New satellite imagery shows a large swath of California’s rice fields has been left barren without harvest as fears of a ‘mini dust bowl’ emerge due to diminishing water supplies. Kurt Richter, a third-generation rice farmer in Colusa, the rice capital of California, told San Francisco Chronicle that fields upon fields of the grain have already transformed […]
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Satellite Image Reveals ‘Agriculture Wasteland’ Across California’s Rice Capital
“The Wasteland” director Ahmad Bahrami on Carthage festival jury
“The Wasteland” director Ahmad Bahrami on Carthage festival jury – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – Ahmad Bahrami, the director of the acclaimed Iranian drama “The Wasteland”, has been selected as a member of the jury of the Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. Winners of the narrative feature and short films will be selected by the jury, which […]
Trump’s baseless election claims march GOP into ‘policy wasteland’
In Georgia, where Democrats not only beat Trump in November but flipped the U.S. Senate in the runoff elections, the Republican-controlled state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill requiring an ID when requesting an absentee ballot. The following day, it was a bonanza across the country. The Iowa House passed a bill designed to limit […]
Gaza’s airport, once a symbol of statehood, is now a wasteland
At 8:50 a.m., I stopped a taxi in western Gaza City and asked the driver to go to the airport. The driver gazed at me as I sat next to him. He said: “Which airport? Do you mean the Cairo one?” I replied: “To the Gaza airport. Go to Rafah now, please.” Muhsin al-Balawi, the […]
Baltimore has turned into a Democratic wasteland with six schools that can’t even produce a single student proficient in English or math
(Natural News) Even though it spends more per pupil than every other large school district in the country save for two, Baltimore City Public Schools is failing to teach students even the basics they need to get by in life. Reports indicate that at least six schools in the district failed this past year to […]
US, Mexico sign deal on sharing satellite data directly
U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell shakes hands with Eduardo Sojo, president of INEGI, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography, after signing an agreement to share satellite data between the U.S. and Mexico, at the 2015 Ministerial Summit of the Group on Earth Observations, in Mexico City, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. The U.S. and Mexico […]