Global warming's dire effects

Reuters video reports on the trickle-down effects of global warming from melting glaciers to drought.

Lima, Peru is the driest city on earth because of the rapid decline of the glaciers that supplied rivers and other water sources, according to the report.

Australia is also experiencing a seven-year drought, the longest on record and no end in sight.

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Kenya wildlife starve through drought

Global Post reports on how Kenya's drought is affecting not only the people but also the wildlife.

Ten Rare white rhinos (picture right) were moved from drought-stricken Lake Nakuru National Park and released at Nairobi NP, but they are among the lucky survivors

“This is the third year without rain so all the grass is gone. What we’re left with is a barren land of carcasses,” Cynthia Moss (a renowned conservationist who studies the elephants of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park) told GlobalPost.

Moss said this year’s drought is about as bad as she has known in 37 years of researching Amboseli’s elephants. “We had very bad droughts in '76, '84 and 2000 but this is the worst I’ve seen. The old Maasai — the wazee — say it hasn’t been this bad since the 1960s.”

Read the full story: Drought hits Kenya's wildlife

Photo by Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

Old Faithful less faithful

The San Jose Mercury News reports that Old Faithful - the iconic geyser in Yellowstone National Park - has become less faithful because of drought conditions.

A U.S. Geological survey conducted over nine years by Shaul Hurwitz found that it now takes 1.5 hours for an eruption as opposed to just about one hour before 1959:

"Hurwitz's study examined data from five reliable geysers, including Old Faithful, from 1997 to 2006. The winter of 1997 in Yellowstone and surrounding mountains was the wettest in at least 100 years, but drought has prevailed in the area for much of this decade."

Read the full story: Drought slowing down Old Faithful geyser