Weirdly, and perhaps mercifully, this is the quietest day for climate-related news that I can recall.
“The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season’s unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity this summer: entire hillsides of trees turned from green to brown.
“We’ve observed extensive canopy dieback from southeast Queensland down to Canberra. Reports of more dead and dying trees from other regions across Australia are flowing in…”
“Food and other essential supplies have been trucked, ferried and flown in to people stranded by floodwaters in outback south west Queensland…
“Supplies are being flown in by helicopter to remote properties It followed a 21-year rainfall record broken last week for Thargomindah’s wettest day…”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-09/flooding-in-western-queensland-residents-stranded/12037282
“The Ruahine Range [Northland, NZ], usually considered to be a greener location, saw its driest four-month period in 50 years from November through February, and less than half the average rainfall in the past 12 months.
“Recent rainfall has had little or no impact on the most affected areas.”
“Vietnam’s “rice bowl”, the Mekong Delta, could be empty…
“water shortages have negatively affected some 33,000 hectares of rice fields and almost 70,000 households, Vietnam’s national television reported on Friday, citing the latest data from the country’s department of water resources.”
“At least 20 people in Pakistan are dead and dozens more injured after torrential rainstorms collapsed several homes, officials said on Saturday.
“Heavy rains have lashed stretches of the country near the Afghan border since Thursday.”
http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/590485/World/Asia/Torrential-rain-kills-at-least-20-in-Pakistan
“Dana Putnam drilled into a maple tree, added a plastic tube and waited for the sap to flow. Nothing happened.
“It’s the end of winter — prime tree-tapping time for New York maple farmers. But for Putnam, a fourth-generation maple farmer, last week was too hot for the trees to properly freeze, thaw and produce sap.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/07/climate-change-could-upend-new-yorks-maple-syrup-industry.html
“Record winter warmth around the globe has raised pressure on weather forecasters from utilities and financial markets that depend on models to work out the economic impact of climate change.
“Abnormally high temperatures led to billions of dollars of lost revenue for energy producers…”
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/record-winter-warmth-raising-pressure-060022273.html
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