APOLOGIES, BUT THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE   Web mongabay.com fish.mongabay.com rainforests.mongabay.com news.mongabay.com travel.mongabay.com RAINFOREST INFORMATION  Preface  World Rainforests  Rainforest Structure  Rainforest Biodiversity  Canopy  Forest Floor  Rainforest Waters  Indigenous People  Deforestation  Global Importance  Rainforest Conservation  Country Reports  References  Deforestation Tables  The Amazon Rainforest  The Congo Rainforest  Deforestation in Brazil  Rainforest Images  Rainforest Books  Links  Site Map  Other languages FOR KIDS  About rainforests  Rainforest animals  Rainforest people  In the rainforest  Why are rainforests important?  Why are rainforests disappearing?  How can we save rainforests?  Teaching resources TROPICAL FISH  Preface  Introduction  Fish Anatomy  Water Chemistry  The Aquarium  Plant Care  Plant Species  Food  Disease  Non-fish Species  Breeding  Bibliography  Links  Biotope Aquaria  Species by Ecosystem  Species by Country  Fish Species | Families  Catfish  Characins  Cichlids  Cyprinds  Killifish  Labyrinth Fish  Livebearers  Loaches  Others  Perches  Rainbowfish DATA Data aggregations found on mongabay.com Deforestation figures for selected countries: deforestation statistics for more than 200 countries worldwide. Figures come from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Country statistics: Other country-specific statistics including land area, human, population, economic indicators, and environmental conditions. Figures come from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AIDS Statistics: for selected countries. From the U.S. Census Bureau. 2005 city population estimates for the world: proprietary population estimates for more than 10,000 cities. World's Largest Cities by Country United States Zip Codes: proprietary aggregation of U.S. postal codes. World's Largest Cities by Country Countries and Capitals World's Largest Cities World's Largest Urban Areas World Population Projections - 2002, 2010, 2015, 2020: United Nations projections. World Population Projections: United Nations projections for individual cities. Country studies: Text excerpted from on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Occupations in the United States: By job title. Includes job description and overview, number of people employed in a given occupation, and other data. Occupations in the United States: Comparison statistics by job title for cities in the US. For a given city, includes number of people employed in an occupation and salary data. Regional Occupational Data for the United States: By city. For a specific city, includes the number of people employed in a given occupation and salary figures. Tax Data for the United States World's Largest Countries by Land Area World's Largest Countries by Population XML / RSS / Syndication options There are three XML feeds for mongabay.com  All mongabay.com news

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South America: Flooding in Peru and Ecuador, drought in the South. In the past, there have been terrible mudslides, made worse by deforestation, in Peru which have caused extensive failures in infrastructure. The falling nutrient levels of the ocean causes anchovy harvests to decrease off the coast of Peru, causing a rise in food prices. Anchovies are an important ingredient in chicken and livestock feed and guano from birds that feed on anchovies is a major source of fertilizer for U.S. farmers. The increased production costs translates to higher grocery store prices in grains, bread, milk, eggs, and meat. Overall, El Niño has a tremendous cost in South America; Peru alone anticipates more than $1.2 billion in damages. El Niño also creates dry conditions in much of the Amazon Basin worsening annual fires set by developers and peasants.
Southeast Asia/West Pacific: Much of the western Pacific was affected by drought conditions, exacerbating serious wildfires in Indonesia that lead to airport closings and hospitalizations. In 1982-83, extensive wildfires in Borneo burned more than 9 million acres (3.6 million ha) of rainforest and croplands. In 1997-98 the fires burned again sending a dense haze over six Asian countries. China, in the midst of its worst drought in 50 years (the Yellow river ran dry in September 1997), can expect drought conditions to worsen resulting in lower grain and cotton yields.
Australia/Papua New Guinea: Drought and fires endangered lives and the grain harvest in Australia. Papua New Guinea suffered a serious drought: rivers and dams dried up, and mining operations ceased. Coffee production fell 50% and bushfires raged out of control destroying other important crops and rainforest. People in the highlands are deserted villages in search of food and hundreds starved to death.
United States: El Niño cost the United States $1.3 billion in 1982-1983, and will probably be even more costly in 1997. California experienced a flurry of powerful storms resulting in flooding and extensive storm damage, but Southern California may be cleansed of some of its smog and blessed with good surfing. El Niño created a lower pressure area off the California coast resulting in the inflow of tropical precipitation. The Eastern United States probably can expect a wet winter, but a decline in hurricanes. The midwest could experience a warm winter and the South may have a very wet winter.
Africa: El Niño is expected to cause drought and famine in Southern and Western Africa. Agricultural production in South Africa is anticipated to decline creating economic crisis and social unrest.
Ecological Effects: El Niño has a poorly studied, but tremendous and obvious impact on natural systems. In 1982-83, low tides and the movement of warm water to the east caused severe bleaching and death of 70 to 95 percent of the corals from Colombia to Costa Rica. In 1998 Greenpeace and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Authority reported 25% of the coral on the Great Barrier Reef of Australia was severely bleached, while 60% of the reef was affected by bleaching. Researchers have observed changes in migratory patterns of birds, whales, and fish, and people in Washington are catching marlin and other tropical fish for the first time in recorded history. The dry conditions in the tropics, combined with forest degradation and fragmentation, are tinder for giant forest fires.

While evidence of El Niño/La Niña events extends back thousands of years, many scientists believe that El Niño may be attributable to global warming, though the connection is still elusive. It is clear though, that five out of the first seven years of the 1990s have been classified as having El Niño conditions, whereas prior El Niño events happened every 3 to 7 years. It is possible that the increased thermal energy in the atmospheric system causes the normal variations of the El Niño phenomena to be exaggerated and accelerated.


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