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Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived.
Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived. An aerial view of the drying bed of the Paraná River in August as the water reached a historic low near Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP via Getty Images) BUENOS AIRES — Sergio Koci’s sunflower farm in […]
Lake Mead – The Largest Reservoir in the United States – Drops to a Record Low
Lake Mead – The Largest Reservoir in the United States – Drops to a Record Low August 7, 2000 August 9, 2021 The reservoir stands at its lowest level since the 1930s. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States and part of a system that supplies water to at least 40 million […]
Dry Corn Belt Ahead Of Pollination May Spell Disaster For Farmers
Dry Corn Belt Ahead Of Pollination May Spell Disaster For Farmers Kirk Hinz, a meteorologist with BAMWX, published an agriculture note Thursday which outlines “persisting rains” in some parts of the Southwest but “expanding dryness” in the north. Hinz concentrates on the corn belt, which spans the Midwest. He said, “expanding drought into a crucial […]
“Unprecedented Event” – Pacific Northwest Set To Shatter Heat Records This Weekend
“Unprecedented Event” – Pacific Northwest Set To Shatter Heat Records This Weekend A “historic” heat wave is set to transform the U.S. Pacific Northwest into a furnace this weekend. It has the potential to shatter long-standing temperature records, according to Reuters. “This will be setting the stage for the beginning of a potential historic heat wave […]
One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear
One Shocking Chart That Has Farmers Trembling With Fear Readers know by now that the Western US is facing one of the most severe droughts in years. We’ve documented (read here & here) this spring of a “megadrought” sweeping across states like California and Nevada as risks of a second Dust Bowl increase by the day. But in this note, […]
Ranchers Sell Off Cattle And Farmers Idle Hundreds Of Thousands Of Acres As America’s Drought Emergency Escalates
Ranchers Sell Off Cattle And Farmers Idle Hundreds Of Thousands Of Acres As America’s Drought Emergency Escalates In my entire lifetime, this is the worst that drought conditions have ever been in the western half of the country. During the past 20 years, the amount of territory in the West considered to be suffering from […]
Worst Drought in 91 Years Turns Brazil Into Hot Spot for LNG
Worst Drought in 91 Years Turns Brazil Into Hot Spot for LNG State-run oil company is seeking liquefied natural gas cargoes Water crisis curbs hydropower supplies across South America Brazil’s worst water crisis in almost a century is turning Latin America’s biggest economy into a hot spot for liquefied natural gas. As hydropower output declines, […]
Extreme Drought Puts California’s Power Supply At Risk
Extreme Drought Puts California’s Power Supply At Risk A more severe than usual drought in California has depleted reservoirs and lakes, including the ones feeding some of the largest hydropower facilities, putting the state again at risk of power outages during heat waves this summer. Last year, residents in California went through rolling outages as there was […]
Not just another drought: The American West moves from dry to bone dry
Not just another drought: The American West moves from dry to bone dry The American West is having a drought. So, what else is new? And, that’s just the point. The American West has been in an extended drought since 2000, so far the second worst in the last 1200 years. Here is the key […]
La Nina Turbocharges Drought In Brazil Putting World’s Coffee, Sugar, & Oranges At Risk
La Nina Turbocharges Drought In Brazil Putting World’s Coffee, Sugar, & Oranges At Risk Global crop and food prices are skyrocketing to multi-year highs, and the culprit could be due to La Nina, a weather pattern characterized by the cooling of the equatorial Pacific and triggers atmospheric shifts that cause droughts in some regions of the […]
California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state
California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state Majority of counties now under emergency declaration as California faces extensive dry spell and dwindling water supply Houseboats are dwarfed by the steep banks of Lake Oroville last month in Oroville, California. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California has expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the […]
Next on the List of American Catastrophes? A Western Megadrought
Next on the List of American Catastrophes? A Western Megadrought I’ve written many articles for The Organic Prepper about the coming food shortages. Not just in the United States but all across the world. Food isn’t the only thing that is soon going to be in short supply. Fresh, clean water appears to be one of the prime shortages facing […]
Could Cover Crops Help Fight Global Food Insecurity?
Could Cover Crops Help Fight Global Food Insecurity? Cover crops are grown to benefit the soil, not for harvest. Examples of cover crops can include peas, winter rye, sorghum and barley. The use of cover crops allows farmers to protect their soil before and after they harvest annual crops so that the ground is always […]
Cheap, Simple DIY Water Catchment and Irrigation
Cheap, Simple DIY Water Catchment and Irrigation Last year in foothills North Carolina, we had a hundred-year flood in June. Then we went three months without any rain at all. Some things produced well in spite of drought, but tomatoes really suffered and I hardly got any pumpkins. I was not able to keep things […]
Heat Wave To Bake Significant Parts Of US Through Mid-July
Heat Wave To Bake Significant Parts Of US Through Mid-July Extreme temperatures, mostly in the mid/the high 90s, are expected for the first half of July for much of the U.S., reported The Weather Channel. These hotter-than-usual temperatures have already begun this week and will bake a significant part of the country this holiday weekend, with elevated temperatures forecasted through the […]
