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Drought
We have 10 pages of Drought Blog Entries.
But recent climate modeling indicates drying is likely to intensify in the subtropics and spread north into the U.S. Southwest, increasing the chances of severe drought there. If the models are right, the report adds, the drying may ...
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AGRICHEMICAL giant Monsanto hailed a significant step in creating a drought-tolerant corn to be available as early as 2010, in a move decried as 'misle.
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Drought, environmental dilemmas feed California's water woes. Arguing that human needs for water, needs of delta smelt, other fish, waterfowl and rare plants are 'co-equal' goals, advisory panel urges new canal system for Sacramento-San ...
From thefoodtimes
?We need to understand more about the physiology of drought and heat resistance in plants - maize, beans, legumes, sorghum, millet - anything which grows in an environment subject to drought. ?We need to take genes for heat tolerance, ...
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Forrest Mims III: Dry times are always sandwiched between wet ones; we just have to wait.
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California, just finished with its second consecutive year of drought, might well be facing a third. If so, state authorities may be forced to impose water rationing on farmers, homes and businesses. ... Environment Search. Internet ...
From info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Felicity Barringer)
When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in The American Naturalist.
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The greatest wave of famine known in the tropical belt to this day (1876-1879) coincided with a global drought, but above all it coincided with the apogee of colonization. The destruction of the provincial world and of its ...
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France and Italy were able to turn to other nations to fill their food gaps in 2003, but a 1972 drought in the former Soviet Union showed how easily worldwide grain supplies can be disrupted, the report says. After the Soviets secretly ...
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The two companies are jointly contributing $1.5 billion to a venture aimed at developing higher-yielding crops and crops more tolerant to adverse environmental conditions, such as drought, which has eroded production in countries around ...
From Awicaksono