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Snarled Supply Chain? Drought Prompts U-Turn Of Two Gas Tankers At Panama Canal
Snarled Supply Chain? Drought Prompts U-Turn Of Two Gas Tankers At Panama Canal The El Niño weather pattern has sparked a drought this year across Central America that is creating extreme congestion at the Panama Canal, prompting some ships to turn around and seek alternative routes. New shipping data from Bloomberg shows two liquefied petroleum […]
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest The spread between hard-red winter wheat and soft-red winter wheat has blown out to a record high as drought threatens crop yields across the Midwest and other major farming regions. Hard-red winter wheat’s premium over soft-red winter wheat is $1.72 a bushel in Chicago on Tuesday morning, […]
USDA Reveals US Corn-Harvested Acres At 2008 Levels Amid Megadrought
USDA Reveals US Corn-Harvested Acres At 2008 Levels Amid Megadrought Last year was a bad year for corn — the latest US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report shows drought conditions and extreme weather wreaked havoc on croplands. USDA unexpectedly slashed its outlook for domestic corn production amid a severe drought across the western farm belt. […]
One Of Spain’s Largest Hydro-Power Plants To Halt Operations As Drought Worsens
One Of Spain’s Largest Hydro-Power Plants To Halt Operations As Drought Worsens A large drop in renewable energy output is forcing Spain to increase natural gas demand to generate electricity at a time Europe is in the worst energy crisis in a generation. Spain’s hydropower output has been halved this year due to drought, and things could […]
UCSB Scientists See the End of ‘Normal’ Climate
UCSB Scientists See the End of ‘Normal’ Climate Researcher Asks: ‘What Happens If You Know the Drought Is Never Going to End?’ Credit: Courtesy In August, Governor Gavin Newsom and officials from the Department of Water Resources released a new Water Supply Strategy, saying that because of California’s “hotter, drier climate,” the state needed to find […]
Water. Food. Energy.
Water. Food. Energy. Unless you have spent the past summer under a rock on a remote island, you have probably heard about the severe droughts besetting Asia, Europe, and the United States. Rivers turning into mere trickles. Crops failing or delivering less than half of their usual yields. Power plants shutting down due to a […]
Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants
Image by author Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants A Summer Update from Shipka This summer has been incredibly hot and dry, and even some of the older and more established trees have looked under strain. With increasing periods of hot and dry weather and pressure on both the mains water supply and our perennial […]
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years Besides the news of record high electricity prices, a troubling new crop failure report about Europe’s upcoming harvest was published Monday. The bloc’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources forecasted corn yields could drop by nearly a fifth due to a devastating drought, according to Bloomberg. Before […]
Hitler’s Scuttled Black Sea Fleet, Centuries-Old ‘Hunger Stones’ Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe
Hitler’s Scuttled Black Sea Fleet, Centuries-Old ‘Hunger Stones’ Emerge From Dry Riverbeds In Drought-Stricken Europe Extreme droughts across Europe are revealing thousands of years of lost history. In some regions, centuries-old warning messages etched into boulders have been exposed. As StrangeSounds.org reports, these rocks – known as “Hungersteine” or “Hunger Stones” One stone, embedded in the Elbe […]
Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts
Europe’s Nuclear & Hydropower Falter With Droughts As Europe looks to secure alternative energy sources to Russian gas in light of the war in Ukraine, Statista’s Anna Fleck warns, a new threat to energy security is stirring, this time from droughts. The droughts hitting Europe are impacting everything from food to transportation to the environment. In Italy, the River Po […]
“Worst I’ve Ever Seen”: Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought
“Worst I’ve Ever Seen”: Cotton Prices Soar After Historic USDA Cut Amid Megadrought US cotton prices continued to surge above the boom days of 2010-11 after a massive crop estimate cut by the USDA, shocking Wall Street analysts and traders, due primarily to a megadrought scorching farmland of Texas, according to Bloomberg. Futures in New York for December delivery […]
A Horrifying Drought Is Causing Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States And Europe
A Horrifying Drought Is Causing Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States And Europe We really are reaching a major crisis point. Thanks to soaring fertilizer prices, insane weather patterns and the war in Ukraine, global food supplies have been getting tighter and tighter. So we really needed a banner year for agricultural production in both […]
“Nothing Left In Pipes”: French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival
“Nothing Left In Pipes”: French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival Severe drought conditions affect about 60% of the EU, and in France, dozens of municipalities have run out of water and relied on a fleet of trucks hauling fresh water for survival. At least 100 towns and villages have run out of […]
Germany’s Industrial Heartland Faces Crisis As Rhine River May Become Impassable By Friday
Germany’s Industrial Heartland Faces Crisis As Rhine River May Become Impassable By Friday Water levels on the Rhine River are nearing dangerously low levels, and new forecasts expect Europe’s most critical waterway for inland commodity shipments via barges could be impassable by the end of the week. The river at Kaub, Germany, is 47 centimeters (18.5 […]
