The ingredients line up for parts of Florida to be active for wildfires in 2023, despite two hurricanes making landfall in 2022 bringing torrential rains. The recently released outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center shows the likelihood of above-normal wildfire potential developing in the new year along the Interstate 10 corridor and includes the …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The federal government announced Monday that it will spend $250 million over four years on cleanup and environmental restoration work around a dried-up Southern California lake fed by the depleted Colorado River. The future of the Salton Seaand who is financially responsible for it, has been a key question in discussions …
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Record floods and droughts fueled by El Niño and La Niña phenomena around the world, from Australia to West Africa and from the United States to Argentina, are expected to erupt according to the latest scientific reports. further intensify due to climate change by 2030. A new study published in Nature has concluded that the …
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Drought, human-caused climate change, invasive species and a “legacy” of environmental problems are permanently altering the California landscape and putting some communities and ecosystems at increasing risk, a group of experts said recently. to water managers. Invasive species and decades of disruption from massive land and water developments are partly responsible for a continuing decline …
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As California droughts grow longer and more severe, overpumping of groundwater will disproportionately affect ecosystems and rural communities. (Terry Chea/Associated Press) Drought, human-caused climate change, invasive species and a “legacy” of environmental problems are permanently altering California’s landscape and putting some communities and ecosystems at increasing risk, a panel of experts told the US recently. …
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CHIBAYISH, Iraq — Abbas Hashem fixed his worried gaze on the horizon – the day was almost over and still, there was no sign of the last of his water buffaloes. He knows that when his animals do not return from roaming the swamps of this part of Iraq, they must be dead. Dry land …
Salt and drought are decimating buffaloes in the swamps of southern Iraq Read More »
CHIBAYISH, Iraq (AP) — Abbas Hashem fixed his worried gaze on the horizon — the day was nearly over and still, there was no sign of the last of his water buffaloes. He knows that when his animals do not return from roaming the swamps of this part of Iraq, they must be dead. Dry …
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SALT LAKE CITY — A group of 30 agencies that supply water to homes and businesses in the western United States have pledged to pull lots of decorative grass to help keep water in the overused Colorado River. The agreement signed Tuesday by water agencies in Southern California, Phoenix and Salt Lake City and elsewhere …
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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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BATABANO, Cuba (AP) — Yordán Díaz Gonzales pulled weeds from his fields with a tractor until Cuba’s summer rainy season turned them to feet-deep red mud. Now it takes five farmhands to tend to Díaz’s harvest. This squeezes Diaz’s profit margin and diminishes Cuba’s agricultural productivity, already burdened by a US embargo and an unproductive …
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