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Posts Tagged ‘region’
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Aug 20th, 2010,
The mismanagement of irrigation, compounded by drought and a drop in commodity prices, has spelled disaster for Australia’s most important agricultural region. The waters of the Darling River and the massive Murray irrigate a region that produces almost half of Australia’s fresh produce. But the worst drought in over 100 years has plunged the Murray-Darling Basin into crisis causing economic hardship and many farmers to pack up and leave. Australian climate scientists see the country as ‘extremely vulnerable’ to climate change and the Murray-Darling Basin as a ground zero for global warming. Climate change advisors to Australia’s government have warned…
Tags: agricultural, australia, Australian, Basin, climate, Climate change, Darling, drought, Independent, Kathy Marks, Murray, Murray-Darling, region, river
Climate Change, Politics, Apr 16th, 2010,
When US President Barack Obama opened up large areas of America’s Atlantic coastline to new oil drilling two weeks ago, some astute observers suggested that it might not be much more than a political maneuver. There is a distinct lack of knowledge concerning how much oil is out there; estimates put the amount of the Atlantic coast at 2 billion barrels (or 100 days of consumption) to 10 billion. According to a Newsweek article, it will be decades until we know how much oil, if indeed any, the Atlantic coast is hiding. By contrast, the still off-limits Pacific coast is…
Tags: Atlantic, Brazil, cleavages, Climate change, coast, crude, drilling, Espírito Santo, offshore, oil, region, rio, Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, state, states, US, Virginia
