NEWS.com.au | Breaking News:
FARMERS will battle through the drought because they believe current dry conditions are mostly cyclical and not the effect of climate change, the NSW Farmers Association says. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
WASHINGTON — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated – beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.As the world has talked for a dozen years about wh (Read More)
SFGate: Entertainment:
Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1984 Nov. 26: A waterspout touched down on San Francisco Bay yesterday, whirling in a 1,000-foot high funnel and (Read More)
L.A. Times - Environment:
Southern California has embraced water conservation, but it must be more than a temporary response to drought. California did it. This mon (Read More)
Los Angeles Times - Opinion:
Water conservation must be more than a temporary response to drought Southern California has embraced water conservation, but it must be m (Read More)
L.A. Times - Environment:
Drought, crop failure and deforestation, along with warming temperatures, have combined to create a crisis of malnutrition. Foreigners have come to Anjandobo vill (Read More)
SFGate: Crime Scene:
Rain fell, as forecast, over the Bay Area on Friday. But anyone expecting a drought-ending deluge, or even a nice, slow lawn-soaking, was undoubtedly disappointed. In San Francisco, it amounted to a brief burst of heavy rain (Read More)
New York Times:
Following a long drought, a flood of new hotels is opening, energized by the city’s reputation as a world capital of the emerging creative class.
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Yale Environment 360:
The Kenyan government has begun evicting an estimated 30,000 families that have squatted illegally in the vital Mau forest and caused major environmental damage to the one-million-acre woodland. The Mau forest, located in the (Read More)
MSNBC:
Nov. 17: Fifteen years of drought has left Arizona parched. NBC's Anne Thompson talks to geologist Abe Springer about water conservation efforts in Flagstaff. (Nightly News) NBC - NBC Nightly News - Arizona - United State (Read More)
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According to the Austin-American Statesman, this years El Niño weather pattern could ease the drought conditions in Central Texas. What does that mean for your homes foundation?. (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Nightly News:
Nov. 17: Our Planet: In the drought-plagued high desert of northern Arizona, conservation is now a way of life. NBC's Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent Anne Thompson reports. (Nightly News). (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Weather:
With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts are trying to convey an important message: We're running out of water. (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Americas:
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought.
Venezuela - Hugo Chávez - Cuba - Colombia - South America. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
A drought in China's midsection makes it unlikely the Three Gorges Dam will be filled to capacity on schedule this year. (Read More)
Knight Science Journalism Tracker:
Lake Titicaca in Bolivia is near a record low level for the last 70 years. A drought gets the main, proximate blame. Most attention to this situation this week internationally is due to the AP. Its Carlos Valdez on Friday r (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Photo: Animal PlanetGreat Documentary Coming to Animal PlanetAt the feet of the Kilimanjaro, about 1,200 elephants have been going through one of the worst drought that the savannah has seen in living memory. For those majest (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Personal Finance:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. mall owner Developers Diversified Realty Corp snapped a dry spell of nearly a year and a half by selling $400 million of new commercial mortgage bonds on Monday, with help from an emergency Federal (Read More)
FT.com - Africa:
Audio slideshow: See Barney Jopson's report on WaterAid's work to install wells and pumps in drought-stricken southern Ethiopia. (Read More)