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More rain leads to fewer trees in the African savanna
2015-10-19 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In 2011, satellite images of the African savannas revealed a mystery: these rolling grasslands, with their heavy rainfalls and spells of drought, were home to significantly fewer trees than researchers had expected. Scientists supposed that the ecosystem's high annual precipitation would result in greater tree growth. Yet a 2011 study found that the more instances of heavy rainfall a savanna received, the fewer trees it had. To this ecological riddle, Princeton University researchers might have...
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A budding rain garden
2015-10-15 01:16:50| PortlandOnline
Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) staff recently joined volunteers with Depave and Saint Peter & Pauls Episcopal Church to help make space for a new rain garden in the churchs parking lot in Southeast Portland.
As dry weather continues, Portland waits for rain, leans on backup water supply
2015-10-14 18:24:49| PortlandOnline
Andrew Theen in The Oregonian, October 14, 2015
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More rain, flooding predicted for inundated South Carolina
2015-10-09 21:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As state and local officials warned on Friday of the possibility of more flooding in eastern South Carolina , Georgetown County resident Wilma Green said she would heed their advice to evacuate. "Im waiting on rescue people to come pick me up," said Green, 70, who planned to leave her home in the vulnerable Dunbar community and stay with her daughter until the floodwaters subsided. Concerns about additional inundation in four coastal counties and more rain had officials on guard Friday, nine days...
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South Carolina Braces for More Flooding as Rain Persists
2015-10-05 15:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: South Carolina emergency officials warned that flooding would continue Monday in more than half of the state, as rescue crews continued to extricate residents from inundated neighborhoods. Many other residents navigated a state in disarray, with broken waterlines, impassable roads and thousands of power failures. An unrelenting storm system partly fed by moisture from Hurricane Joaquin has been pounding the state since Thursday. Gov. Nikki R. Haley on Sunday called the resultant flooding an incident...
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