ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2010) — The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, a group of researchers conclude in the first major study to ever examine “evapotranspiration” on a global basis. Most climate models have suggested that […]
[Desdemona remembers when it was the Martians who were building desperate canal mega-projects to save their world…] Beijing (UPI) Sep 30, 2010 – China’s $62 billion South-North Water Transfer Project is forcing the relocation of 330,000 people and may not even deliver clean water. The system, designed to supply 45 trillion gallons of water for […]
Reporting by Laura Martel; writing by David Lewis; Editing by Alison WilliamsSat Aug 21, 2010 11:11am EDT NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – Mauritania has launched a tree-planting program aimed at protecting its capital from the advancing desert and coastal erosion, a project that could eventually extend thousands of kilometers across Africa. President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on […]
This chart shows the percentage of the land area of the lower 48 states with summer daily low temperatures well above normal. The bars represent individual years, while the line is a smoothed nine-year moving average. Heat waves occurred with high frequency in the 1930s, and these remain the most severe heat waves in the […]
By Staff WritersAug 16, 2010 Fortaleza, Brazil (AFP) – The United Nations Monday launched a campaign to save the planet from deserts that are threatening a third of the planet along with the livelihoods of more than a billion people. The decade-long initiative aims to “reverse and prevent desertification” and to soften the effects of […]
By Diana Gregor6 August 2010 Climate change is provoking mass human migration. According to scientists, 50 million people worldwide will be displaced this year because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding, and other severe environmental changes. A joint study by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and […]
Beyond Reasonable Drought is a Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House travelling exhibition in association with the MAP Group — Many Australian Photographers. It features images by some of Australia’s best photographers, documenting the impact of the drought on the land, people and psyche of rural and urban Australia. Beyond Reasonable Drought Technorati […]
Want to avoid the next food price crisis? Tired of unreliable rice and corn exporters? Why not buy up fertile land abroad and ship your own fresh, dependable supplies of foodstuffs and biofuels back home? That solution seems to make sense for more and more cash-rich, food-importing countries. Foreign land acquisitions and long-term lease-holdings, starting […]
[Google Translate] VALENCIA, 26 June (IRIN) – Viu Bosc platform, which includes virtually all environmental groups Valencia, has warned that almost all Valencia forest land is “threatened” by a “high risk” of desertification due to erosion – loss of topsoil, – “as a result of the elimination or degradation of vegetation cover,” according to a […]
A solitary man and an ox cart travel across an area where locals went fishing less than a year ago in Damoguzhen County, Yunnan. ‘The old folk say it has never dried up in their lifetimes.’ Photograph: Jonathan Watts / Guardian Drought in south-west China and the Mekong basin Technorati Tags: drought,freshwater depletion,desertification,agriculture,China,global warming,climate change
