By Jim Forsyth; Editing by Corrie MacLaggan and Greg McCune20 December 2011 SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – The massive drought that has dried out Texas over the past year has killed as many as half a billion trees, according to new estimates from the Texas Forest Service. “In 2011, Texas experienced an exceptional drought, prolonged high […]
By Tilo Arnhold, tilo.arnhold@ufz.de Phone +49 341 235 163516 December 2011 Chicago/Leipzig (UFZ) – Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics. Large areas of Canada are apparently approaching this threshold […]
It’s time for the yearly retrospectives on 2011, and we’re kicking them off with 2011’s most-viewed stories on Desdemona. It won’t surprise anyone to see that the triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant was the most popular event, with 9 of the top 20 stories. Most surprising is the continued popularity of a 2009 […]
By Mara Lee, Hartford Courant 8 December 2011 Reporting from Hartford, Conn.— The United States had a dozen weather disasters that each caused at least $1 billion in damages in 2011, the greatest frequency of severe weather that caused costly losses in more than 30 years of federal government tracking. However, even with the number […]
By Catherine Holland; Weather forecast by Meteorologist Royal Norman26 September 2011 PHOENIX – It’s been a dry summer and it looks like it’s going to be a dry winter. That does not bode well for Arizona’s drought conditions, which have been an issue since 1999. As Javier Soto reports, the return of the La Niña […]
By JUSTIN GILLIS 1 October 2011 WISE RIVER, Mont. — The trees spanning many of the mountainsides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of autumn. But these trees are not supposed to turn red. They are evergreens, falling victim to beetles that used to be controlled in […]
By Jim Forsyth; Edited by Karen Brooks and Cynthia Johnston30 September 2011 SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – A devastating Texas drought that has browned city lawns and caused more than $5 billion in damages to the state’s farmers and ranchers could continue for another nine years, a state forecaster said on Thursday. “It is possible that […]
By Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic25 September 2011 A dry winter and a weak monsoon fueled record wildfires, record heat and a succession of dust storms that played like a broken record, pushing Arizona deeper into a drought that has persisted since 1999. Now, forecasters say La Niña, the ocean force responsible for the scant […]
The 2011 Texas drought has caused more than $5 billion in losses for farmers and ranchers, according to a Texas A&M University study, and has sparked damaging wildfires. A $5 billion dry spell Technorati Tags: North America,agriculture,drought,wildfire,freshwater depletion,financial collapse,poverty,global warming,climate change
By John Gill, Special to Scripps Texas Newspapers24 September 2011 Mother Nature is still tossing curve balls at wildlife and hunters.First, she came with a withering statewide drought and then she hurled widespread wildfires, some that are still burning in the Lone Star State. Allan Cain, biologist and project leader for whitetail deer at the […]
