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People, crops and fish suffer in China heat wave
2013-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Record-breaking temperatures have been searing large swaths of China, resulting in dozens of heat-related deaths and prompting authorities to issue a national alert. People are packing into swimming pools or taking refuge in caves in their attempts to escape the fierce temperatures. Local governments are resorting to cloud-seeding technology to try to bring rain to millions of acres of parched farmland. The worst of the smoldering heat wave has been concentrated in the south and east of the country,...
Bacon fries on pavement as heat wave grips China
2013-08-01 14:37:25| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: It's been so hot in China that folks are grilling shrimp on manhole covers, eggs are hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by itself. The heat wave the worst in at least 140 years in some parts has left dozens of people dead and pushed thermometers above 40 degrees C (104 F) in at least 40 cities and counties, mostly in the south and east. Authorities for the first time have declared the heat a "level 2" weather emergency a label normally invoked for...
China issues heat alert as 'hottest July' hits Shanghai
2013-08-01 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: emperatures in parts of China have hit record highs, prompting an emergency level-two nationwide heat alert for the first time. In Shanghai, at least 10 people have died from heatstroke, as the city experiences its hottest July in 140 years, reports say. Local journalists have demonstrated the heat by frying meat on the pavement. The national heat alert covers nine provinces, including Anhui, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Shanghai and Chongqing. According to figures from the Shanghai Meteorological...
Heat wave kills people, crops and hopes in S China
2013-07-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: Wang Enda knows his harvest this year will be meager. The 58-year-old farmer in Haohuahong, a village in Guizhou province, sowed tens of thousands of corn seeds on his hectare of land in spring, but only a third of them sprouted due to the severe drought. What is worse is that all his hot peppers and grapes, which were supposed to bring him handsome returns, withered amid the drought that is sweeping through at least nine provinces and regions. "I'm not looking forward to the harvest," Wang said...
Energizer Personal Care Feels the Heat of Competition
2013-07-31 07:00:00| Happi Breaking News
Q3, nine-month sales show decreases due to the marketplace.
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