Climate Change putting a big dent in global coffee production
Mario Picazo
mardi, 16 juillet 2019 à 13:10 - Rising global temperatures are having a serious effect on some of the world s traditional sources of coffee.
Climate Change is affecting coffee production around the world, and one of the most affected countries is Colombia.
The South American nation, a leading exporter of prime Arabica coffee, has lost close to 40,000 hectares of coffee plantation land in the last 18 months, representing more than four per cent of the country s total acreage used for coffee cultivation. According to Colombia s National Federation of Coffee Growers (Fedecafé), since the 1990s the amount of land used for coffee cultivation has shrunk by 20 per cent, and the decline is likely to accelerate in the coming years.
Australia s wildfires are now generating their own weather
Digital Writers
mardi, 31 décembre 2019 à 16:18 - The massive fires are generating pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which can start more wildfires on their own.
Australia s enormous and widespread bushfires have now reached the point where they are generating their own weather, creating a feedback loop that will make the already dire situation worse.
That s according to the Bureau of Meteorology office for the state of Victoria, which says it s observed pyrocumulonimbus clouds above eastern parts of the state.
The mechanism by which these clouds form isn t completely understood, but to observers, the clouds will appear very similar to the kind of clouds known to produce thunderstorms.
Death toll rises, multiple injuries after tornadoes hit U.S.
Digital Writers
dimanche, 14 avril 2019 à 20:58 - After powerful storms ripped through parts of the southern U.S. Saturday, with fatalities reported, accounts of more injuries and damage have surfaced.
Communities across the southern U.S. are continuing to assess the damage and number of fatalities following a significant severe weather outbreak that originated in east Texas Saturday.
The death toll continues to rise and now includes at least seven, as reported by CNN Sunday evening.
The latest figure includes a Texas woman whose mobile home was destroyed Saturday night. Four other people were injured when the trailer was struck, Houston County Emergency Management Co-ordinator Roger Dickey told CNN.
Rare tornado judged probable in Northwest Territories
Caroline Floyd
lundi, 3 juin 2019 à 20:00 - Not somewhere you hear about a lot of tornadoes, but how rare was it?
It seems June 2 was a day for unusual tornadoes across Canada. While one unexpected twister tore a path through the National Capital Region, another looks to have gone north. Way north, in fact all the way to the Northwest Territories.
Video from Fort Smith, about 300 km south of Yellowknife and right along Alberta s northern border, shows what appears to be a tornado stirring up debris as it swirled through the town on Sunday afternoon around 4 p.m. MDT.