LongRoom News › drought
Mueller Report: Trump Cleared, Media Condemned
Prosecutor won't comment until review of Smollett case done
Warren Becomes First 2020 Candidate to Call for Impeachment Proceedings Against Trump
How Jesus of Nazareth Transformed the World: Women and Children
MINNEAPOLIS BANS 'FEAR-BASED' POLICE TRAINING
-
realclimatescience.com | 4/18/2019 | StaffKatharine Hayhoe is not only wrong about Texas climate, but she is actively supporting people who want to destroy West Texas’ two most important industries – oil and beef. There isn’t one...
-
phys.org | 1/11/2019 | Staff
Torrential rainstorms have lashed drought-stricken Afghanistan in recent days, bringing widespread flooding that has killed at least five people and washed away homes including in the capital Kabul,...
-
Washington Free Beacon | 4/15/2019 | Andrew Stiles
President Donald J. Trump has worked tirelessly to restore the American Dream after his predecessor, Barack H. Obama, spent eight years destroying it. Thanks to Trump's efforts, another disastrous...
-
www.oann.com | 4/14/2019 | StaffAUGUSTA Ga. (Reuters) – Tiger Woods won the Masters for the fifth time on Sunday to land his 15th major title and first since 2008. Woods, who began the...
-
Science | AAAS | 4/11/2019 | Staff
The severe drought that struck California from 2011 to 2015 had an obvious impact on rivers, forests, and wildlife. Now, a new study shows it also had some surprising effects on the state’s...
-
ScienceDaily | 4/10/2019 | StaffAlthough ozone in the stratosphere protects the earth from ultraviolet radiation, at ground level the molecule is a harmful air pollutant to humans, animals and plants.
-
www.oann.com | 3/23/2019 | Staff
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe appealed on Tuesday for $613 million in aid from local and foreign donors to cover food imports and help with a humanitarian crisis after a severe drought and a cyclone...
-
realclimatescience.com | 4/8/2019 | Staff“The starving time” was the winter of 1609-1610, when food shortages, fractured leadership, and a siege by Powhatan Indian warriors killed two of every three colonists at James Fort.
-
Zero Hedge | 4/5/2019 | Staff
According to scientists who study California’s seismic activity, the state is in an “earthquake drought.” With fears of the “big one” and likely more fires to already worry about, the state has...
-
phys.org | 4/4/2018 | Staff
Extreme weather events, such as Cyclone Idai that has recently devastated Beira, Mozambique, and Hurricane Harvey that hit Houston, USA, in 2017are the types of climate extremes that cities...
-
NewsBusters | 3/30/2019 | Staff
Not long after spiking an op-ed because of its decision to use “not reliable” conservative sources, USA Today published a cover story Tuesday that came across as more of an op-ed than an actual news...
-
www.oann.com | 10/14/2018 | Staff
KABUL/MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s summer harvest will be one of the most critical in years, especially of wheat, its biggest cereal crop, as the country recovers from floods...
-
phys.org | 3/27/2019 | Staff
Most citizen science initiatives ask people to record living things, like frogs, wombats, or feral animals. But dead things can also be hugely informative for science.
-
www.oann.com | 3/16/2018 | Staff
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa is likely to harvest 16 percent less maize in 2019 compared with the previous season after drought delayed plantings, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.
-
realclimatescience.com | 3/23/2019 | Staff
The LA Times, which has an open policy of censoring people who tell the truth about climate, reports on the record snow in California. This comes three years after experts announced the permanent...
-
phys.org | 3/22/2019 | Staff
Small mountain streams and the vibrant ecosystems they support were hit hard by the historic California drought of 2012 to 2015. Researchers monitoring aquatic life in Sierra Nevada streams observed...
-
ScienceDaily | 3/20/2019 | Staff
The team, comprised of School of Earth and Space Exploration researchers Chandrakanta Ojha, Susanna Werth, and Manoochehr Shirzaei, focused on the San Joaquin Valley's most recent drought period,...
-
NewsBusters | 3/20/2019 | Staff
California’s “Mediterranean climate” gets attention when it can be used to leverage panic over climate change and when people’s lives and properties are at risk.
-
phys.org | 3/19/2019 | Staff
Seven states that rely on a major river in the U.S. West are pushing for federal legislation to implement a plan to protect the water amid a prolonged drought, signaling they see the finish line in...
-
Climate Depot | 3/15/2019 | Marc Morano
It’s official: California is 100% drought-free. For the first time since 2011, the state shows no areas suffering from prolonged drought and illustrates almost entirely normal conditions, according...
-
Mail Online | 3/14/2019 | Rod Ardehali For Dailymail.com
California is drought-free for the first time in nearly a decade, experts have said. Heavy rainfall during the winter months has left just a small amount of territory abnormally dry, with 93 percent...
-
ABC News | 7/28/2014 | Staff
A major Southern California water agency is trying to push the state through a final hurdle in joining a larger plan to preserve a key river in the U.S. West that serves 40 million people.
-
phys.org | 3/11/2019 | Staff
In a time of drastic change, humans look for predictability. A recent study led by a University of Wyoming researcher found that even in dramatically changing climates, mechanisms can be found that...
-
realclimatescience.com | 3/8/2019 | Staff
Due to the California permanent drought, Squaw Valley has only has 611 inches (51 feet) of snow so far this season, and may have to shut down their skiing after the 4th of July.
-
phys.org | 3/4/2019 | Staff
More than 2 billion people worldwide are affected by water shortages, wildfires, crop losses, forest diebacks or other environmental or economic woes brought on by drought.
-
ABC News | 2/28/2019 | Staff
A California irrigation district with the highest-priority rights to water from a major Western river is using its power to demand federal funds to restore the state's largest lake, hoping to...
-
phys.org | 2/26/2019 | Staff
Our knowledge of how plant roots respond to stress is based largely on indirect data. Scientists didn't have a good way to see through soil. A team overcame that problem. They used neutron imaging.
-
phys.org | 2/26/2019 | Staff
A California irrigation district with the highest-priority rights to water from a major Western river is using its power to demand federal funds to restore the state's largest lake, hoping to...
-
Mail Online | 11/8/2018 | Michael Nam For Dailymail.com
Former Vice President Al Gore issued a chilling warning after connecting the dots between droughts related to climate change in Central America and migrant caravans bound for America.
-
phys.org | 2/25/2019 | Staff
Plants' water-to-land leap marks one of the most important milestones in the evolution of life on Earth. But how plants managed this transition when faced with unfamiliar challenges such as drought...
-
phys.org | 2/21/2019 | Staff
How wildlife respond to climate change is likely to be complex. To better understand the effects of climate change on the bird community in the Sierra Nevada region, new research published today...
-
www.oann.com | 2/20/2019 | Staff
(Reuters) – Asian wheat millers are snapping up cargoes of the grain from Argentina to arrive in the first-half of the year, typically peak-export season for traditional supplier Australia where a...
-
ScienceDaily | 2/15/2019 | Staff
The study -- published in Scientific Reports -- used preserved paper-bark tea tree leaves from North Stradbroke Island's Swallow Lagoon that have been collecting in the sediment for the past 7700...
-
phys.org | 2/15/2019 | Staff
A study by University of Adelaide researchers and Queensland Government scientists has revealed what south-east Queensland's rainfall was like over the last 7000 years – including several severe...
-
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″.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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...
-
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.
-
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.
NC’s bitter ironies during the celebration of Christ’s passion and resurrection Clive Sinclair once said that he saw the world...
Anticipating Avengers: Endgame — and Easter The apostle Paul wrote that all of creation, ourselves included, longs for...
Where Is Jesus Between His Death and Resurrection? Where is Christ after He dies on Friday afternoon and before He rises...
Only the Good Stuff: Multivitamins for Your Weekend [04.20.19] to reach every single one of the bruised &...
Taurus: the coming of the judge Taurus, April 21-May 20, is the first of the last section of God’s Zodiac (Taurus, Gemini,...
Saturday Prayer – Between slung between death and resurrection. the caught breath and the exhale. waiting for you. Amen.
China to launch asteroid probe, calls for partners China plans to launch an ambitious asteroid exploration mission and has...
100 Degrees In Minnesota And North Dakota On April 21, 1980 This week in 1980 marked the beginning of one of the longest heatwaves...
Extrasolar asteroid STRIKE: Oumuamua astronomer claims exoplanet object hit Earth in 2014 Loeb and his undergraduate assistant...
Not now, not ever: Working with domestic violence A textbook designed to prepare students to work with victims and perpetrators...
Three superb noise-cancelling headphones for traveling The relentless hum of bus tires and airplane engines will make you...
Iger: Star Wars Movies Will Go on 'Hiatus' After Episode IX Star Wars: Episode IX will mark the end of Disney and LucasFilm's...
Chloë Grace Moretz Was Warned Not To Be Outspoken & Distances Herself From ‘Shadow In The Cloud’ Writer Max Landis
Joe Swash BRUSHES Stacey Solomon's 'furry' baby bump and jokes: 'I wish I had that hair on my head' On Monday, Stacey...
Kim Kardashian, Shawn Holley Honored for Prison Reform Work Kim Kardashian is mired in her studies to become a lawyer, but...
Pamela Adlon Is Creating ‘Better Things’ On and Off-Screen “I got no sleep and no Emmy!” It’s the morning after the 2018...
Britain's Got Talent: David Walliams stands out in WILD sequinned Union Jack ensemble He's never been one to shy away from a...
Will Smith Performs with Jaden and Willow Smith at Coachella Will Smith surprised the Coachella crowd Friday night during...
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!
Breaking News
Warren Becomes First 2020 Candidate to Call for Impeachment Proceedings Against Trump How Jesus of Nazareth Transformed the World: Women and Children Mueller Report: Trump Cleared, Media Condemned MINNEAPOLIS BANS ‘FEAR-BASED’ POLICE TRAINING Flyers drop Kate Smith's 'God Bless America,' cover her statue over her racially 'offensive' songs