Word: droughts
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...western Kansas ranchers claim a certain kinship with those fictional adventurers because they too have been brutalized by the great weathers of the plains. After the record drought of 1988, they are weakened and vulnerable to a huge, leering sky that still will not yield moisture...
...real life. Meanwhile, Les Brown of Worldwatch Institute quietly sent out copies of his State of the World report, which will reach 250,000 leaders in 150 nations. The report has become something of a bible on the precariousness of our food supply. Brown's warning: if the drought continues, food security could be a bigger problem by fall than military security...
...dwindling reserves, now down to one-third of our stocks of just two years ago. The world's carry-over supplies have been reduced from 101 days of food consumption to 54 days, which is just about enough to keep the global food pipeline filled. "If the drought goes on," says Brown, "we could see a frantic scramble for supplies that would shake up the world economy...
...describe animals fleeing Mozambique to crowd into protected areas in Zimbabwe. The killing of older animals with the biggest tusks threatens to reduce herds to what Tanzanian game manager Constantius Mlay describes as collections of naive teenagers without the wise old elephants needed as leaders in times of drought and food scarcity...
...percent capacity and is down this year to 68 percent. It is at its lowest level since March 1967, when it fell to 45 percent. The last water emergency was declared when the reservoir's level was 65 percent in 1965, the beginning of a four-year drought, according to MDC records...