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When the desert devours the lake
2013-04-07 14:38:13| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toronto Star: In its glory days during the 1960s, Lake Chad was 38,000 square kilometres of sparkling blue-green water that nourished humans, animals and plant life in the four countries it straddled: Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. The lake, on the edge of the mighty Sahara Desert, gave solace to people. Poems were written about it; celebrations were held on its banks. But Lake Chad is now a speck of what it was five decades ago, measuring just 1,300 square kilometres. The Sahara desert is the culprit....
Peru bores through Andes to water desert after century of dreams
2013-04-06 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here. Fresh water that now tumbles down the eastern flank of the Andes mountains to the Amazon basin and eventually the Atlantic Ocean will instead move west through the mountains to irrigate this patch of desert on Peru's coast. It will then drain into the Pacific Ocean. The Herculean...
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Sahara Went from Green to Desert in a Flash
2013-04-05 22:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: From lakes and grasslands with hippos and giraffes to a vast desert, North Africa's sudden geographical transformation 5,000 years ago was one of the planet's most dramatic climate shifts. The transformation took place nearly simultaneously across the continent's northern half, a new study finds. The results will appear in an upcoming issue of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. The findings come from analyses of dust blown west from Africa and dropped into the Atlantic Ocean....
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Game meant to be played in 2,000 years gets buried in desert
2013-04-05 00:48:55| CNET News.com
Jason Rohrer's A Game for Someone is meant to be played in the distant future. But you could be the first to play it if you can dig it up in Nevada. [Read more]
South African desert to host speed record bid
2013-03-14 18:25:16| Beverages - Topix.net
PepsiCo Inc. recently took the unusual step of removing an obscure vegetable oil from its Gatorade after a Mississippi teenager made it her mission to get rid of the ingredient.
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