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California Drought Caused Plants To Evolve In Just Seven Years

2016-04-13 15:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bing: Field mustard, a subspecies of Brassica rapa, a species of plants that includes napa cabbage, turnips, and bok choy. We usually think of evolution as a long, laborious process, stretching over hundreds if not thousands of years. But sometimes, it happens much more quickly. In a paper published today in Molecular Ecology researchers announced that they found genetic differences between the ancestors and descendants of two separate populations of field mustard both of which evolved during the...

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Enduring Somalia drought puts hundreds of thousands at risk, UN warns

2016-04-13 15:09:09| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

IRIN: The severe drought in Ethiopia has made headline news. But it has also scorched northern Somalia a region far less able to cope with the impact. Some 385,000 people are already facing a hunger crisis in self-declared independent Somaliland and semi-autonomous Puntland, further to the east. The UNs emergency aid coordination body, OCHA, says an estimated 1.7 million people, nearly 40 percent of the 4.6 million people living in these areas, are in need of humanitarian assistance and livelihood...

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United States: Drought threatens California despite El Nino

2016-04-13 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AFP: Last winter, El Nino-driven storms dumped much-needed snow and rain over California, boosting reservoir levels and fuelling hopes the parched state's four-year drought might end. But despite the brief respite, experts say the record drought is here to stay. The El Nino weather phenomenon -- caused when a rise in the Pacific Ocean's temperature triggers intense precipitation -- has provided only "a band-aid on a gaping wound,' says Julien Emile-Geay, a paleoclimatologist at the University of...

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China to release more water to alleviate Southeast Asia drought

2016-04-12 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: China will release more water from a dam in its southwestern province of Yunnan to help alleviate a drought in parts of Southeast Asia, China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, following an initial release begun last month. The water already began being released on Monday from the Jinghong dam, and will continue to be released until the "low water period" is over, ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily news briefing. The actual amount of water released will be decided upon by how much water...

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