by Carol Livingston | Jun 25, 2020 | Climate, Commodities, Environment, Weather
Drought has prevailed from Myanmar through Vietnam for months. With the Mekong River at some of its lowest levels in decades, monsoon rains began in parts of SE Asia in June. Starting in Tibet, the Mekong winds through six countries: China, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand,...
by Carol Livingston | May 4, 2020 | Black Swan, Climate, Commodities, Coronavirus, Environment, Markets, Weather
Oil’s price drop, changing weather patterns, armed conflicts, and COVID-19 may bring the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II by the end of 2020. “[W]e could be facing multiple famines of biblical proportions within a short few months,” David Beasley...
by Carol Livingston | Apr 22, 2020 | Climate, Environment
The news couldn’t be clearer this Earth Day. Fixing environmental issues can’t wait. Africa is facing drought, heavy flooding, and locusts, while Asia has changing rainfall patterns. The western United States and northern Mexico are in a megadrought. Scientists from...
by Carol Livingston | Apr 11, 2020 | Climate, Coronavirus, Environment
The Himalayas seen April 4 from Pathankot, in India’s Punjab. Photo: Twitter. Residents of northern India can now see the Himalayan snows, almost 100 miles away, thanks to decreased air pollution on the Indian sub-continent. “We can see the snow-covered...
by Jim Roemer | Mar 3, 2020 | Climate, Environment
Locusts have plagued farmers for millennia. According to the Book of Exodus, around 1400 B.C. the Egyptians experienced an exceptionally unfortunate encounter with these ravenous pests when they struck as the eighth Biblical plague....
by Jim Roemer | Jan 9, 2020 | Climate, Environment, Global Warming, Gold Member, Members, Silver Member
Over the last two years the combination of an occasional weak El Nino signal in the western Pacific, combined with CLIMATE CHANGE and the warming oceans have been a partial factor in the historical droughts and forest fires that have threatened millions of animals in...
