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Donald Trump Tells Drought-stricken California: 'There Is No Drought'
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring that: “There is no drought.” Speaking at a rally in Fresno, Calif., Trump accused state officials of denying water to Central Valley farmers so they can send it out to sea “to protect a certain kind of three-inch fish.” “We’re going to solve your water problem. You have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous where they’re taking the water and shoving it out to sea,” Trump said to cheers at a rally that drew thousands.
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Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million
Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop. Last year’s drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small meal a day, they may just have enough food for two more months.
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How Does the Fort McMurray Wildfire's Area Compare Across Canada
See how the size of a fire some called ‘the beast’ compares to the size of Canadian cities
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Drought, suicide and India’s water train
Some regions in India’s west are suffering from the worst drought on record with over 1,100 farmer suicides reported. By Harsha Vadlamani.
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Firefighters
A wildfire that started in western Arizona and jumped the Colorado River into California, near Needles, California, April 6, 2016.
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Ten Civilizations or Nations That Collapsed From Drought
Drought is the great enemy of human civilization.
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NASA study finds the Middle East faces its worst drought in 900 years that started in 1998
A NASA study has found that the Middle East is currently 18 years into the worst drought in the past 900 years. The current drought began in 1998 in the Eastern Mediterranean region and is directly affecting countries such as Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus and Turkey, according to NASA.gov.
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Ethiopia's Drought Is Worse Than During 'We Are the World' Famine
More than 10 million people are in need of food aid in Ethiopia amid a drought worse than the one that triggered the haunting 1984 famine, the U.N. has warned. Crops have withered, animals have died and water sources have dried up in parts of northeastern Ethiopia following the failure of the last two rainy seasons.
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Global Water Shortage Risk Is Worse Than Scientists Thought
More than two-thirds of the world's population faces water scarcity for at least one month during the year.
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US pledges $97m in emergency aid to drought-stricken Ethiopia
East African country has been especially hard hit by the seasonal warming over the Pacific Ocean – brought on by the El Niño climate phenomenon
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Train of Storms to Drench California, Southwestern US as El Nino Takes Hold
A series of storms will bring welcome rainfall across California and other portions of the southwestern United States this week.
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California Wildfire Closes Highways, Spurs Evacuations
Two well-known Southern California highways shut down Saturday due to a wildfire that's burned hundreds of acres and spurred mandatory evacuations.
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El Nino Drought Cuts Down on Christmas Lights in Colombia
This year's El Nino weather phenomenon is claiming an unexpected casualty in Colombia: Christmas lights. An exceptionally strong El Nino has created a severe drought that officials fear will empty reservoirs that are used to generate a good part of the South American country's electricity.
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2015 Was The Costliest Wildfire Season Ever
The U.S. Forest Service spent almost $2 billion fighting fires in 2015.
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To save water, an underground movement to bank El Niño's rainfall
Gary Serrato watched as a tractor worked its way across a field of dried-up weeds, slicing the sandy dirt into orderly furrows. The field was being readied not for a crop but for what he hopes will be a bountiful harvest of floodwater this El Niño winter. "We're going to capture as much as we can," said Serrato, general manager of the Fresno Irrigation District.
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Drought Adds Wrinkle to ‘Rain Room’ Exhibit in California
An artwork that lets visitors walk through a downpour without getting wet, a hit in New York in 2013, has taken on new meaning with its arrival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. By Adam Nagourney.
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California Drought Affects Winter Refuges for Migratory Birds
State's ongoing drought has left cranes, millions of other waterfowl that migrate from northern climes to winter in California with fewer places to land, and seek shelter and food
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Why is Indonesia's Wildfire so Hard to Put Out?
Created by humans, these fires just keep on burning due to underground stores of peat.
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Colonial Church Uncovered by Drought in Mexican Reservoir
A centuries-old Mexican church normally submerged in a reservoir is re-emerging amid a drought that has dropped water levels in the reservoir by 25 meters.
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Beavers: A Potential Missing Link in California's Water Future
The industrious rodents can offer a range of benefits for California water supplies and habitats. But they're still officially considered a pest. On California’s central coast, a region that usually receives drenching rainfall or fog for most of the year, some forests are now as arid as a desert. Streams that once ran at least at a trickle through summer have vanished in the ongoing drought, and environmentalists and fishermen fear that...
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