China’s agriculture ministry says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain.
Also Sunday, thousands of factories in Sichuan province that make solar panels, processor chips and other industrial goods waited for word on whether last week's six-day shutdown would be extended.
Phone calls to the economic agency and provincial government weren’t answered. A woman who answered the phone at the Sichuan branch of the government-owned power utility State Grid Ltd. said she had seen no notice about extending the shutdown. She wouldn’t give her name. Hubei’s government declared a drought emergency on Saturday and said it would release disaster aid. The Sichuan government said 819,000 people face a shortage of drinking water.
Last year, temperatures in Death Valley, California reached levels not seen in 100 years. This week, temperatures are approaching that mark again. And overall, temperatures that were thought impossible in the 1950s are now possible. Telemundo Dallas chief meteorologist Néstor Flecha explains how the greenhouse effect has shaped the climate and extreme temperatures.
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