US warns drought will push up food prices in 2013
Food prices are likely to rise in the US next year due to a drought gripping large parts of the Midwest, the US department for agriculture has warned. It forecasted that the price of...
Category: Drought
Drought Shrinks Mighty Mississippi
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A year after the Mississippi River swelled to near-historic proportions and flooded farms and homes from Illinois to Louisiana, the level along the waterway’s southern half is so low that cargo...
Drought worsens crop damage: World Food Concerns
(Reuters) – Corn and soybeans in the U.S. Midwest baked in an unrelenting heat wave on Monday with fears rising of big crop losses that will boost food and fuel prices and cut exports...
Extreme Weather and the Economy
(multimedia) Paul Walsh, The Weather Channel VP of Weather Analytics, looks at the first half of 2012, and how this hot, dry summer will affect the US economy in the coming months. Found on...
U.S. declares drought-stricken states largest natural disaster area ever
The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever. The declaration—which covers roughly half of...
Drought Sets New 21st-Century Benchmark
The latest weekly U.S. Drought Monitor report, released Thursday morning, shows drought encompassing more of the contiguous U.S. than at any other time since the report’s debut in January 2000. The analysis, compiled by...
Drought May Rival 1980s U.S. Scorcher That Cost $78 Billion
The drought in the U.S. Midwest that has pushed up corn prices 28 percent since June 15 may eventually rival a dry period in 1988 that cost agriculture $78 billion, a government meteorologist said. This...
Water pacts re-examined amid Arab Spring
There are moves to rewrite contentious water-sharing agreements that are becoming a major source of friction in the Middle East as water supplies shrink BAGHDAD, June 14 (UPI) — Amid the profound political changes sweeping...
Hundreds evacuated due to wildfires in Colorado and New Mexico
(multimedia) LAPORTE, Colo. – Firefighters on Sunday were fighting wildfires that have spread quickly in parched forests in Colorado and New Mexico, forcing hundreds of people from their homes and the evacuation of wolves...
Storms, Fires and Extreme Heat Sweep the Nation
(multimedia) Wild weather threw off some holiday plans this Memorial Day weekend.
