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California Drought Expands, Fueling Heat and Fire
2014-01-16 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: A wildfire exploded outside Los Angeles Thursday as record temperatures spread across California, where drought conditions are escalating as the state comes off its driest year on record. A new update to the U.S. Drought Monitor shows that severe drought, the second-worst drought category, has spread across 62.7 percent of the California as of Tuesday. The previous week, severe drought was only affecting 27.6 percent of the state. California recorded only 7.38 inches of precipitation statewide...
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More Heat Waves, Drought, Sea Level Rise In Store For Southeast U.S.: Report
2013-11-14 07:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Weather Channel: Southerners will see more drought, longer and more severe heat waves, and poorer air quality over the next 20 years and beyond, according to a new report on the impact of climate change in the Southeastern U.S. Titled Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts and Vulnerability, the report is part of the U.S. National Climate Assessment and comes billed as the "most comprehensive look to date" at climate-related impacts across an 11-state region that stretches from the...
Heat, Drought Draw Farmers Back To Sorghum, The 'Camel Of Crops'
2013-10-31 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Much of the world is turning hotter and dryer these days, and it's opening new doors for a water-saving cereal that's been called "the camel of crops": sorghum. In an odd twist, this old-fashioned crop even seems to be catching on among consumers who are looking for "ancient grains" that have been relatively untouched by modern agriculture. Sorghum isn't nearly as famous as the big three of global agriculture: corn, rice and wheat. But maybe it should be. It's a plant for tough times, and tough...
More heat, drought and floods in 2013
2013-07-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Global average temperatures in June were the fifth highest on record, as above-average heat conditions continued a multidecade streak, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported yesterday. June marked the 340th consecutive month -- a span of time more than 28 years -- that global temperatures surged above the 20th century average, according to the agency. "The last below-average June temperature was June 1976 and the last below-average temperature for any month was February 1985,"...
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Drought, La Nina Produce Record Heat in 2012
2013-01-09 15:42:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Associated Press America set an off-the-charts heat record in 2012, according to an Associated Press report. A brutal combination of a widespread drought and a mostly absent winter pushed the average annual U.S. temperature last year up to 55.32 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced Tuesday. That's a full degree warmer than the old record set in 1998. Breaking temperature records by an entire degree is unprecedented, scientists say. Normally, records are broken by a tenth of a degree or so. read more
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