[MCN] Drought around the world: Most recent update: Food/crops, wildlife

[Lance Olsen]

In Europe, drought conditions expanded through Central Europe and up 
to the North Sea. For the second month in a row, the European Union's 
crop monitoring service lowered the corn yield forecast for this 
year. In Asia, drought continues throughout central Russia and a ring 
from the Indian sub-Continent around eastern China and Mongolia. In 
China, drought in the northwestern Gansu Province led to 
implementation of the government's level-IV emergency response plan. 
In Africa, short-term drought eased slightly in the western part of 
the continent while continuing to strongly impact South Africa. In 
South Africa, there has been a culling of hippo and buffalo herds due 
to the poor condition of vegetation. In North America, drought 
remains entrenched along the western coast as well as through New 
England and the US Southeast. In the US Northeast, the apple crop has 
suffered due to the drought with noticeably smaller fruit produced 
this year. In South America, drought continues in Brazil as well as 
from the equator down along the Andes. Irrigation water for farms was 
restricted in Espirito Santo, where rivers were largely dry. In 
Oceania, drought continued nearly unchanged.

https://www.drought.gov/gdm/current-conditions
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"A surprising result is the high proportion of species responding to 
recent, relatively mild climate change (global average warming of 0.6 
C)."

Camille Parmesan. "Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent 
Climate Change." Annual Review of Ecol. Evol. & Systematics  2006. 
37:637-69
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