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Report: Is Pakistan prepared to deal with climate migration?
DW discusses Is Pakistan prepared to deal with climate migration? Environmentalists have expressed concern over a massive climate-induced migration in various parts of Pakistan and the government’s apathy toward tackling a serious problem.
A report by ActionAid International and Climate Action Network South Asia recently revealed that in the past few decades, more […]
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Study: Climate change isn’t causing drylands to get drier
UPI discusses Study: Climate change isn’t causing drylands to get drier.
The planet’s drylands aren’t getting drier as a result of global warming, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Scientists found a few key soil moisture-atmosphere feedback mechanisms are preventing Earth’s drylands from […]
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The Southwest’s Race Against the Climate Clock
Capital and Main discuss The Southwest’s Race Against the Climate Clock. New Mexico is facing a drier than normal winter — its reservoirs are nearly tapped out. And things are going to get worse.
In the headwaters of the Rio Grande, last winter’s snowpack hit close to the historical norm. Yet, in the […]
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Boiling Point: Climate change spells trouble for the Colorado River. But there’s still hope
LA Times discusses Boiling Point: Climate change spells trouble for the Colorado River. But there’s still hope.
One of the best road trips I’ve ever taken was a sightseeing tour of the Colorado River, where it straddles the California-Arizona state line. I stood at the edge of Imperial […]
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Report: In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine
Mongabay discusses In Madagascar’s hungry south, drought pushes more than 1 million to brink of famine.
In Madagascar’s deep south, 1.35 million people, including 100,000 children, could fall victim to malnutrition this year, as the worst drought in a decade grips the region.
This remote region has witnessed 16 famines since 1896, […]
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The Daily Climate, December 17, 2020
The Daily Climate discusses: Carbon-neutral flight; building emissions; China, coal, and Australia; Solar project in NW Arctic; fastest growing food source; Canada’s hydrogen strategy; Study – forests and heat and dryness; Australian farms and drought.
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Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich From Water Scarcity
New Republic discusses Wall Street Vultures Are Ready to Get Rich From Water Scarcity. The basis of all human life is now officially on the market. Call it the No Future futures index.
Bloomberg reported on Sunday that California water futures are now officially on the Wall Street markets, […]
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A water crisis: How climate change affects our health
DW discusses A water crisis: How climate change affects our health. Philtino in South Africa and Shivday in India are already living with the reality of drought and flooding. We look at how their communities, and so many others are dealing with a lack of clean water.
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The year the West was burning: How the 2020 wildfire season got so extreme
Daily Climate discusses The year the West was burning: How the 2020 wildfire season got so extreme. If 2020 has proved anything, it is to expect the unexpected.
More than 4 million acres of California went up in flames in 2020 – about 4 percent of the […]
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