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...least a foot of water, have less than one or two inches. The corn, which should be as tall as I am at this time of year, is barely half my height. Prospects for both the rice and the corn harvests are bleak. Everything is parched, and with each rainless day, water is vanishing with cruel rapidity. One evening I was at a huge lake, the Sohung reservoir, in the country's breadbasket. To be accurate, I was at what was once a huge lake. It is 96% gone, simply evaporated into thin air. The man in charge appeared shaken...
Tropical dry forests differ from rain forests in that their precipitation is seasonal. During the rainy period, the landscape is verdant, but during the five to six months of the year that are rainless (early December to mid-May in Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia...
Those who take to the road in search of food fare little better. During each of the past four rainless years, as many as 20,000 peasants have abandoned the nine-state northeastern area of Brazil for crowded urban centers along the coast. There, they are paid 35? an hour and condemned to life in shantytowns. Some 50,000 people fled India's northwestern state of Rajasthan (pop. 34.2 million) last spring; those who stayed are often forced to sell their cattle for less than $1 a head or to smuggle them across the border into Muslim Pakistan, where...
...scat fall as a result, and the ears of a listener are tricked into informing his brain that a very light rain is pattering down. So far, the tourists have not seemed to understand what is happening, and are well pleased with the sound of very light rain on rainless days...
Fish was right. The netmen easily crushed the Nittany Lions yesterday in the windless, rainless Palmer Dixon Courts, upping their season mark to 6-3. The squad is 4-0 on the East coast...