{"id":6541,"date":"2012-02-21T02:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blitransfer.wpengine.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T19:19:56","slug":"worldwide-drought-as-of-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/2012\/02\/21\/worldwide-drought-as-of-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Drought as of February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sossusvlei<\/a>The UCL Department of Space and Climate Physics maintains a database of worldwide drought conditions. This map of the drought-stricken areas around the world shows drought affecting more than 194 million people.<\/p>\n

The darkest red on the map indicates exceptional drought and the light yellow shows where the minor drought is.<\/p>\n

Texas,<\/a> northern Mexico, and the surrounding states show up dark red, as does the southeastern United States<\/a>. Both areas are still under drought restrictions, even though Texas, for example, has been getting floods recently.<\/p>\n

China has been undertaking massive water diversion projects<\/a> for quite some time and will likely continue in the face of such a drought in its southern areas.<\/p>\n

The red and orange spots on the map look so small, and yet they comprise vast land areas.<\/p>\n

The drought conditions map is online and is interactive<\/a>. You can zoom in on your own home and see how your area is doing. The spatial resolution is about one hundred square kilometers.<\/p>\n

Sossusvlei in the Namibian desert near Sesriem, Namibia<\/a> via Shutterstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UCL Department of Space and Climate Physics maintains a database of worldwide drought conditions. This map of the drought-stricken areas around the world shows drought affecting more than 194 million people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[2854,597,600],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Vlei1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}