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California is trying to harness mega-floods to ease crippling droughts

California is trying to harness mega-floods to ease crippling droughts

HURON, California, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Land along Arroyo Pasajero Creek, midway between Sacramento and Los Angeles, is too dry for cropping in some years and dangerously flooded in others. Amid wet and dry cycles – two phenomena exacerbated by climate change – a coalition of local farmers and the nearby city of Huron are …

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Mediterranean marine heatwaves threaten coastal livelihoods

Mediterranean marine heatwaves threaten coastal livelihoods

KERKENNAH ISLANDS, Tunisia, Nov 13 (Reuters) – A decade ago, Tunisian fisherman Ahmed Chelli’s nets were swollen with fish and octopus he sold at the local market in the Kerkennah Islands. Today he pulls nothing but “ISIS” – the name locals have given to the blue crabs that have invaded their fishing grounds in the …

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