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• California Farmers Explore Water-Conserving Agriculture For A Drought-Filled Future

  
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  Credit: Community Alliance with Family Farmers After this year’s dismal snowpack survey predicted a serious water shortage for huge swaths of California’s farmland, some farmers are investigating an ancient technique called “dry farming.” As the Sacramento Bee highlighted last week , farmers in the ...
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• California Farmers Explore Water-Conserving Agriculture For A Drought-Filled Future

  
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  Credit: Community Alliance with Family Farmers After this year’s dismal snowpack survey predicted a serious water shortage for huge swaths of California’s farmland, some farmers are investigating an ancient technique called “dry farming.” As the Sacramento Bee highlighted last week , farmers in the ...
  4 days ago

• Thomas Friedman tells the world that the current uphevals in Syria started from lack of water, enhanced by the fast growing population ruled by a represive corrupt regime with outside money fomenting sectarian and religious passions. Then Assad’s cronies

  
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    Op-Ed Columnist   Without Water, Revolution.   Ed Kashi/VII   By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN   Published: May 18, 2013 12 Comments   TEL ABYAD, Syria — I just spent a day in this northeast Syrian town. It was terrifying — much more so than I anticipated — but not because we were ...
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• Water Problems Given as Added Reason For The War In Syria. Will Egypt Be Next? Could there be a “PAX CLIMATICA” to Save The Middle East?

  
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      A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next. Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza are also in deep trouble, he warns. By Mitch Ginsburg May 9, 2013, The Times of Israel   ...
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• The Stream, May 10: World’s CO2 Hits 400ppm Mark

  
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  The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the world’s atmosphere reached a daily average of 400 parts per million (ppm) , according to measurements taken at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the Guardian reported. The measurement is the highest recorded at the observatory, and scientists believe similar CO2 levels ...
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• The Stream, May 8: Finding Water for Cities

  
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  For Water, Cities Look to Farms Conserving water on farms is the key to securing water for cities that face recurring shortages, according to a new study published in the journal Water Policy , National Geographic reported. The growth of both irrigated agriculture and cities in water-scarce regions has fueled ...
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• Featured video: How climate change is messing with the jetstream

  
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  Weather patterns around the globe are getting weirder and weirder: heat waves and record snow storms in Spring, blasts of Arctic air followed by sudden summer, record deluges and then drought.
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• Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water

  
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  by Mike Adams Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of this, but many Western states, ...
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• NASA Projects Carbon Pollution Impact: ‘Some Regions Outside The Tropics May Have No Rainfall At All’

  
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  In September, NOAA put together a video showing how climate change means wet areas get wetter and dry gets drier. Now NASA has a video of their own with  similar findings . Here is a screen-shot (NASA didn’t make the video embeddable): Model simulations spanning 140 years [ video here ] show that ...
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• The Largest Droughts In History

  
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  Just like any other thing we take for granted, a lack of water tends to take us by surprise when we suddenly find there is a shortage. Suddenly simple things like washing the car and getting the garden watered can be made more complicated (and woe betide those who have swimming pools or other large water features to ...
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• A.G.R.I = Analysis of Global Risk Intelligence from the Environmental Parliament

  
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  “It is the mark of an intelligent educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Of an even higher intelligence is the mind that is able to entertain conflicting thoughts without prejudice and preference until such time that the merits of each are fully manifest and thus allow for the correct ...
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• Climate change feared to create global food crisis

  
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  The Observer, Apr 20, 2013 LONDON—When Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire Dec. 17, 2010, it was in protest at heavy-handed treatment and harassment in his province. But a host of new studies suggest that a major factor in the subsequent uprisings that became known as the Arab Spring was ...
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• Wednesday Wake-Up - CRS Report: Drought Issues in the US: Causes & Issues for Congress (22 April 2013)

  
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  An excellent report (dated on Earth Day!) from Peter Folger, Betsy A. Cody, and Nicole T. Carter of the Congressional Research Service: Drought in the United States: Causes and Issues for Congress. This is an update of their July 2012 report. Download CRS Drought in the U.S. - Causes and...
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• The environmental history of Russia’s steppes

  
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  By David Moon When I started researching the environmental history of Russia’s steppes, I planned my visits to archives and libraries for conventional historical research. But I wanted to get a sense of the steppe environment I was writing about, a context for the texts I was reading; I needed to explore the ...
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