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Colorado Farmland Goes Dry as Suburbs Secure Water Supplies
“Colorado farmers still own more than 80 percent of water flowing in the state, but control is rapidly passing from them as growing suburbs move to secure supplies for the future.
The scramble is intensifying as aging farmers offer their valuable water rights to thirsty cities, drying up ag land so quickly that state overseers are worried about the life span of Colorado’s agricultural economy.
‘The status quo has been going to agriculture (interests) and buying and drying. That’s not good,’ said John Stulp, a cattle rancher and former state agriculture commissioner who is Gov. John Hickenlooper’s special policy adviser on water. ‘We need to do it in a smarter way.’
Since 1987, Colorado farmers and ranchers have sold at least 191,000 acre-feet of water to suburbs, according to a review of water transactional data. (That’s enough water to fill Chatfield Reservoir nine times— and enough to sustain 382,000 families of four for a year.)” Read more.
29% of Fish and Seafood Species Have Collapsed, Global Collapse of Seafood Imminent
… “‘Whether we looked at tide pools or studies over the entire world’s ocean, we saw the same picture emerging. In losing species we lose the productivity and stability of entire ecosystems,’ said the lead author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. ‘I was shocked and disturbed by how consistent these trends are; beyond anything we suspected.’
The study focused on oceans, but lakes, rivers and other freshwaters were also analyzed over the four-year study. The team looked at 32 controlled experiments, 48 studies of marine protected areas, and global catch data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s 1950 to 2003 worldwide fish and invertebrates database. They also studied archives, fishery records, sediment cores and archaeological data for 12 coastal regions, making up a 1,000-year time series.
‘At this point, 29 percent of fish and seafood species have collapsed. That is, their catch has declined by 90 percent. It is a very clear trend, and it is accelerating,’ Worm said. ‘It looks grim and the projection of the trend into the future looks even grimmer, but it’s not too late to turn this around. It can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single species management to ecosystem management. It just requires a big chunk of political will to do it.'” Read more.
Chinese Drought Could Cause Global Food Crisis
“A world kept busy lately watching, first, the revolts in the Middle East, and now, the tragic aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, should keep an eye too on the weather in China, where widespread drought may soon make the emerging global crisis over rising food prices much worse worldwide.
The worst drought in sixty years is threatening the wheat crop in China, the world’s largest wheat producer. Traditionally self-sufficient in grain, the Chinese may be compelled to tap some of their $2.85 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to import wheat to feed their hungry people. This could further roil an already restive world by driving up food prices in many poorer countries that rely of necessity on increasingly costly imported food.
Many in those countries are already desperate for grain. World food prices are at record highs. The soaring price of food is placing millions at risk of malnutrition and hunger, and is stoking social and economic instability worldwide. As with the French Revolution in 1789, the unfolding Arab revolutions of 2011 have been inspired in part by the rising price of bread.” Read more.
Food Prices See Biggest Soar in Nearly 40 Years
“Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years. Excluding those volatile categories, inflation was tame.
The Labor Department said Wednesday that the Producer Price Index rose a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in February — double the 0.8 percent rise in the previous month. Outside of food and energy costs, the core index ticked up 0.2 percent, less than January’s 0.5 percent rise.
Food prices soared 3.9 percent last month, the biggest gain since November 1974. Most of that increase was due to a sharp rise in vegetable costs, which increased nearly 50 percent. That was the most in almost a year. Meat and dairy products also rose.” Read more.
Livestock Disease Fuels Food Concerns
A fast-spreading livestock disease in North Korea threatens to aggravate the chronic food shortage in the reclusive country, where oxen are key to farm production.
More than 10,000 oxen, cows, and pigs have been infected in the outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease, and thousands have already died, North Korea’s official news agency said in a statement last week. Read more.
China’s Wheat Crop at Risk, World Wary
In an alert issued this week, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned that more than two-thirds of China’s gigantic wheat crop may be under risk “because of substantially below-normal rainfall” this winter. Read more.
Food Prices to Rise as Sysco Invokes ‘Act of God’ Clause for Food Supply
Americans can expect food prices to rise massively over the next few weeks to months as the harsh weather effectively destroyed the Mexican winter crops. Read more.
We Have Major Food Crisis on Our Hands
Many major crops were destroyed in catasrophes that happened last year and this year, Russia, Australia or Brazil to name the few were all influenced by catasrophic natural events. Read more.
Mexico loses 80-100% of Crops to Freeze, US Prices to Skyrocket
The cold weather experienced across much of the US in early February made its way deep into Mexico and early reports estimate 80-100 percent crop losses which are having an immediate impact on prices at US grocery stores with more volatility to come. Read more.
Food Crisis 2011? 14 Disturbing Facts That Make You Wonder If The Coming Global Food Shortage Has Already Begun
Will 2011 be the year that we point to as the beginning of the great global food crisis? Food prices are soaring, supplies are very tight and already we have seen some very intense food protests flare up around the globe this year. When people don’t have enough to eat, they tend to become very desperate, and unfortunately it looks like the global food situation is not going to improve much any time soon. Right now the world is really struggling to feed itself, and with each passing day there are even more mouths to feed. Read more.
Orange Crops Squeezed by Cold Weather, Incurable Disease
Orange juice, an American breakfast table staple, may eventually become a rare treat if damaged crops continue to sour the citrus industry. Read more.
Israel National News
- Over 350 Hezbollah terrorists eliminated in Operation Roaring Lion
- IDF launches strikes on Iranian regime terror targets in Tehran
- Home Front Command soldiers deployed at impact site in central Israel
- Iranian missiles hit central Israel, spark blaze and cause damage
- Residents of central Israel permitted to leave protected spaces
- Sirens activated in central Israel due to launches from Iran
- Sirens in Avivim, northern Israel
- Sirens in northern Israel due to UAV infiltration
- Residents of northern Israel permitted to leave protected spaces
- Sirens in Kiryat Shmona and the area
FrontPage Magazine
- 2 Islamic Terrorist Attacks in 1 Day
- House ‘Sharia-Free Caucus’ Turns 50
- We the People Never Voted for Mass Islamic Immigration
- Did Islamic Polygamy Lead to Record $14M PPP Fraud?
- Jihad at Old Dominion University
- Ohio HS Teacher Delivers Bonkers Anti-Trump Rant in Class
- Iran’s President vs. The Revolutionary Guards
- Video: Jamie Glazov Delivers A Wake-Up Call on the Ideological War Waged Against American Values
- The Pope at War: Pius XII, Hitler, and the Enigma of Silence
- Islamic Call Invades England’s Biggest Soccer Stadium
Gatestone Institute
- Spain's Pedro Sánchez and His Extremist Problem
- Before Pouring Billions into Gaza, Trump's 'Board of Peace' Needs To Ask A Few Hard Questions
- If Saudi Arabia Wants U.S. Alliance, It Must End Support for Sudanese Armed Forces — Aligned with Muslim Brotherhood and Iran — Not Fund It
- UN and EU Condemn the Strike, Not the Regime: Double Standards, Selective Outrage
- Why Fusion Energy Needs to Be American Born – Now More Than Ever
- To Defend the Abraham Accords, Trump Must First Defend the UAE
- A Dangerous Prelude to Trump's 'Board of Peace' in Gaza?
- Make or Break Time for Iran's Remaining Allies
- Tehran Chooses the Samson Option
- The Only Brave Leaders Standing Against Iran's Reign of Terror
Middle East – The Jerusalem Post
- Iranian aircraft leaves India with sailors, bodies as Indian ships granted passage through Hormuz
- National Security Council issues warning for Israelis in UAE amid Iranian threat
- Lured by profits, some shipowners brave mines and missiles to sneak oil past Iran
- Israel declines Lebanon's offer for direct talks, sources say
- UN seeks $308 million for Lebanon as war displaces 800,000 people
- UAE says Iran must halt attacks on neighbors to allow diplomacy
- Explosion rocks Tehran square during Quds Day march, Iranian state media says
- A changing battlefield: Five takeaways from Israel's war with Iran, two weeks in
- Two killed in Oman following drone strike, Iranian missile reportedly targets Turkish NATO airbase
- WATCH: IDF strikes over 150 regime terror targets across central, western Iran
Earthquakes & Volcanic Activity
- Fuego Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: CONT VA EM LKLY
- Volcanoes Today, 13 Mar 2026: Fuego volcano, Popocatépetl, Soputan, Tangkubanparahu, Merapi, Semeru, Shiveluch, Lokon-Empung
- World Earthquake Report for Friday, 13 March 2026
- Ibu Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION LAST REPORTED AT 13/1630Z EST VA DTG: 13/1850Z
- World Earthquake Report for March 2026
- Aoba Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION AT 20260312/1900Z LOW LEVEL ERUPTION
- Shiveluch Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA CONTINUOUSLY OBS IN SATELLITE IMAGERY OBS VA DTG: 13/1720Z to 28000 ft (8500 m)
- Sangay Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: PSBL LGT VA EM
- Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Réunion): lava flow cut main road
- Sabancaya Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NO VA EMISSIONS
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