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New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe
2015-11-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chronicling the impact in a geographically restricted area. Now, for the first time, an atlas based on scientific evidence provides the big picture, using tree rings to map the reach and severity of dry and wet periods across Europe, and parts of North Africa and the Middle East, year to year over the past 2,000 years. Together with two previous drought...
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California drought shrinks winter digs for migratory birds
2015-11-07 14:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: With their red heads, 7-foot (2.13 m) wingspan and a trilling call, migrating Sandhill Cranes provide a dramatic sunset spectacle as they land by the thousands in wetlands near Sacramento each night during the fall and winter. But the state's ongoing drought has left the cranes, along with millions of other waterfowl that migrate from Canada and other northern climes to spend the winter in California, with fewer places to land, threatening their health as they crowd in on one another to seek shelter...
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Autumn storms make small dent in California drought
2015-11-06 19:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fall storms that brought rain and snow to parts of California have made a small but measurable dent in the state's four-year drought, experts said. The storms dumped up to 3.5 inches of snow on the parched Sierra Nevada earlier this week and led the Mammoth Mountain ski resort to open two lifts at a time when most other ski areas are closed. The precipitation has put the state ahead of the normal rainfall for the season and nudged a few areas out of the worst drought designation, scientists at...
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Anthropogenic warming in west Pacific likely contributed to the 2014 drought in East Africa
2015-11-05 15:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: It comes as no surprise to geographer Chris Funk that East Africa has been particularly hard hit with back-to-back droughts this year and last. In fact, he and colleagues at the UC Santa Barbara /U.S. Geological Survey's Climate Hazards Group (CHG) predicted the area's 2014 event based the increasing differential between extremely warm sea surface temperatures in the west and central Pacific Ocean. Now with the same data set, CHG scientists have confirmed not only that this temperature differential...
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Global connections between El Nino events, drought
2015-11-03 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A team of researchers recently discovered that global climate change is causing general increases in both plant growth and potential drought risk. University of Montana Professor John Kimball is among the team of researchers who published an article on Oct. 30 about their study on Nature magazine's website titled "Vegetation Greening and Climate Change Promote Multidecadal Rises of Global Land Evapotranspiration." Their research shows that during the past 32 years there have been widespread increases...
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