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U.S. Drought Worsens after Signs of Easing
By Jim Suhr Associated Press Comments St. Louis â The worst U.S. drought in decades has deepened again after more than a month of encouraging reports of slowly improving conditions, a drought-tracking consortium said this week, as scientists ...
Extreme Weather: The 2012 U.S. Drought
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows the extent of current drought conditions.Click on the map to go to a site with a full report and statistics. Current U.S. Drought Is Most Severe in DecadesDrought FactsRecord heat and below-average rainfall have comb...
US Drought Could Pinch World’s Poor, says Think Tank IFPRI
- Drought in the U.S. farm belt may result in higher prices for poor people around the world, according to the head of an agricultural think tank who on Monday also recommended a halt to ethanol production from corn. Shenggen Fan, director general of t...
Erratic Weather Across Globe Fueling Impending Food Crisis
In addition to the ongoing drought in the United States, experts warn that the potential for a worldwide food crisis is heightened by extreme and erratic weather across the globe. A report in The Guardian cites recent flooding in Russia, an encroaching...
Causes of Midwest Drought: La Niña and Global Warming Thought to Contribute to Dry Weather
By Climate Central's Andrew Freedman: Driven by a combination of natural climate variability, manmade global warming, and plain old bad luck, drought conditions are so widespread in the U.S. that it’s possible to take a cross-country flight from...
US Drought Threatens Price of Food as Hot Weather Fries Corn
Parched fields drives up price of corn, with higher prices likely to be passed on in the cost of hamburgers, steak and bread The USDA now predicts that the corn crop will average just 146 bushels an acre, down 20 bushels from its previous forecast...
Images Tell The Story Of Hunger In Niger
As you can imagine, my work as the photo editor for the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger has sent me all over the world to some incredible, but also challenging, places. I've been on the frontlines of hunger; I've seen communities pick...
Drought Could Become a Catastrophe For 13 Million if Action Not Taken in West and Central Africa, Oxfam Warns
Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken. ...
HORN: La Niña returns
The climatic conditions linked to the drought in the Horn in 2011 have persisted, and some early warning officials say the aid community should brace themselves for a possible re-run of last year's food crisis. (..) However, in their forecast, the Worl...
Save the Children Starts School Meals for Somali Refugees
Imagine if you were a child living in the Gebo and Bay regions of Somalia last summer. Instead of having the opportunity to go to school in the fall you were trapped in a massive drought zone. (..) Thousands of residents of Gebo and Bay are now in the ...
