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Venezuela turns to cloud seeding to battle drought
Nov 30 2009, Ricardo

Hugo Chavez says he is starting to “bombard” clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.

The Venezuelan president said Saturday night that...

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Venezuela rations water in response to drought
Cesar, Caracas
Residents of the Venezuelan capital on Monday began to experience water rationing as part of a government preservation measure during a drought. The rolling cuts to...
Politics & Society, Venezuela, Draught
made popular Nov 4 2009
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A Miracle Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers
Hesbon, Nairobi
Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started...
Politics & Society, Kenya, Biofule Plant
made popular Oct 5 2009
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Kenya’s elephants battle for survival amid draught
Mbugua, Nairobi
A drought in Kenya has gotten so bad that it is felling even the giants of the animal kingdom — the country’s famed elephants which are dying as rivers dry up...
Politics & Society, Kemya crisis, Draught
made popular Sep 11 2009
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Shame on agrarian India – Dozens of farmers committed suicide, again
Prabhunarayan, Pondicherry
Dozens of impoverished farmers struggling with debt and poor rainfall have killed themselves in southern India in recent weeks, leaving behind families plunged even...
Politics & Society, Farmers, Suicide
made popular Aug 28 2009
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In Parched Nairobi, Politicians Blamed For Drought Crisis
Gilbert, Nairobi
Across East Africa, drought is again leaving millions of people in dusty countryside hungry, thirsty and dangerously dependent on food aid, the United Nations has...
Politics & Society, kenya, Draught
made popular Aug 22 2009
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Silver lining behind the elusive dark clouds: H1N1 misses UP, MP!
Mohit Dubey, Ghaziabad
As many states including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana cry hoarse on the below average rainfall in their respective states, there is a silver lining...
Swine fle, H1N1 virus, Swine flue in UP
made popular Aug 13 2009
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Amid crop failure, periodic droughts, mice make tasty food in Malawi
Andrew, Lilongwe
Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls. The mice are hunted in corn fields after the...
Politics & Society, Food crisis, Draught
made popular Aug 10 2009
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Suffering never seems to end for Iraqis
Mustafa, Baghdad
“Maaku mai!” they shout, holding up their rusty sickles. “There is no water!” The Euphrates is drying up. Strangled by the water policies of Iraq’s...
Environment, Euphrates River, Draught
made popular Jul 15 2009
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El Nino seems all but certain
Goldman, Melbourne
An El Nino weather pattern this year appears almost certain, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said on Wednesday in a revised forecast, raising the prospect of...
Environment, El Nino, Draught
made popular Jul 1 2009
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Water Conservation
Shuchi Kalra, Lucknow
The issue of water conservation was discussed elaborately in the WATEC , Israel which was held from October 30 to 1 November, 2007. The conference emphasized upon the...
Environment, Technology, water, conservation
made popular Mar 20 2008
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People walk on a dried up pond at Hanzhuang village in Tangyin county in central China’s Henan province, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2009. A draught that has hit China’s six major grain production provinces is threatening China’s wheat production, according to...

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