China’s chief meteorologist has reported that the severe droughts of recent months should not significantly affect the country’s winter wheat harvest. From Xinhua: Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological...
Read MoreThe Globe and Mail reports that China’s severe drought – the worst in two centuries in some areas, according to Xinhua – is impacting food prices and supply around the world: China is grappling with drought...
Read MoreGlobal Times describes the means by which the snowfall was enticed, as well as its side effects: Weather modification staff worked at 33 locations through the night. By 6 am Thursday, 759 silver iodide rods had been burned in...
Read MoreShanghaiist has posted a gallery of photos from Netease, showing the effects of China’s severe drought which threatens to become the worst in 60 years—200 years, in the case of Shandong province. Historian Jeremiah Jenne...
Read MoreA severe drought in China is impacting food prices there and even, potentially, the situation in Egypt. From AP: Premier Wen Jiabao led a State Council meeting Wednesday on increasing grain production in the country that’s...
Read MoreThe ongoing severe drought in northern China is raising fears for the spring crop and for rising inflation and food prices. From the New York Times: President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao separately toured...
Read MoreA drought in many parts of China, including Beijing, is threatening drinking water supplies, crops, and food prices, BBC reports: Shandong province is experiencing its driest weather for 60 years. Half the wheat-growing land...
Read MoreAP reports: The drought in the provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, as well as the Guangxi Autonomous Region and the city of Chongqing, has forced local governments to tap underground water sources and use cloud seeding to...
Read MoreThe following news excerpts were tweeted by Lian Yue, translated by CDT: (1) From China News Net 2009-10-23 18:19:4 Dongting Lake, the second largest freshwater lake in China, is now in the most severe water crisis of the last...
Read MoreAFP reports on the drought in Guangdong province: More than 50,000 people in southern China’s Guangdong province are suffering from water shortages as a spreading drought has left farmers’ fields dry and cracked,...
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