SBA Announces Ticking Clock Federal Drought Relief Assistance for New Jersey, Farmers Ineligible
TRENTON, N.J. — The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses and private nonprofit organizations in New Jersey that they have until Aug. 11 to apply for federal disaster loans to…
Murphy Administration Issues Drought Warning for New Jersey
TRENTON — The Murphy administration issued a statewide Drought Watch on Friday, urging residents and businesses to voluntarily conserve water as dry conditions persist across New Jersey. The state has experienced significantly…
Frostburg Residents Urged to Conserve Water Amid Drought
FROSTBURG, Md. — The City of Frostburg is calling on residents to begin voluntary water conservation efforts in response to ongoing drought conditions and declining water levels at Piney Reservoir. City officials…
Record wildfires hit Venezuela during climate-driven Amazon drought
By Jake Spring, Mircely Guanipa and Maria Ramirez SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released on Monday, as a climate change-driven drought…
Iowa’s drought conditions have farmers budgeting water use
By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO (Reuters) – As Iowa heads toward its fourth year of drought, grain farmers prepping for planting next month are facing mandatory water restrictions and livestock producers are searching…
Drought Conditions Lifted Across Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG, PA — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has announced a significant improvement in the state’s drought status. Following a meeting of the Commonwealth Drought Task Force, the drought watch/warning…
Explainer-California rains: good for drought, fuel for wildfires
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – The atmospheric river that has inundated California is a mixed blessing, at once easing drought conditions and promoting threatened fish species while also nourishing the growth of…
Panama Canal ‘understands’ Maersk move to rail amid drought
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The Panama Canal said on Friday it “understands” clients’ decisions to turn to alternative shipping methods as the canal, one of the world’s busiest trade…
Impending Winter Storm Could End New York City’s Two-Year Snow Drought
NEW YORK CITY, NY – New York City might witness the end of its historic two-year snow drought this weekend as a winter storm system approaches. This could bring significant snowfall to…
Fuel tankers face long slog as Panama Canal drought reroutes flows
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil tanker Cururo is taking the long way from Houston to Chile: sailing the length of South America’s Atlantic coast, across the Strait of Magellan and…
Panama Canal drought to delay grain ships well into 2024
By Karl Plume (Reuters) – Bulk grain shippers hauling crops from the U.S. Gulf Coast export hub to Asia are sailing longer routes and paying higher freight costs to avoid vessel congestion…
Brazil shipping agents warn clients drought disrupting corn shipping on barges
By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A severe drought is disrupting barge traffic on the Tapajos river in the Amazon rainforest, shipping agencies told clients this week as Brazil enters the…
IMF sees drought causing Argentina contraction of 2.5% in 2023
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it is now projecting Argentina’s economy will contract 2.5% in 2023, with a year-end inflation rate of about 120%,…
US Midwest drought expands, but forecast rains offer relief to crops
By Karl Plume CHICAGO (Reuters) – The most intense drought to hit the U.S. Midwest farm belt since 2012 deepened over the past week, sapping soil moisture and threatening crop yield potential…
EF Hutton, bank behind Trump’s SPAC deal, rules over IPO drought
By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) – EF Hutton, the small investment bank that arranged a deal for the stock market listing of Donald Trump’s social media venture, is dominating initial public…
Kansas farmers abandon wheat fields after extreme drought
By Tom Polansek WICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) – Farmers in Kansas, the biggest U.S. producer of wheat used to make bread, are abandoning their crops after a severe drought and damaging cold ravaged…
Brazil’s Haddad raises concerns about economic situation, drought in Argentina
By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad expressed serious concerns on Thursday that Argentina’s economic challenges and a major drought there could affect the country’s “political destiny”…
Raymond James profit misses estimates as deals drought extends
(Corrects dateline, day in paragraph 1, typo in headline) (Reuters) – Raymond James Financial Inc missed Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit on Wednesday as a prolonged dealmaking slump weighed on the…
Spain’s drought devastates olive oil output, drives world prices up
MADRID (Reuters) – Drought in Spain, the world’s largest olive oil producer, is likely to halve the country’s output this year compared with the previous year, official estimates from the European Commission…
El Nino seen boosting U.S. cotton output after worst drought in years
By Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) – The El Nino weather pattern could boost yields in the second half of the year for U.S. cotton farmers, who were forced to abandon a big chunk…
Argentina drought saps dollar reserves, pressuring FX crawling peg
By Walter Bianchi and Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s slow-and-steady currency devaluation plan is coming under rising pressure as a historic drought pummels exports of cash crops soy and corn,…
Supreme Court Hears Pivotal Water Rights Case As Drought Grips Western States
Supreme Court Hears Pivotal Water Rights Case As Drought Grips Western States Katelynn Richardson on March 20, 2023 During Monday’s oral arguments for Arizona v. Navajo Nation, the Supreme Court considered whether…
U.S. warns California cities to prepare for fourth year of drought
By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Federal water managers on Monday urged numerous California cities and industrial users to prepare for a fourth dry year, warning of possible “conservation actions” as…
Exclusive-Argentina set to permit wheat export delays amid drought – sources
By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government is set to announce measures, potentially within days, to allow wheat exporters to delay agreed shipments after a major drought hammered the crop,…
U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust as Plains drought persists
By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) – With planting roughly halfway complete, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains,…
Climate Activist Celebrities Accused Of Wasting Thousands Of Gallons Of Water While State Suffers Drought
Climate Activist Celebrities Accused Of Wasting Thousands Of Gallons Of Water While State Suffers Drought Jack McEvoy on August 23, 2022 Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Kevin Hart are among several celebrities…
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