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Sea level rise a disaster many decades in the making
2013-01-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Adelaide Now: THE plight of the River Murray has shown how environmental disaster can be allowed to sneak up on us despite ample warning, and opportunity for those charged with planning the future, to take preventative action. A prolonged drought threatened to be the straw that broke the river system's back, but the cause of the potential disaster was 100 years of over-extraction of water for human use. Fortunately for the river system and all those who rely on it, at a minute to midnight governments were...
USDA Declares Winter Wheat Belt Drought Disaster Area
2013-01-11 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) declared 597 counties across 14 states natural disaster areas as a result of the ongoing drought that threatens the winter wheat crop. These are the first drought-related natural disaster declarations of the year, and mark the second year in a row that such measures were necessary due to the drought event, which is the worst such event since the 1950s. Overall drought impacts across the continental U.S. improved slightly this week, due to mild...
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Hundreds of US counties labeled disaster areas due to drought
2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: Hundreds of U.S. counties labeled disaster areas due to drought - CNN.com SET EDITION: U.S. INTERNATIONAL MÉXICO ARABIC TV: CNN CNNi CNN en Espaol HLN Sign up Log in Home TV & Video CNN Trends U.S. World Politics Justice Entertainment Tech Health Living Travel Opinion iReport Money Sports Sports Bleacher Report Sports Illustrated Print Email More sharing Hundreds of U.S. counties labeled disaster areas due to drought By CNN Staff updated 8:25 PM EST, Wed...
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USDA declares drought disaster in much of Wheat Belt
2013-01-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The government declared much of the central and southern Wheat Belt a natural disaster area on Wednesday due to persistent drought that imperils this year's winter wheat harvest. In its first disaster declaration of the new year, the Agriculture Department made growers in large portions of four major wheat-growing states - Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas - eligible for low-interest emergency loans. The four states grew one-third of the U.S. wheat crop last year. Kansas was the No. 1 state...
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Time for action as disaster risks rise, insurer says
2013-01-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's exposure to natural risks is on the increase and governments at all levels should step up joint efforts to limit the losses and prevent insurance costs from spiralling higher, one of the country's biggest insurers says. Modest investments in flood or fire mitigation measures can significantly reduce the cost of the disasters when they inevitably occur, Suncorp Group said in its Risky Business report on risk management. "More frequent extreme weather events, economic growth, urbanisation...
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