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Deforestation Spawns Creeping Desert Central Argentina
2013-12-06 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: This small town in the semi-arid central Argentine province of Córdoba now has a 24-hour hotline for people to report their neighbours for sprinkling their lawns or using water to clean off the sidewalks. The water shortage is felt throughout the province, but it is especially bad in the most populous areas the provincial capital Córdoba, the Sierras Chicas hills to the northwest of the city, and the Punilla valley. Córdoba has the highest level of deforestation in Argentina. All that remains...
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China: Desert lake shrinking faster than ever
2013-11-29 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The rate at which China's largest desert freshwater lake is shrinking has accelerated dramatically in the past four years, figures show. Hongjiannao Lake, several hundred kilometres to the west of Beijing, has been disappearing since the 1970s, due to a combination of coal mining and climate change. But the speed at which it is losing area has increased rapidly since 2009, when it measured 46 square kilometres (sq km), down from 67 sq km in 1969. Data released by local meteorological agencies...
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China desert lake shrinks by one-third in 13 years
2013-11-28 18:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: China's largest desert freshwater lake has shrunk by one-third in the last 13 years, state media said Thursday, as the country's breakneck modernisation continues to damage the environment. Northern China's Hongjiannao Lake covers 32.16 square kilometres (12.86 sq miles), less than half its size in 1969 and two-thirds of its area in 2000, Xinhua news agency said. "Experts said human activities including reservoir construction, mining and agricultural irrigation are the main causes for the sad phenomenon,"...
Dental Care New at Desert Essence
2013-11-14 06:00:00| Happi Breaking News
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Dust storms common in arid climate, desert terrain
2013-10-30 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Powerful dust storms that carry whirling dirt and debris are common occurrences across parts of Arizona and the arid Southwest during the spring and summer months. A day after a massive dust storm swept across an Arizona highway, killing three people in a 19-vehicle pileup, experts say the state isn't alone, across the country or the world, in its susceptibility to such a weather phenomenon. Africa's Sahara desert and parts of the Middle East are often hit with powerful dust storms, also called...
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