#Tree planting efforts aren’t replacing burned US forests

#Tree planting efforts aren’t replacing burned US forests

“#Tree planting efforts aren’t replacing burned US forests” DEER LAKE MESA, NM, Sept 9 — Experimental pine seedlings poke from the rocky New Mexico earth, the only living evergreens on a hillside torched by one of the US West’s drought-driven wildfires. These climate-smart sprouts about 30 miles east of Taos are part of a push to increase…

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#Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to clean energy

#Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to clean energy

“#Droughts shrink hydropower, pose risk to clean energy” SACRAMENTO, Calif./BRASILIA/SHANGHAI – Severe droughts are drying up rivers and reservoirs vital for the production of zero-emissions hydropower in several countries around the globe, in some cases leading governments to rely more heavily on fossil fuels. The emerging problems with hydropower production in places like the United States, China and Brazil…

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#Dry California tourist town to guests: ‘Please conserve’

#Dry California tourist town to guests: ‘Please conserve’

“#Dry California tourist town to guests: ‘Please conserve’” MENDOCINO, Calif. — Tourists flock by the thousands to the coastal town of Mendocino for its Victorian homes and cliff trails, but visitors this summer are also finding public portable toilets and signs on picket fences pleading: “Severe drought. Please conserve water.” Hotels have closed their lobby…

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#Skies clear, allowing aircraft to help fight California fire

#Skies clear, allowing aircraft to help fight California fire

“#Skies clear, allowing aircraft to help fight California fire” Thick smoke that held down winds and temperatures in the zone of the largest single wildfire in California history cleared Monday from scenic Northern California forestlands, allowing firefighting aircraft to rejoin the battle to contain the massive Dixie Fire. The newly clear skies will allow more…

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#Record wildfire burns amid drought on Hawaii’s Big Island

#Record wildfire burns amid drought on Hawaii’s Big Island

“#Record wildfire burns amid drought on Hawaii’s Big Island” HONOLULU — Firefighters gained more control over a wildfire in Hawaii that forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend and destroyed at least two homes on the Big Island, but officials warned that strong winds will return on Tuesday, raising the danger again. Authorities…

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#Thousands of flamingos die in drought in central Turkey

#Thousands of flamingos die in drought in central Turkey

“#Thousands of flamingos die in drought in central Turkey” ISTANBUL, July 15 – Thousands of baby flamingos have died at Turkey’s Lake Tuz in the past two weeks from a drought that environmentalists said was the result of climate change and agricultural irrigation methods. Drone footage of the large saline lake in Turkey’s central province…

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