Dry as a bone: Drought's wide impact is likely to last for years.
- of all natural disasters, drought is the most common and the least
understood. around Kansas city, drought creeps — first claiming the Missouri crop grower, then the Kansas cattleman who can’t afford grain
to feed livestock.
Scientists discover pacific ocean contains higher than normal levels of caffeine. - if you've ever fancied a quick pick me up at the beach, you may not have
far to look. scientists said they have found elevated levels of
caffeine at several sites in the pacific ocean off the coast of Oregon.
Record summer temperatures, by the numbers. - the weather this summer has been so extreme that it has rivaled the most
destructive and unbearable summers in u.s. history, years that are
infamous in weather lore. those years include 1988, which was the year
that nasa scientist james hansen first warned the u.s. senate about the
consequences of manmade global warming.
Drought affects large swaths of U.S.
- a devastating drought has taken over areas of the rocky mountains and
midwest. author and conservationist william debuys tells renee montagne
that one of the shocking things has been the number of new high
temperature records. - morning edition npr
Lobster catch bottoms out. - prior to a massive die-off in 1999, Connecticut's lobster fishery was
worth more than $100 million a year. now, it's a fraction of that, and
researchers from the state department of energy and environmental
protection are embarking on another study looking at the effect
pesticides may have played in the die-off.
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