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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rania Dagash-Kamara, UNICEF's Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, about the crisis of food insecurity in Somalia as a result of extreme drought.
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The drought has meant a smaller than usual pumpkin crop in Texas this year. Farmers say that drop in supply will mean higher prices for pumpkins popular for fall display and Halloween carving.
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The National Weather Service reported the average mean temperature for this summer was 88.1 degrees, nudging out the 88 degrees recorded in summer of 2011.
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There's something different happening with plants’ response to this year’s drought in Texas. TPR contributor Daniel Ramirez spoke with woodland ecologist Karl Flocke of the Texas A&M Forest Service to find out what he's noticing.
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The Rio Grande Valley is the only region where producers expect to harvest what they planted.
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Despite record-setting downpours in some areas of Texas offering temporary relief to scorched parts of the state, drought conditions persist in some of the hardest-hit areas.
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A months-long drought in Texas has at least one town trucking in water for residents. Ranchers are facing tough business decisions without enough water for their cattle.
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New federal forecasts show the nation's two largest reservoirs on the river are expected to continue their rapid decline — putting the water supply for 40 million people in the southwest in jeopardy.
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A rainy weekend across the Texas-Mexico border region provided little relief to the dangerously depleted International Reservoirs in the region.
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Two county judges in the Rio Grande Valley issued declarations of disaster this week in response to the increasingly severe water shortage and ongoing drought in the region.