The driest spring on record has taken a striking toll on the North Coast's pastures and hayfields, with more than $22 million in losses from drought and freeze reported.Requests for disaster aid from 24 California counties put the ...

Storms Bring Drought Relief.

“The new seed can grow even in drought-prone areas and will produce higher yields. In Asia and Africa, where water shortage is a major issue, the new seed will be a boon for farmers,” Varshney, whose specialisation is applied genomics, ...

And drought isn't the only thing putting a damper on this year's displays. In February, a massive explosion destroyed 20 fireworks warehouses in China. That caused a shortage in some places and driving prices up enough that some towns ...

Climate change is expected to exacerbate drought events throughout the world, resulting in large-scale ecosystem alteration and failure of drought-sensitive crops. In addition, periods of drought vary from year to year in severity and ...

They bike to work, have solar panels, dry their laundry on a line. So when they stopped watering their lawn in drought-stricken California, who would have thought they’d get fined more than $700 for letting their grass go brown.”

A science session entitled 'Drought-tolerant plants: helping the world to cope with global warming' is scheduled to take place on 21 July in Barcelona, Spain. It will take place in the framework of the EuroScience Open Forum 2008 …

Woodland, Calif. -- Having to make due with less water, California farmers are reassessing their planting of tomatoes, cotton, corn and other water-intensive crops.

I have a lot of work to do if I want to fill up that ginormous freezer, so today I harvested a bunch of basil. And by a bunch, I mean this much: (FYI, that's the bowl of the awesome Pampered Chef Salad Spinner). ...

rec.music.artists.springsteen: For Those of us Who Live In A Drought & Wildfire States.