Amidst the looming food crisis across the country, Augustine Akutu’s home is akin to an oasis overflowing with cassava tubers. When you visit his home in Amuria District you will mistake it for a rich cassava island.
Category: Drought
Who Declares A Famine? And What Does That Actually Mean?
Lucia Adeng Wek holds her 3-year-old son, Wek Wol Wek, who suffers from malnutrition. They’re at a clinic in South Sudan run by Doctors without Borders and were photographed on October 11, 2016.
FEATURE-Cartoons and calendars help Bolivian farmers dampen fire risk
A mix of high-tech satellite data and brightly colored cartoons is helping subsistence farmers around Riberalta in Bolivia’s northern Amazon pick the best time to burn off their land and reduce the risk of uncontrolled blazes, as persistent drought makes wildfires a hot issue in Latin America. “Fire is a real problem with these communities – it’s something they’re very concerned about,” said Veronica Ibarnegaray, program director at Bolivia’s Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza , explaining that slash-and-burn farming for crops and cattle is largely to blame.
Landsat 8 Images Show Rains Reviving Central Coast Reservoirs
Images captured by a satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base four years ago show the dramatic difference in water levels for two Central Coast reservoirs due to recent rains. Lake Nacimiento is now at 86 percent full, while Lake San Antonio – virtually dry before – sits at 32 percent full, as of Friday, according to Monterey County Water Resources Agency.
Why Trump’s plans to defund NASA’s Earth Science budget are misguided
Recent news stories report that President Trump and some of his appointees have plans to defund NASA’s Earth Science budget and focus it on planetary exploration only. Two reasons are given: to return NASA to its “original mission”, and a skepticism of climate research.
Sinking land concerns California
Land in California’s Central Valley is sinking so much from over-pumping of groundwater during the drought that officials said Thursday they will press for new laws to limit drilling. The sinking threatens to curtail as much as one-fifth of water deliveries through the vital California Aqueduct to San Joaquin Valley farms and millions of Southern California residents, state water managers said.
Big telcos may take wi-fi away from rural families: provider
A small internet provider helping to end the data drought in regional southern Queensland says it could soon be outbid by larger internet companies on digital spectrum access, thanks to a review by the Australian Communications and Media Authority . Toowoomba-based company Red WiFi has been using elevated positions on silos, water tanks and sheds to install dishes that stream wireless internet across rural communities, offering unlimited data to hundreds of families.
Satellite Imagery Aids in Prediction and Prevention of Food Crises
Commercial satellite imaging has penetrated the earth’s layers and made the concept of location-based services popular across industries. Now the technology which has empowered so much commercial progress is being called on to address some of the world’s most significant humanitarian crises.
After August floods, outlook on crawfish season still in limbo
Stanley Woolfolk, left, and Jeremiah Smith pour a can of fresh, hot boiled crawfish into a distribution bin, Friday, January 13, 2017, at Tony’s Seafood in Baton Rouge, La. Jeremiah Smith hands a sample of a crawfish to customer Markeith Pounds, Friday, January 13, 2017, at Tony’s Seafood in Baton Rouge, La.
The California drought is on its way out, but deeper droughts lie ahead
After a week of being walloped by major storms that have dumped copious rain and snow on the state, California is finally emerging from a deep, years-long drought. Ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada mountains are flush with snow, while key reservoirs have filled back up .
NASA Study Finds a Connection Between Wildfires and Drought
The Suomi NPP satellite detected these fires in Africa on January 30, 2016. Ichoku hypothesizes that such fires play a significant role in altering rainfall patterns.
Santa’s Warmest Christmas EverJay Michaelson
While the North Pole experiences its second record-hot year in a row, the GOP’s carnival of dunces continues to sow doubt in Washington. Hopefully Santa’s sleigh has mud flaps.