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New El Niño threatens world with weather woe - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent »
Posted by: gamahuche 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
A new El Niño has begun. The sporadic Pacific Ocean warming, which can disrupt weather patterns across the world, is intensifying, say meteorologists. So ...
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A Nation Without A Government--The Most Dangerous Country On Earth »
Posted by: Mikunited 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
The Today programme's Mike Thomson meets some of the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled fighting in Somalia.
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After 6000 Years Climate Change May End The Nomadic Lifestyle Of the "Turkanas Of Kenya" »
Posted by: Mikunited 1 month, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Images by Belgian photographer Roger Job show the Turkana pastoralists of Kenya coping with the impacts of climate change
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Israelis get four-fifths of scarce West Bank water, says World Bank »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times ...
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Worst Drought in 26 Years Threatens the Survival of the Last Desert Elephants »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The future of a rare herd of desert elephants in Mali is under threat from one of the worst droughts in living memory, which has ...
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From Finnish Researchers: When in Drought, Pee on Your Tomatoes »
Posted by: BronxBomber 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
Between the drought and the deficit here in Southern California, times are looking increasingly desperate: the funding for the Metropolitan Water District's water-saving appliance ...
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California farms lose main water source to drought »
Posted by: altnrg 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
California's main source of irrigation water is expected to go dry this year for most of its growers due to drought, idling at least ...
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Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also ...
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Trees dying in the West at record rate »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Trees are dying faster than ever in the old-growth forests of California and the mountains of the West, a phenomenon scientists say is linked to ...
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Ancient Drought And Rapid Cooling Drastically Altered Climate »
Posted by: Klarissa 4 months ago in News
Two abrupt and drastic climate events, 700 years apart and more than 45 centuries ago, are teasing scientists who are now trying to use ancient ...
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More than one billion go hungry in world recession »
Posted by: ekklesiawarrior 3 weeks, 4 days ago in News
The number of hungry people across the world has passed one billion for the first time in 40 years, according to the United Nations.
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California drought may raise vegetable prices »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Consumers may pay more for spring lettuce and summer melons in grocery stores across the country now that California farmers have started abandoning their fields ...
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Severe Drought Adds to Hardships in California »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The country’s biggest agricultural engine, California’s sprawling Central Valley, is being battered by the recession like farmland most everywhere. But in an unlucky ...
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The Beginning Is Here »
Posted by: barucci 1 month ago in Humor
A funny blog post about the proliferance of 'End is Near' and apocalyptic theory proponents.
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How Humans Have Disrupted The Nitrogen Cycle »
Posted by: myfairlady 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
More and more, scientists are getting a better grip on the nitrogen cycle. They are learning about sources of nitrogen and how this element changes ...
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