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Bundelkhand package a 'delayed decision': gov...
Terming the Centre's announcement of a special package of Rs 7,266 crore for Bundelkhand as a 'delayed decision', the Uttar Pradesh government has said it will not benefit the local people.
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Master Gardener: Trials Garden in Oakland
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El Nino intensifies Latin America drought
Cracked soil and dead cows are pictured at a ranch in Chaco, Paraguay on November 18.
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LCRA seeks options for drought response
Measures to deal with current drought conditions - and how they will affect Matagorda County rice farmers - will be considered by the Lower Colorado River Authority board of directors at its regular meeting in Austin Wednesday.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
A team of US scientists has uncovered the complete genetic code of corn, a discovery that promises to speed development of higher yielding varieties of one of the world's most important food crops.
Modifying Weather: Cloud Seeding has Some New Believers
Cloud seeding once was seen similar to well divining, medicine shows and miracle healers.
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Christian Science Monitor
Palestinians accuse Israel settlements of diverting water
The Hmoud family once prospered in this arid Palestinian farm village by cultivating banana and eggplant crops, earning enough to send a son abroad for medical school and to build a house with a showy staircase and a two-story window.
But drought has decimated the spring that is Auja's only agricultural water source, and fields once filled with palm trees are now empty. Village residents have been forced to find work in the greenhouses near Jewish settlements that are hooked up to Israeli water mains.
Bundelkhand gets special package of Rs 7,266 cr
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi's plans for development of Bundelkhand today received the nod of the government which announced a special package of Rs 7,266 crore for development of the drought-hit region that spans across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Africa: Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
The perils of weather modification
Weather modification backfires in China? History of weather-tinkering in the USA October weather to hang on most of this week .
Population link to climate change: UN report
Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.
Climate change deal must aim to help women - U.N.
Women bear the brunt of drought, rising seas, melting glaciers and other effects of climate change but are mostly ignored in the debate over how to halt it, the United Nations Population Fund said on Wednesday.
As delegates at the World Summit on Food Security discuss urgent measures to counter the forward march of hunger, we must mobilise all world citizens - not just global leaders -to feed the more than one billion hungry people around the world.
Africa's soils thirst for more water
If farmers want to cope with the changing climatic conditions especially droughts, they should adopt irrigation.
Texas mulls plan to dump treated sewage into lakes
State environmental officials will consider a proposal this week to allow millions of gallons of treated sewage to be dumped into several popular central Texas lakes, angering some waterfront property owners, elected officials and environmentalists.
Parts Of Mississippi Declared Disaster Areas Due To Crop Losses
Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee due to crop losses from a combination of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.
18:52 'Charges needed' to protect water
Water charges must be introduced to protect drinking supplies in the face of climate change, the country's top engineers have warned.
Modeling the Recent Evolution of Global Drought and Projections for...
DOI Abstract Meteorological drought in the Hadley Centre global climate model is assessed using the Palmer Drought Severity Index , a commonly used drought index.
Texas officials: Wea re running out of water
With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts gathered Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water.
Texas officials discuss water shortage
The Texas population continues to grow rapidly, and the state's water supply continues to shrink.
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