Drought catastrophe stalks Australia&#39;s food bowl
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A thin winter green  carpets Australia&#39;s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging  the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation&#39;s food bowl.
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By Audra D.S. Burch And Kathleen Mcgrory, The Miami Herald  Jun. 28--The epic drought gripping Lake Okeechobee has opened a mud-spattered window into Florida's prehistoric past.
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Surging floodwaters forced scores of people to evacuate their homes in northeastern Australia on Monday, officials said, as farmers described heavy rains as a mixed blessing after years of drought.
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The response to the worst drought on record in the Southeast has unfolded in ultra-slow motion.
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Sydney and other Australian cities could run dry by 2006.
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While the south-east of Australia has gone through years of drought, new research shows the rest of the country including the centre, is getting wetter.
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Science & environment: Demand for food in refugee camps is leading to an unprecedented massacre of local wildlife, new reports claim. Stuart Coles investigates
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By CARPINTER, Bernard  DROUGHT in Hawke's Bay has left farmers facing a bleak winter in spite of recent rain, Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule has warned.
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Hunger and grief stalked Indonesia&#39;s devastated Aceh province yesterday as officials tried to reach remote areas where tens of thousands were thought to have died
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Soaring energy costs and one of the worst droughts to grip Kansas in a century have led farmers to work hard to conserve water.
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Australian forecasters said Thursday that the El Nino weather pattern blamed for the worst drought in a century had ended, and expressed cautious optimism much-needed rain was on the way.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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Drought, AIDS and chronic  poverty in the landlocked southern African states of Lesotho,  Swaziland and Zimbabwe are putting hundreds of thousands at  risk of hunger, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
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Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds.
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Australia reports a slowdown in economic growth, as the country continues to struggle with a severe drought.
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Exactly 20 years ago, when the world first woke up to television reports of Ethiopia's catastrophic drought, Girmay Assefa was staggering along hundreds of kilometres (miles) of road in the country's northern Tigray region searching for food with his mother, brother and two young sisters.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Food Program (WFP) has said it was gearing up for a &quot;critical stage&#39;&#39; in delivering food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflictin the western Sudanese region of Darfur.