This is part of a series. Previously weâve covered koalas and grizzly and black bears.
In Australiaâs outback, camels were so thirsty - they have invaded a town seeking water.
Record-breaking drought drove the thirsty creatures to trample fences, smash water tanks, and terrorize locals, the [...]
Janet Larsen
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Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country’s history. On February 9th, [...]
John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath was written in 1939, and it realistically illustrates the socio-economic impact of the Great Depression and the mid-30s drought on a fictional family, the Joads. The Joads represented the thousands of farmers who suffered great financial loss due to the depression [...] Temperatures across China’s Yangtze River Basin could increase from 1.5 to 2 °C (2.7 to 3.6 °F) over the next 50 years, while extreme weather events will also become more frequent, according to the largest river basin climate vulnerability assessment yet done. Some 400 million people depend upon the [...]
