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drought stories: 34 news summaries

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 'Big Dry' Killing Aussie Farms 

Wheat exports critically low as farmers flee parched land

May 2, 08 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - The worst drought in a century has forced a tenth of Australian farmers off the land, reports the BBC. The "Big Dry" has led to parched farmland across the nation over the last seven years, accelerating the exodus from rural areas. The number of farming families in Australia has... More »

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Australia • farming • drought • wheat • farmer • farm • food shortage

 Crisis Looms as Rice Prices Soar

Countries ban exports, chastise hoarders

Apr 6, 08 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rice feeds half the world's population, but this year there isn't enough to go around and prices have risen by 50% over the last two weeks alone. Population growth is outpacing production, and stocks are at a 30-year low after droughts decimated harvests in China and Australia. Countries are banning... More »

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climate change • India • drought • McDonald's • Asia • exports • rice • Bangladesh • consumer prices • wheat prices • food riots • rice prices • export ban

Gene Discovery Holds Hope for Drought-Safe Crops

Scientists make botanical breakthrough

Feb 28, 08 2:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a gene that controls how plants absorb carbon dioxide and release moisture in a breakthrough discovery that could help develop drought-resistant crops, reports the BBC. The gene that regulates the work of stomata, or pores on plant leaves, has been sought by biologists for decades. The gene... More »

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Africa • carbon dioxide • farming • drought • genetically modified crops • plants • genes • crops • Nature

Old Town Resurfaces as Drought Dries Ga. Lake

Cars, boats, and building scraps found under evaporating Lake Lenier

Dec 24, 07 10:03 PM CST
(Newser) - The brutal drought hitting Georgia is drying up an artificial lake and exposing the long-dead town that lies beneath—along with mountains of trash. "It's horrendous, it's unbelievable," said one local resident. Lake Lanier's receding shores have exposed debris of all shapes and sizes, including an old dirt... More »

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Atlanta • drought • water • Georgia • lake • Lake Lenier • Buford Dam

Ga. Governor Prays for Rain

Perdue seeks divine intervention in drought

Nov 13, 07 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Georgia's governor called a prayer meeting in front of the Capitol today and asked residents of his parched state to "reverently and respectfully pray up a storm." About 250 Georgians joined Sonny Perdue in his unconventional bid for drought relief, reports the Journal-Constititution. A block away, protesters held... More »

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drought • Georgia • prayer • Sonny Perdue

Water Runs Out In Tenn. Town

Drought forces Orme to borrow from nearby town's hydrant

Nov 2, 07 7:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - If the Southeast drought’s effects on Orme, Tenn., are a sign of things to come, folks in Atlanta should start scheduling their showers. The rural home to 145 people has run completely dry, and what water gets trucked in can be used only between 6 and 9 pm. This... More »

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Southeast • Atlanta • drought • water • Alabama • Tennessee • emergency funding • Orme

West's Water Woes May Be Permanent

Diminishing snowcap, shrinking reservoirs could 'wipe out' states

Oct 21, 07 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Officials out West are worried about water, the New York Times reports, and not just for the short-term. In what the Times calls the "other water problem" caused by global warming, snowcaps that feed the the Colorado River—which quenches the thirst of 30 million people in seven states—... More »

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environment • California • drought • global warming • water • Arizona • New Mexico • Utah • Wyoming • Nevada • Colorado

Drought-weary Georgia Wants Help From Feds

Reservoirs nearly dry; governor asks Bush to declare disaster area

Oct 20, 07 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - With water supplies dwindling because of a severe drought, Georgia's governor declared a state of emergency today and asked President Bush to declare the northern part of the state a disaster area, the AP reports. The state wants permission to skirt EPA rules governing reservoir levels to deal with the... More »

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Southeast • drought • Georgia • water restrictions

Smog Cloud Menaces Asia

Asian Brown Cloud is melting Himalayan glaciers

Aug 3, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - An enormous cloud of smog over southern Asia threatens 2 billion people with flooding and drought, a new study shows. The "Asian Brown Cloud" is melting Himalayan glaciers, the Times of London reports, and the resulting floods will menace heavily populated downstream areas. And the cloud's driving up temperatures... More »

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pollution • drought • global warming • Asia • flood • glacier • Asian Brown Cloud • smog • Himalayas • air pollution

Scientists
Race to Save Rice Crops

Floods, droughts, warming threaten world's most vital food

Jul 29, 07 7:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - While much of the world focuses its attention on oil, 1,000 people in a lab outside Manila are worrying about the other staple the modern world depends on: rice. Because of drought, floods, and overproduction, Asian rice yields are flatlining, the Journal reports; as a result, the price of... More »

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India • farming • drought • famine • Philippines • innovation • rice • Manila

UN Report: Climate Change Will Hit Poor Hardest

Poorest will be hit hardest

Apr 6, 07 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Expect floods, droughts, fires—and resulting starvation, conflict, and mass migration—as climate change becomes more pronounced, says a U.N. report released today. And expect the poor to get hit the hardest, as deserts get drier, deltas flood more often, and small islands are overwhelmed. More »

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China • climate change • Russia • environment • United Nations • Saudi Arabia • pollution • hunger • drought • global warming • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • science • migration • United States • flood • starvation • fossil fuel

Southwest Water Crisis Looms

Global warming leading to long periods of severe drought

Apr 6, 07 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Permanent drought could strike the Southwest U.S. by 2050, thanks to global warming, and experts predict water wars, as cities and farmers face shortages. Computer models show that the drying has already begun. Jonathan Overpeck, a climate researcher at the University of Arizona, says the data tell “a... More »

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environment • drought • global warming • Southwest • water

They Pay the Price of Warming

when it comes to global warming, we're not in it together

Apr 3, 07 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - The obligation of people who live in countries that contribute the most to climate change--the developed nations— to those who will suffer most from it —the poor ones—is the subject of a provocative piece in the New York Times. More »

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climate change • environment • technology • Australia • carbon dioxide • India • drought • global warming • science • Netherlands • aid • Peter Gleick • Malawi • flood

Global Warming:
Who Wins?

Mar 21, 07 10:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Global warming is a looming planetary disaster, but there will be winners along with the losers, writes Brookings Institute Fellow Gregg Easterbrook. While arable regions turn into arid wasteland and coastal communities sink beneath rising oceans, climate change could trigger a real estate and mineral resources boom in balmier Alaska,... More »

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climate change • energy • environment • drought • global warming • Siberia • Greenland • sea level • green energy

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