Tag: Drought - Page 3
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Icebergs Could be Towed to Areas Suffering Drought
As temperatures rise throughout the world due to global warming, the face of our planet is changing. At the poles, huge chunks of ice have been observed breaking off, left to drift in slow decay across the ocean. Meanwhile, in
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Firefighters Rescue 1,000-Year-Old Tree From Drought
Just outside of Rockport, Texas, stands an ancient Live Oak affectionately known as 'the Big Tree'. For well over 1,000 years, that towering tree has offered its long, cool shadow for weary locals to wade in -- and now they're
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Why Are Cattle Drought Deaths Across Texas Being Blamed on Too Much Water?
This summer has thus far been brutal across the nation. Drought and high temperatures are making life difficult for farmers and ranchers alike. And it's no surprise that widespread drought in Texas specifically is causing the
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Ultramarathoners Running 10,000-Kilometer Silk Road Route to Raise Awareness About Water Shortages
Seventy-two days after setting out from Istanbul, champion distance runner Kevin Lin Yi Jie and a small team of other athletes have covered 4,434 kilometers of their 10,00-kilometer goal: Running the
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West Palm Beach Florida Has Just A Few Week's Worth of Water Left...Gulp
With precious little water left in the reservoir serving West Palm Beach Florida, 100,000-some residents face an uncertain future. The metro area can, as an emergency measure, buy water from Palm Beach
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8 Year Old Kenzie Proves Weekday Rainfall Declining
Image: 8 year old Kenzie Brown with her Science Project, photo from Josh Brown, Kenzie's Father We Affect Weather? Do you ever have the feeling it always seems to rain on the weekends but not on the weekdays? So did 8 year old Kenzie Brown, of Phoenix,
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Amazon Rainforest is Looking a Bit Brown and Wilted
If the billion acres of Amazon rainforest are 'the lungs of the Earth', then our planet had better get in to see a pulmonary specialist right quick. According to research conducted with the help of satellite imagery,
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Animal Stamps Issued in Honour of WWF's 50th
It's the World Wildlife Fund's 50'th anniversary and in its honour the Royal Mail has issued a series of ten stamps. The animals featured are species from around the world which have benefited from the work of the conservation
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Will Freshwater Pipeline Save Cyprus From Drought?
Key reservoirs in Cyprus are drying up. In some parts of the Greek side of the divided island, 50 percent of the trees have died due to drought, damaging soil quality and agricultural
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World Food Prices Close to Record High
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization announced yesterday that in December, food prices surpassed their 2008 levels, often remembered for the riots that broke out around the world. Some say the increase in prices is directly
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Iran's Lake Urmia Is Drying Up Fast
About 100 years ago, my grandfather emigrated to the United States from a village near Lake Urmia, in what is now northwestern Iran. He died long before I was born, leaving me with
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India Climate Tribunal Gives Voice to People Affected by Climate Change, Demands Action from Governments
Ask Ajantha about the effects of climate change on her village in southern India and she can give you numbers—estimates of how far the shoreline has moved inland
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Drought in Amazon Allows Art to Surface after 7,000 Years
Climate change is having an impact on many countries in different ways. In the Maldives the sea is threatening to overcome the islands and in Brazil the Amazon River is drying up.
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Rivers Disappearing in Drought-Stricken Amazon
In places throughout the Amazon, some stretches of the region's most important rivers and tributaries have dried up almost entirely, reducing the normally flowing waterways to a vast plain of broken clay and mud. For some
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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms
Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region
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The Courtesy Flush Stinks: Bathroom Etiquette Gone Wrong
Ever feel like you live in a parallel universe? From the selective flush, to the slightly less controversial shared flush, I thought I had covered all the options for alternative toilet flushing methodologies. Heck, I've even
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Drought Uncovers City Submerged For Decades
Josefa Garcia Rojas walks through the eerily barren streets of Potosi, a small Venezuelan city where she lived most of her 84 years, amid the skeletons of trees and groups of curious onlookers. This is the first time she's stepped
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Oxfam: Tajikistan on the Brink from Climate Change
The already harsh life
