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All posts tagged "drought"

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  US won’t provide food aid to N. Korea during its worst drought in 100 years

  North Korea is entering what it calls its “worst drought in 100 years” and the U.S. made it clear in a statement Wednesday that it has no plans to take part in providing food aid. The North...

  • Posted June 17, 2015
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  N. Korea suffering worst drought in a century, massive food shortages

  North Korea made it publicly known that it is going through the worst drought the country has seen in 100 years. Through its main news agency KCNA, the North has outlined the extent of the crisis by...

  • Posted June 16, 2015
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  California looks to Australia for tips on surviving drought

  SYDNEY (AP) — California has turned to the world’s driest inhabited continent for solutions to its longest and sharpest drought on record. Australia, the land poet Dorothea Mackellar dubbed “a sunburnt country,” suffered a torturous drought from...

  • Posted May 26, 2015
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  California golf courses tee up water-saving measures

  LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — At first glance, nothing seems amiss at this lush, members-only golf club in one of the priciest communities in Orange County. A bubbling fountain gurgles out of an artificial lake. Emerald-green fairways...

  • Posted May 13, 2015
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  [LA Times] Drought kills 12 million trees in California’s national forests

    Rangers in the San Bernardino National Forest call them “red trees.” Instead of the typical deep green color, large swaths of pine trees now don hues of death, their dehydrated needles turning brown...

  • Posted May 7, 2015
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  No more playing nice: California names, shames water wasters

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is done with gentle nudges and polite reminders to deal with its devastating drought. State regulators are naming and shaming local water departments that have let water wasters slide — and forcing...

  • Posted April 8, 2015
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  Rain, winds headed to California, but little drought help

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown stood in dry brown grass at a site normally covered in snow this time of year and declared the drought conditions gripping the state at its worst point...

  • Posted April 6, 2015
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