Posts Tagged ‘drought’
Top 5 Natural Disasters Of The Decade
According to Scott Maniquet, National Post, "every decade has its share of natural disasters: earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, typhoons, ...
Launch of “Weather Info for All” Africa
Somaliland Press is reporting that "About 5,000 new automatic weather stations are set to be deployed across Africa, under a climate change initiative announced today by the ...
Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog: Fourth warmest May on record
Dr. Jeff Masters, Wunderblog, explains how the month of May 2009 was the fourth warmest on record. "The globe recorded its fourth warmest May on record, according to the National ...
Drought-hit India’s Frog Wedding to Appeal to the Rain Gods
Thanks to Reuters, we bring you this truly unusual story about "Indian villagers [who] marry off frogs in a traditional ceremony to appeal to the rain gods Suranjana Tewari reports." Watch ...
Somalia: Worst Drought In Decade
According to Reuters, "Somalia's worst drought in a decade is pushing growing numbers of children into near-famine conditions and ...
Droughts Common in West Africa During Past 3000 Years
A Bold Scheme To Cool Earth Almost Overnight. But Are We Ready?
MaClean's, in last week's issue, meets with David Keith of the University of Calgary to discuss plan B for global warming. "When Keith first took an interest ...
YouTube: The Environmental Film “Home”
As described on YouTube, "HOME is a feature film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and co-produced by EuropaCorp (Luc Besson's studio) and Elzévir Films and supported ...
Global Temperature Rises, What It Will Mean To You
According to Mark Lynas, the author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, and as reported in The Guardian...
Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters In 2008
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) describes itself as the "Nation’s Scorekeeper in ...
Drought, Recession Scorch Texas Cattle Ranchers
From Pandora, Texas, Ed Stoddard and Jessica Rinaldi, of Reuters, are reporting that ...
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