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Read news item: Ocean City storm damage limited
November 15, 2009
Widespread flooding reported along coast in Mid-Atlantic region read this article

Read news item: China's plan for Three Gorges' water level stalled
November 15, 2009
AP-Beijing Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month read this article

Read news item: West Coast Grapegrowers Confront Water Shortage
October 29, 2009
Farmers, businesses and residents fight over dwindling supply. read this article

Read news item: SMAP scientists brief NASA administrator Charles Bolden
October 28, 2009
JPL SMAP scientists brief NASA administrator. read this article

Read news item: Lake Lanier, focus of 'water wars'
October 14, 2009
(AP) ATLANTA -- The drought that plagued the Southeast has been over for months, but to many in north Georgia it didn't officially release its grip until Wednesday when it reached a height it hadn't topped in more than four years. read this article

Read news item: UNESCO: drought forces 100,000 Iraqis from homes
October 13, 2009
(AP) PARIS — Not war but drought has forced more than 100,000 people in northern Iraq to abandon their homes since 2005, with 36,000 more on the verge of leaving, UNESCO said Tuesday. read this article

Read news item: Scores Killed in Philippines Floods
September 28, 2009
CNN) -- The death toll from flooding in the Philippines climbed to 140 Monday as a tropical depression in the Pacific sparked new fears of flooding. read this article

Read news item: Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes
September 28, 2009
Unchecked global warming could bring a severe temperature rise of 4C within many people's lifetimes, according to a new report for the British government that significantly raises the stakes over climate change. read this article

Read news item: Dust storms spread deadly disease worldwide
September 27, 2009
Dust storms like the one that plagued Sydney are blowing bacteria to all corners of the globe, with viruses that will attack the human body. Yet these scourges can also help mitigate climate change read this article

Read news item: SMAP scientists brief Deputy NASA Administrator
August 27, 2009
Kyle McDonald and Erika Podest briefed Deputy NASA Administrator Lori Garver on SMAP during her visit to JPL on Thursday, August 27. The briefing was attended by JPL Director Charles Elachi and JPL Director for Earth Science and Technology Diane Evans. read this article

Read news item: India's failing monsoon
August 24, 2009
It never rains Aug 20th 2009 | BAMHETA, UTTAR PRADESH From The Economist print edition SHARMILA SHARMA, a farmer in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, lounges with three sisters-in-law and six buffaloes in the broad shade of a neem tree. It is not the blistering heat that is keeping the women away from their land of a little over an acre (0.4 hectares). Like most Indian farmers, the Sharmas have no access to irrigation systems. They depend on the monsoon rains that fall between June and September. This year the rains have not come. No rain, nothing, says Sharmila, as she flicks away flies with the edge of her scarlet sari. The family has been unable to plant its main sorghum crop, she says, and their buffaloes are becoming diseased, a euphemism for starving. read this article

Read news item: India monsoon rain 'below normal'
August 20, 2009
Page last updated at 11:07 GMT, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 12:07 UK Indian officials say that monsoon rains in the country are likely to be "below normal" triggering off fears about crop failure and high food prices. read this article

Read news item: Permafrost melting a growing concern
July 1, 2009
(Reuters) The amount of carbon locked away in frozen soils in the far Northern Hemisphere ... read this article

Read news item: Future of U.S. Water Supply Threatened By Climate Change
April 21, 2009
As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. read this article




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