Submitted by climatechange on Tue, 05/17/2011 - 22:46
Parts of central Europe received than 40 percent of their mean rainfall from February to April. Dry conditions are expected to continue in most parts of Europe adding pressure to the commodity market. The unusually dry spring in top EU wheat producers France, Germany and Britain has revived drought fears after a dry summer in 2010 ravaged Russian and Ukrainian wheat harvests -- driving a surge in food prices around the world.News report:Little rain for Europe's farmers before June - LONDON (Reuters) - Drought in much of Europe looks set to continue with little relief for parched farmland until June at the earliest, forecasters say.
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Submitted by climatechange on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 14:32
Hurricane Tomas landed in Haiti's crowded camps for earthquake survivors, triggering flooding that killed at least seven people. It spared Haiti the worst of its fury even as its residents struggle to recover from the flooding and there is an increased concerns that the deluge of rain could
Submitted by climatechange on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 21:16
Pakistan's northern and northwestern provinces are hit by strong monsoon rains and rainwater is causing havoc in Punjab, Swat Valley and even Sindh. Pakistan's disaster management authority estimated that 650,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed.
Submitted by climatechange on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 10:04
A recent article in the journal Science discusses the historical droughts over Asia, based on tree-ring data. It is a first attempt to provide a spatial distribution of monsoon rainfalls based on those proxy data.
Submitted by climatechange on Sun, 02/14/2010 - 13:29
Foolowing a row last month over Himalayan glacier melt, U.N. panel of climate experts admitted to a overstatement on how much of the Netherlands is below sea level.
Submitted by climatechange on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 21:52
Changes in radiative forcing contribute to the trend of global warming but this trend also depends on how humankind interacts through changes in technology, economies, lifestyle and policy. Because of the uncertainties in future forcing trends, it has been difficult to develop adaptation and mitigation schemes.
Submitted by climatechange on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 22:55
The processes controlling the carbon flux and carbon storage of the atmosphere, ocean and terrestrial biosphere are temperature sensitive. Those are likely to provide a positive feedback leading to amplified anthropogenic warming as suggested by recent studies.
Submitted by climatechange on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 22:24
A recent reaserch article in the journal Nature show that monsoon rainfall in East Africa varied at half-precessional (~11,500-year) intervals, because the southeasterly and northeasterly Indian Ocean monsoons, which together create the bimodal seasonal distribution of equatorial rainfall, were strengthened in alternation when the inter-hemispheric insolation gradient was maximized.