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United Kingdom: Get ready for lots of dry summers as Government warns water companies of droughts
Posted by Daily Mail: David Derbyshire on May 21st, 2011
Daily Mail: Areas of Britain left bone dry by near-drought conditions were yesterday warned they were experiencing 'a taste of things to come`.
Environment minister Lord Henley said climate change would make parched springtimes more common and bring the threat of hosepipe bans.
England and Wales experienced a fifth of the normal rainfall in April, while March was the driest since 1961.
Scorched: A dried-up reservoir in Matlock. Water levels are 40 per cent lower than normal as companies are urged to...
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Amazon rainforest hit by second ‘once in a century drought’ in five years
Posted by Daily Mail: David Derbyshire on February 3rd, 2011
Daily Mail: Amazon rainforest hit by second 'once in a century drought' in five years
The Amazon has been hit by its second 'once in a century' drought in five years, scientists say.
A study found that last year's drought was even more severe and more widespread than the disastrous water shortages that gripped the world's largest rainforest in 2005.
The extended dry season is thought to have wiped out swathes of the Amazon, killing millions of trees, amphibians, fish, birds and mammals.
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Environmentalists ‘exaggerated’ threat to tropical rainforests from global warming
Posted by Daily Mail: David Derbyshire on November 12th, 2010
Daily Mail: The threat to tropical rainforests from climate change may have been exaggerated by environmentalists, according to a new study. Researchers have shown that the world's tropical forests thrived in the far distant past when temperatures were 3 to 5C warmer than today. They believe that a wetter, warmer future may actually boost plants and animals living the tropics. The findings, published in the respected journal Science, come from a study of pollen trapped in rocks during a natural period of...