Australia's dry threatens wine drought
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YENDA, Australia  - The winding lines of shipping containers outside Casella Wines may mark the high-point of Australia's A$3 billion wine export market as drought and possible climate shift bite.
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A collection of more than  50,000 bottles of Australian fine wines will be sold online  from Friday following the collapse of a wine investment company  in what the auctioneers say is the country&#39;s largest wine  auction.
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Europe's top wine-producing countries could be forced to dig up a large portion of their vines under European Commission reforms.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment and property as they compete with native animals for food and water.
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Thousands of Australians started  returning home on Monday after floods and storms in the  wine-making Hunter Valley area eased, but residents downstream  near the city of Newcastle braced for floodwaters, officials  said.
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Australia will find itself outside a &quot;club&quot; of the world&#39;s nations now that the Kyoto Protocol is likely to come into force, and its businesses will suffer, experts warned yesterday.
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Australia's drought-hit farmers must embrace change to cope with climate change, including considering the increased use of genetically modified crops, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Thursday.
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Dramatic flooding replaced relentless drought in parts of eastern Australia Thursday, as Prime Minister John Howard expressed hopes that the country&#39;s worst drought in a century may be coming to an end.
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When bears wake early from hibernation,  Australia suffers its worst drought in 100 years and multiple  hurricanes hammer Florida should we believe The End is nigh?
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There is a warning that some of Australia's major cities could run out of drinking water.
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Australia's wheat crop is set to double as heavy rains offset a record drought, official forecasts show.
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Scientists predict that rainfall in Australia's agrarian south may reduce by 15 percent in the coming decades.
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JORDAN, Ontario -- It's almost midnight. Snow flurries ride down on the breath of a starless sky, and the 15-degree air pricks at bare skin. It's a perfect time, Len Pennachetti concludes, to go out in a field and pick grapes.
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California will become hotter and drier by the end of the century, threatening its valuable wine and dairy industries, US experts say.
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No Australian has ever won the Funai Classic at Disney World, but there were signs here today of an impending break in the drought.
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By Mike McCormick; Vicky Eckenrode< Morris News Service  ATLANTA - A dry winter coupled with record high temperatures has resulted in a  nationwide drought that's left farmers and water officials praying for rain.
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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.