Rising Temperature Raising Food Prices
Heat waves and droughts like that of 2012 in the United States are projected to become more frequent as the planet heats up.www.huffingtonpost.com
Portugal gets foreign help battling wildfires amid hot weather, wind and drought
Portugal is in the grip of one of its worst droughts in recent memory. At the end of July, 58 percent of Portugal was enduring extreme drought conditions and 26 percent was in severe drought, the two highest classifications, according to the ...www.washingtonpost.com
Popcorn drought hits the United States
United States popcorn farmers have watched with great worry, and sadness as the summer record heat wave, and droughts of 2012 have taken its toll on their corn crops withering, and stunting the growth of even the smallest ears of corn.www.examiner.com
Drought a Boon for Irrigation Firms
The circular fields seen more and more when flying over U.S. farm states aren't the work of UFOs or pranksters, but of farmers who are turning to irrigation platforms mounted on giant pivots as the best way to tackle droughts. The race to make more ...online.wsj.com
US Drought Means Fall Foliage In Limbo For Oklahoma And Arkansas
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Summer-long drought conditions that have plagued Oklahoma and Arkansas have left in limbo the usual explosion of fall foliage colors that attract tourists to both states.www.huffingtonpost.com
Severe drought means tree trouble
DENVER- This year's historic drought is creating historic problems for trees. According to local arborists, if something isn't done now, next year, many of the trees in the metro area will be dead.www.9news.com
Crops in India Wilt in a Weak Monsoon Season
Drought has devastated crops around the world this year, including corn and soybeans in the United States, wheat in Russia and Australia and soybeans in Brazil and Argentina.www.nytimes.com
Fears UK could face food crisis after bad weather destroys global crops
An Oxfam report Extreme Weather, Extreme Prices shows how droughts and floods could lead to catastrophic price spikes and a global hunger epidemic.www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Prolific predators, droughts and a drubbing
league matches in charge of Manchester United was the landmark reached by Sir Alex Ferguson against Southampton on Sunday, and the Red Devils marked the occasion with their 599th top-flight win under the veteran Scot.www.fifa.com
Heat wave, drought not worst in history
The droughts of the previous century - 1988, 1956 and especially the extended 1930s Dust Bowl - dwarf the dryness of 2012. Based on the Palmer Drought Index, some 60-plus percent of the nation is now or was abnormally dry or experiencing extreme ...www.columbiatribune.com
Surviving a Drought: A Farmer's Old-Fashioned Lessons
Iowa farmer Dick Thompson uses crop diversity to survive droughts and other natural disasters. (Photo: Steve Baragona). x. Iowa farmer Dick Thompson uses crop diversity to survive droughts and other natural disasters. (Photo: Steve Baragona). Tweet ...learningenglish.voanews.com
US Drought Damage: Homes See Cracking Due To Parched Soil
Like thousands of other Americans getting stuck with huge repair bills, DeVaughan learned that the intense drought baking much of the country's lawns, fields and forests this summer has also been sucking the moisture from underground, causing shifting ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Colorado drought conference to focus on innovation
FRISCO - While the 2011 drought has eased slightly in parts of Colorado, the potential for a second dry year has the state's resource managers thinking ahead.summitcountyvoice.com
Can genetically modified corn save the midwest from drought?
As a record-breaking drought ravages much of the U.S. farmland, Co.Exist reports this week on the resurgence in popularity of dry farming.www.smartplanet.com
Asia 'will be hit hard by drought in 2020s'
It found that, compared with the 1990–2005 period, the 2020s will witness increasingly severe droughts across much of Asia, primarily due to the decreasing availability of freshwater from seasonal rains.www.scidev.net
US needs corn for food, not fuel
This year's drought has been so severe, so devastating, that half of all counties across the country have been designated primary disaster areas.hamptonroads.com
Experts Issue a Warning as Food Prices Shoot Up
WASHINGTON - With the worst drought in half a century withering corn across the Midwest, agricultural experts on Tuesday urged international action to prevent the global spike in food prices from causing global hunger.www.nytimes.com
Record Farm Profit Amid Drought Raises Questions of Aid
Federal crop insurance dates to the Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s. The program and subsidies were boosted in 2000 as lawmakers sought to use them as a way to avoid near-annual disaster-aid appropriations that the Congressional Research Service ...www.businessweek.com
Big Grain Companies Reap Profits As Global Food Prices Soar And Poor Go ...
Global food prices spiked 10 percent in July, following unprecedented summer droughts and record high temperatures that devastated agricultural production in the U.S.www.ibtimes.com
Severe Droughts Drive Food Prices Higher
WASHINGTON, August 30, 2012 - Global food prices soared by 10 percent in July from a month ago, with maize and soybean reaching all-time peaks due to an unprecedented summer of droughts and high temperatures in both the United States and Eastern ...www.worldbank.org
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