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realclimatescience.com | 2/13/2019 | Staff
Squaw Valley, California is having yet another epic snow year, having received 400 inches of snow so far this winter. The previous three winters they received 495″, 728″ and 411″.
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phys.org | 2/8/2019 | Staff
"Stable landslide" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but there are indeed places on Earth where land has been creeping downhill slowly, stably and harmlessly for as long as a century.
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phys.org | 2/6/2019 | Staff
The Amazon rain forest isn't necessarily a place that many would associate with a drought, yet prolonged dry spells are projected to become more prevalent and severe because of climate change.
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realclimatescience.com | 2/4/2019 | StaffSnake oil saleswoman Katharine Hayhoe took advantage of the 2011 drought in Texas to declare herself a climate expert – by blaming it on humans. Texas precipitation has been increasing since the...
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ABC News | 2/1/2019 | Staff
Two states in the U.S. West have work to do on a plan to combat the shrinking supply of Colorado River water that 40 million people depend on but that's threatened by a prolonged drought, a federal...
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Climate Depot | 1/31/2019 | Admin
People forced to migrate as a result of drought may no longer have easy access to the support of family and friends or to HIV treatment, Low, the study’s lead author, told the Thomson Reuters...
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phys.org | 1/30/2019 | Staff
The field of climate science seems to contain many examples of alarming runaway feedback loops, vicious cycles, and previously unimagined detrimental synergistic effects arising within Earth...
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phys.org | 1/22/2019 | Staff
Populations of coastal cutthroat trout and coastal giant salamanders in the Pacific Northwest show the ability to rebound quickly from drought conditions, new research by Oregon State University...
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phys.org | 1/16/2019 | Staff
The deaths of a million of fish in the lower Darling River system over the past few weeks should come as no surprise. Quite apart from specific warnings given to the NSW government by their own...
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phys.org | 1/18/2019 | Staff
The fires in Yellowstone National Park began to burn in June 1988. A natural feature of the landscape, park managers expected the fires to fizzle out by July, when rains historically drenched the...
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phys.org | 1/10/2019 | Staff
UC Merced researchers have evidence that California's forests are especially vulnerable to multi-year droughts because their health depends on water stored several feet below ground.
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phys.org | 1/11/2019 | Staff
Standing in his garden in Kabul, Baz Mohammad Kochi oversees the drilling of a new well more than 100 metres deep after his first water reservoir dried up. He is not alone.
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phys.org | 1/10/2019 | Staff
A major new study, led jointly by the University of Liverpool and the Natural History Museum, has discovered that termites mitigate against the effects of drought in tropical rain forests.
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ScienceDaily | 1/10/2019 | Staff
Termites are highly abundant in tropical ecosystems. They are one of the few living creatures that can break down cellulose found in plant material. They create temporary above-ground protective...
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Science News | 1/10/2019 | Yao-Hua Law
S. Milius. It’s official: Termites are just cockroaches with a fancy social life. Science News. Vol. 193, March 31, 2018, p. 7. T. Sumner. The ‘super’ El Niño is over, but La Niña looms.
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phys.org | 1/4/2019 | Staff
In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson writes: "The sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories…." You might wonder how this relates to microorganisms.
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Mail Online | 12/14/2018 | Phoebe Weston For Mailonline
Heartbreaking images reveal the devastating effects a 30-year-long drought is having in Kerman Province in southern Iran and the impact climate change is already having on the planet.
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WIRED | 12/11/2018 | Laura Mallonee
If you drove through the Hamoun Wetlands of southeastern Iran centuries ago, you would have found an oasis. In the rainy season, lakes and marshes have drenched its more than 1,500 square miles,...
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CNS News | 12/10/2018 | Staff
The mission of the Media Research Center is to create a media culture in America where truth and liberty flourish. The MRC is a research and...
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phys.org | 12/7/2018 | Staff
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have developed a complex hydrological model for forecasting dry spells lasting several weeks with high...
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phys.org | 12/7/2018 | Staff
Wheat and opium farmer Murad Khan Ishaqzai, 80, has never seen a drought as bad as the one ravaging western Afghanistan where more than 250,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes.
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Express.co.uk | 11/29/2018 | Staff
El Nino is responsible for warming ocean temperatures, which in turn leads to fewer major storms as it is more difficult for them to form over warmer seas. However, with a weak El Nino predicted...
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www.oann.com | 6/1/2018 | StaffMADRID/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A jump in the price of wool from drought-ravaged Australia, the world’s top exporter of high-quality fleeces, is rattling through the global clothing supply chain, with some...
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realclimatescience.com | 11/13/2018 | Staff
“Scientists who study the West’s long-term climate patterns say that California has had multiple droughts of 10 or 20 years in a row during the past 1,000 years — and two severe “megadroughts” of 180.
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phys.org | 11/6/2018 | Staff
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have found that the protein NGA1 is critical for plants to have normal responses to dehydration.
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realclimatescience.com | 11/11/2018 | StaffTwo thirds of the US has had above normal precipitation over the last three years, including nearly half of California. Thirty years ago, James Hansen predicted a huge increase in drought, and said...
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ScienceDaily | 11/8/2018 | Staff
Ana Caño-Delgado has been studying how the plant steroids -the brassinosteroids- regulate plant development and growth in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana for more than 15 years.
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phys.org | 11/8/2018 | Staff
Extreme drought is one of the effects of climate change that is already occurring. This year, the decrease in rainfall and the abnormally hot temperatures in northern and eastern Europe have caused...
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ScienceDaily | 11/5/2018 | Staff
Imagine what happens when you forget to water your plants for a week or two. More often than not, they will still be fine after you give them water again. This seems simple enough, but it is...
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Mail Online | 11/1/2018 | James Wood For Mailonline
Iconic wild animals living in Australia - from baby kangaroos to Koalas - are struggling to adapt to a crippling drought, ecologists are warning. The 'big dry', lasting for several years in some...
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phys.org | 11/1/2018 | Staff
From abandoned baby kangaroos to wallabies being blinded by the sun and koalas having to go walkabout to look for eucalyptus leaves, Australia's exotic wild animals are struggling to adapt to a...
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Mail Online | 10/30/2018 | Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
More than a century ago, the world experienced a set of naturally occurring, freak climate conditions that spurred the most devastating drought in the last 800 years.
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phys.org | 10/24/2018 | Staff
With drought ravaging Australia's eastern states, much attention has been given to the need to provide short-term solutions through drought relief. But long-term resilience is a vital issue,...
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phys.org | 10/25/2018 | Staff
A University of Oklahoma meteorologist, Elinor R. Martin, expects severe drought and long-lasting rainfall events to worsen in the future. In Martin's new study just published, she determines how...
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phys.org | 10/23/2018 | Staff
The docks are eerily quiet at Cologne's main port on the mighty River Rhine, with hundreds of containers piled up and awaiting their journey north on one of Europe's busiest commercial arteries.
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phys.org | 10/19/2018 | Staff
Months of drought have left water levels on Germany's Rhine river at a record low, exposing a World War II bomb and forcing ship operators to halt services to prevent vessels from running aground.
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phys.org | 10/18/2018 | Staff
It's harvest time and the chips are down for potato producers in northern France where a long summer drought could see French spuds shrink in size and volume. The potatoes "first lacked water and...
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phys.org | 10/17/2018 | Staff
Flash drought is a rapidly intensifying water deficit process accompanied by high temperatures in a short period of time. Recently, heat extremes have become more frequent in a warming climate, and...
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phys.org | 10/11/2018 | Staff
One in 10 Americans depends on the Colorado River for bathing and drinking. Last fall's record-high temperatures reduced Colorado snowpack in winter 2018 to 66 percent of normal, sparking concern...
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phys.org | 10/11/2018 | Staff
Australia has never been a stranger to droughts, but climate change is now super-charging them. Besides taking a toll on human health, droughts also bake the earth.
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phys.org | 10/11/2018 | Staff
A Washington State University researcher has completed the most thorough analysis yet of The Great Drought—the most devastating known drought of the past 800 years—and how it led to the Global...
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UN report reveals unprecedented changes humanity must make to avoid heat, drought and floods by 2050Mail Online | 10/8/2018 | Phoebe Weston;Harry Pettit For Mailonline
Humanity must radically change its diet, give up petrol cars and almost completely cut its use of coal in order to save itself from climate change. That's according to a damning new UN report, which...
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phys.org | 10/5/2018 | Staff
Farmers in drought-stricken parts of Australia are celebrating after the heavens opened up this week, inundating parched lands with more than a month's rain in one day following the country's driest...
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realclimatescience.com | 10/4/2018 | Staff
We had more than one fourth of our average annual rainfall in Phoenix yesterday. This guy did a couple of doughnuts before he sank into the swamp. Before the rain arrived it was windy.
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phys.org | 10/1/2018 | Staff
Economic losses caused by drought in China may double if the global temperature rises by 1.5°C to 2.0°C above pre-industrial levels, with increasing drought intensity and areal coverage across...
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One America News Network | 7/5/2018 | Staff
Ending a title drought that stretched back to July 2015, Australian qualifier Bernard Tomic completed an epic run at the Chengdu Open by beating top-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (7) in...
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Live Science | 9/28/2018 | Staff
Droughts occur in nearly all types of climate. Of all the weather-related phenomena that can cause severe economic impacts in the United States, droughts come in second only to hurricanes, according...
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realclimatescience.com | 9/28/2018 | Staff
Seven years ago, Bill Clinton’s science advisor announced the southwest permanent drought. Current forecast is Phoenix will get more than 100% of our average annual rainfall in the next two weeks.
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One America News Network | 9/23/2018 | Staff
(Reuters) – Tiger Woods won his first title since 2013 when he captured the Tour Championship by two strokes in Atlanta on Sunday. Woods led throughout the final round and finished at 11-under-par...
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phys.org | 9/19/2018 | Staff
Diversity is strength, even among forests. In a paper published in Nature, researchers led by University of Utah biologist William Anderegg report that forests with trees that employ a high...
Beloved pastor, father of five, suffers fatal heart attack after communion service The Rev. Charles M. Franklin Jr., a...
Should We Keep Studying a Fired Pastor’s Work? When a prominent pastor is forced out of his pulpit in the midst of scandal,...
Another welcome return to the earlier age for Confirmation I have thought about enabling comboxes on my blog for some time.
Historic United Methodist church sees ‘hopeful’ time for LGBTQ Christians CHICAGO (RNS) — The Rev. Myron McCoy is looking for a...
Weekly briefing: SBC sex abuse, James MacDonald, 'Dirty Dozen' Weekly briefing: SBC sex abuse, James MacDonald, 'Dirty Dozen'...
GoTrendier raises $3.5 million to take on Spanish-language fashion marketplaces Thanks to environmentally conscious young...
Researchers crack mystery of past maternal mortality rates Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have...
Flu season's been pretty quiet this year—here's why We haven’t been hearing much about influenza this year, and that’s only...
Amazon dumped New York, but cities still wooing the company Amazon's breakup with New York was still fresh when other cities...
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Gravitational waves will settle cosmic conundrum The cosmos has been expanding for 13.8 billion years. Its present rate of...
Qatar’s beIN Rallies Support From U.S. Companies Against Pirate Broadcaster beoutQ Qatari powerhouse beIN Media Group has...
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom receive congratulations from stars Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom became engaged on Valentine's...
Meg Ryan Reveals She's Writing a Rom-Com — But Doesn't Want to Jinx It: I’ll 'Leave It at That' Meg Ryan is making a return to...
‘Birds Of Passage’ & ‘Donnybrook’: Don’t Sleep On These Indie Masterworks [AYT Podcast] On this episode of Adjust Your...
International Cinema Group Urges Festivals to Ban Non-Theatrically Released Films From Competition With the Berlin Film...
Here's How Much The Weeknd Spent on Bella Hadid’s Valentine's Day Surprise It's good to date The Weeknd. On Valentine's Day,...
Raccoons Keep Calm and Carry On! These cute raccoons appear to be waiting to be fed with the front one looking to keep every...
Rare "Dumbo" Octopus! This octopus fans out its tentacles as if showing off while having its picture taken!
Subway in 1905 - New York City, NY! This short glimpse into the past reveals a time radically different from today.
This Turkey Gives Out Hugs! This turkey has a great strategy for avoiding being a Thanksgiving dinner - just give another way,...
Tornado Coming in Laramie! This classic stovepipe in Laramie is causing some havoc as it continues on its way looking very...
Short, But Torrential Downpour in Nevada! This microburst drops lots of water on the Nevada landscape!
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