Marilina Barreca has two grim options: feed her cows tainted fodder or set them to graze on barren hillsides as Sicily battles a crop-devastating drought which is sucking reservoirs dry."The situation is tragic," Barreca told AFP as she looked out over the Madonie Mountains, where her cows range free in pastures once rich with tufted grasses, but where there is little now for grazing.
Tragic situation : How a record drought is devastating Sicily
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Regular droughts could become the Mediterrenean s new normal due to climate change
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If patience rewards the good, then British researchers must be feeling pretty virtuous by now. It has taken seven – 7, count them – years to get from Brexit to a firm deal on the UK joining the EU’s flagship research programme. And now, following confirmation September 7th from both Brussels and London that a deal is agreed, UK researchers and entrepreneurs can gear up their formerly efficient machinery to garner EU grants directly from Brussels starting January 1.