By Jerry Lackey21 May 2011 Weather disasters across the nation already have wreaked havoc on 2011 agriculture, maybe worse than millions of feral hogs are doing to livestock, irrigated crops, city parks and golf courses. But hold onto your hat, more is ahead as meteorologists predict an active hurricane season from June through November. Croplands […]
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.com18 May 2011 New data from the Brazilian government seem to confirm environmentalists’ fears that farmers and ranchers are clearing rainforest in anticipation of a weakening of the country’s rules governing forest protection. Wednesday, Brazil’s National Space Research Agency (INPE) announced a sharp rise in deforestation in March and April relative […]
Contact: info@maplecroft.com or call +44 (0)1225 42000018 May 2011 18/05/2011 The Gulf nations of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are rated as the world’s most water stressed countries, with the least available water per capita, by a new ranking of 186 countries. The Water Stress Index, released by risk analysis and mapping firm Maplecroft, […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera17 May 2011 From the blog of Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences: Autoradiograph of Equisetum arvense (Horsetail; young shoots are edible), picked on May 3: This is an enlargement of one part of the skirt. The distribution is uniform, so the particles are likely spores. […]
By Carey Gillam; editing by Dale Hudson16 May 2011 Another dry week in the southern United States has driven the spread of a devastating drought further across Texas and neighboring states, promising to add to economic losses that could top $3 billion. Texas, suffering its longest dry spell on record, saw the highest level of […]
By Gerard Bon, Marie Maitre, and Sybille de La Hamaide; editing by Anthony Barker16 May 2011 PARIS (Reuters) – France has imposed limits on water consumption in 28 of its 96 administrative departments, the environment ministry said Monday, amid signs that a prolonged dry spell that has hit grain crops would continue. “We are already […]
By Rhett A. Butler, www.mongabay.com16 May 2011 Deforestation has increased sharply in Mato Grosso over the past nine months according to information leaked to Folha.com. The news, revealed during a lecture last Friday in Cuiaba, is significant because INPE, Brazil’s space research agency that tracks deforestation has unusually not provided any updates from its rapid […]
One of the driest springs on record has sparked fears for agriculture and wildlife, while crews ‘work to the point of exhaustion’ to battle forest fires By Matt Chorley and Tom Moseley15 May 2011 Ministers are to hold an emergency drought summit in an attempt to avert a crisis caused by one of the driest […]
Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington, Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kan., Sheila V Kumar in Denver, Kristi Eaton in Oklahoma City and Sue Holmes in Albuquerque, N.M., contributed to this report.10 May 2011 LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — With much of the nation focused on a spring marked by historic floods and deadly tornadoes, Texas […]
May 12 (Southwest Farm Press) – The Texas Farm Bureau board of directors, meeting in its regular quarterly session at its headquarters in Waco, Texas, issued the following statement of urgency: As wildfires in Texas continue a rampage across more than two million acres, another major disaster is gripping the Lone Star State. Dry weather […]
