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China: Pastoralists still roam marginalized and drought ravaged regions
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Xinhua: Nomads have for decades wondered for and wide in search of water and pasture for their most precious "assets" livestock. But with global warming and the changing climate taking toll in major economic activities across the globe, pastoralists have had their fair share for the past four years, northern region has experienced one of its most droughts in decades. Thousands of animals have been lost through the revenging drought rendering some of the headers destitute. During the period, pasture...
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Volunteers come to aid tornado ravaged Wessington Springs
2014-06-25 00:01:49| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
More than 100 people are helping clean up tornado damage in Wessington Springs. Monday was the first day volunteers were allowed into the town where the tornado damaged dozens of homes and businesses on June 18. Mayor Melissa Mebius says all homeowners who lost their homes have found places to stay.
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'I am Earth, ravaged by climate change'
2014-02-08 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: Last year's Uttarakhand catastrophe, heavy rains in Gujarat, the typhoon in Philippines and the freezing of Niagara Falls in the US and the Danube River in Europe - are these the result of global warming? All these and other mysteries about the environment will be dealt with in India's first 'feature film' on climate change - It's Tomorrow' - written by non-resident Gujarati, Dr Rajeshkumar Acharya, who currently lives in the US. It is directed by Zanane Rajsingh, who was born in Nagpur but studied...
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Report: Obama's ethanol policy has ravaged the environment
2013-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: When President Barack Obama gave a major policy speech on reducing greenhouse gases last June, he didn't once mention ethanol, an alcohol-based fuel distilled from fermented corn. Biofuels in general which are extracted from plant or animal matter received a brief, passing reference. But when the Iowa political caucuses were on the horizon in 2007, thenpresidential candidate Obama made homegrown corn a centerpiece of his plan to slow global warming. And when former President George W. Bush...
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Drought that ravaged US crops likely to worsen in 2013, forecast warns
2013-03-21 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The historic drought that laid waste to America's grain and corn belt is unlikely to ease before the middle of this year, a government forecast warned on Thursday. The annual spring outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted hotter, drier conditions across much of the US, including parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, where farmers have been fighting to hang on to crops of winter wheat. The three-month forecast noted an additional hazard, however, for the midwest:...
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