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USDA allocates $21 million to help farmers, ranchers battle drought
2015-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: A branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will provide $21 million to help farmers and ranchers in California and other states install new irrigation systems, plant cover crops and implement other water conservation practices, officials said Monday. The funds, made possible by the 2014 farm bill, will be distributed to the most severely drought-stricken areas of eight states, as determined by the U.S. Drought Monitor. It is not clear how much of the money will go to California, but in...
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Low Snowpack Raising Drought Concerns Oregon & Washington
2015-05-18 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: While drought conditions in California and the southwestern U.S. have been dominating news headlines, Oregon and Washington could also soon be facing dangerously dry conditions due to low snowpack levels, as these photos show. Although the region has seen several months with average or just-below average precipitation, unusually warm temperatures on land and offshore led to most of that moisture arriving in the form of rain rather than snow. Like many parts of the western U.S. and Canada, the Pacific...
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5 Signs the California Drought Could Get Worse
2015-05-18 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: California is entering its fourth year of drought, with high temperatures, water shortages and increased wildfires. The state has taken some steps to address the impacts of that, including addressing greenhouse gas emissions and rationing its diminishing water supply. But there are signs that the impacts of drought on the state could get even worse. 1. A new study shows that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, some parts of Los Angeles area could be experiencing temperatures...
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Washington State Declares Drought Emergency
2015-05-18 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Drought isn't just a California problem, folks. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a statewide drought emergency on Friday, with snowpack and stream flows dramatically below normal. Were really starting to feel the pain from this snowpack drought," Inslee said at a press conference. "Impacts are already severe in several areas of the state. Difficult decisions are being made about what crops get priority water and how best to save fish. ... We have some tough, challenging months ahead of us....
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Disappearing Lake Powell underlines drought facing Colorado river
2015-05-17 16:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Colorado river and its tributaries took a hundred million years or two to carve the Glen Canyon out of the pink and scarlet sandstone which marks out the American southwest. Its myriad gorges, sheer cliffs and towering spires remain ed largely hidden. Prehistoric peoples farmed part of the canyon and Navajo Indian communities built camps close to the river, but few modern Americans ventured there besides explorers until they disappeared under a man-made wonder, the vast Lake Powell, with the...
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