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Droughts Bring Climate Change Home to Nepali Farmers
Posted by Inter Press Service: Naresh Newar on August 6th, 2012
Inter Press Service: Farmers in this fertile central district of south Nepal are convinced that an intense drought between May and early July that destroyed their maize crops is the result of climate change.
"Last year my farms produced over 20 quintals of maize, but this time I could barely harvest one quintal," 60-year-old farmer Padmakanta Poudel told IPS in the remote Jutpani village of the district.
Poudel explained that his family had taken bank a loan of over 500 dollars to invest on his maize farm. The...
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Climate change in Alaska forces break with tradition
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 6th, 2012
Washington Post: Residents of Kotzebue and Point Hope, Alaska reflect on how climate change is affecting their way of life. They are trying to keep their generation-old traditions alive in the face of beach erosion, changing migration patterns and diverging Alaskan weather.