierra Nevada and captured virtually all of Mono Lake's tributaries. Like Owens Lake,...
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Drought Prompts Debate on Cubas Irrigation Problems
2016-06-28 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Five gargantuan modern irrigation machines water the state farm of La Yuraguana covering 138 hectares in the northeastern province of Holgun, the third largest province in Cuba. However, "sometimes they cannot even be switched on, due to the low water level," said farm manager Edilberto Pupo. "The last three years have been very stressful due to lack of rainfall. We take our irrigation water from a reservoir that has practically run dry," Pupo told IPS. In 2008 La Yuraguana received new irrigation...
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