Showing posts with label drought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drought. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Welcome To The 'Megadrought'

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Pinon Pines Near Los Alamos, New Mexico in 2002 (Left) and 2004 (Right) Courtesy Oregon State University via Flickr The 2000-2004 North Ame...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Amazon Drought 'Severe' In 2010

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Amazon Drought 'Severe' In 2010, Raising Warming Fears -- BBC Last year's drought in the Amazon raises concerns about the region...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

Africa-wide "Great Green Wall" To Halt Sahara's Spread?

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Acacia trees line an African landscape in an undated picture. Picture by Tim Laman, NGS From National Geographic: China built its famous Gre...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

California Droughts When Planet Warms?

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From Future Pundit: Why worry about earthquakes when we can worry about massive droughts instead? California experienced centuries-long dr...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Scientists Reveals Secrets Of Drought Resistance

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Soybean sprouts struggling in dry conditions. Biologists have now solved the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive duri...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Satellites Unlock Secret To Northern India's Vanishing Water

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The map shows groundwater changes in India during 2002-08, with losses in red and gains in blue, based on GRACE satellite observations. The ...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

West Africa Faces 'megadroughts'

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From The BBC: Severe droughts lasting centuries have happened often in West Africa's recent history, and another one is almost inevitabl...