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Blood-torn now, they were among the first to produce wheat, barley and the crops that made this area part of the “fertile crescent” that Western civilisation sprang from ... Syria was part of what we now know as the “fertile crescent” in the Middle East, where humanity first learned agriculture, revolutionising life by taking our ancestors from a ......
The Guardian 2015-03-19House Republicans are seeking to cut funds from the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) budgets that are directed at researching the national security implications of climate change ... See also ... Rep ... According to the recent study and others, global warming — along with unsustainable water use — is causing the Fertile Crescent, where agriculture and animal herding first began 12,000 years ago, to lose its fertility ... ....
Mashable 2015-03-17Syria Gregorio Borgia / Associated Press ... Here, a refugee camp is seen in Syria near the Turkish border town of Cilvegozu ... 8 ... --> ... 0 ... Some studies have predicted that the so-called fertile crescent extending from Turkey through Iraq will shrivel up by the end of this century as carbon emissions continue to increase and global temperatures rise apace. ... One of them stretches across the Mediterranean and through the fertile crescent ... ....
The Los Angeles Times 2015-03-04Colin P Kelley, the lead author of the study, said it found that while Syria and the rest of the region known as the 'Fertile Crescent' were normally subject to periodic dry periods, "a drought this severe was two to three times more likely" because of the increasing aridity ... This added to social stresses that eventually resulted in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 ... ....
The Times of India 2015-03-04a weakening of winds that bring moisture-laden air from the Mediterranean and hotter temperatures that cause more evaporation. Study lead author Colin Kelley said he and his colleagues found that while Syria and the rest of the region known as the Fertile Crescent were normally subject to periodic dry periods, “a drought this severe was two to three times more likely” because of the increasing aridity in the region....
Taipei Times 2015-03-04Washington, March 03. ... The recent drought affected the so-called Fertile Crescent, spanning parts of Turkey and much of Syria and Iraq, where agriculture and animal herding are believed to have started some 12,000 years ago ... The drought's effects were immediate ... research by other scientists has suggested that the Akkadian Empire, spanning much of the Fertile Crescent about 4,200 years ago, likely collapsed during a multi-year drought ... ....
The Siasat Daily 2015-03-03a weakening of winds that bring moisture-laden air from the Mediterranean and hotter temperatures that cause more evaporation ... Colin P Kelley, the lead author of the study, said he and his colleagues found that while Syria and the rest of the region known as the Fertile Crescent were normally subject to periodic dry periods, "a drought this severe was two to three times more likely" because of the increasing aridity in the region ... ....
The Times of India 2015-03-03REUTERS/ Mohammed BadraPeople walk on rubble as others try to put out a fire after what activists said were airstrikes followed by shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Douma neighborhood of Damascus, February 9, 2015. See Also ... .". According to some, those wars are already here ... To sort that out, the team collected data on precipitation from around the Fertile Crescent covering the years 1931 to 2008 ... Life....
Business Insider 2015-03-03(Source. University of California - Santa Barbara) ... The recent drought affected the so-called Fertile Crescent, spanning parts of Turkey and much of Syria and Iraq, a region has always seen natural weather swings ... According to the scientists, global warming effected the Fertile Crescent in two ways that exacerbate any given dry year ... Kelley says that the record drought's effects were immediate ... distributed by ... (noodl. 27112568) ....
noodls 2015-03-02Syrians prayed for rain in Damascus after Bashar al-Assad called for citizens to make their personal pleas. Photograph. Youssef Badawi/EPA. Ian Sample, science editor ... From 2006, the Fertile Crescent, where farming was born 12,000 years ago, faced the worst three year drought in the instrumental record ... According to records Kelley studied, the Fertile Crescent, including Syria, witnessed a 13% drop in its winter rainfall since 1931 ... ....
The Guardian 2015-03-02Syria and California have both recently suffered their worst-ever droughts, exacerbated by global warming. Syria's may have helped trigger its bloody civil war, but not California's, which instead brought vermin invasions and wildfire ... Climate models, his team found, consistently predict such changes for the Fertile Crescent, the Middle Eastern area that includes Syria and Iraq ... Civil unrest ... "California has much higher resilience."...
New Scientist 2015-03-02But the Syria conflict is the first war that scientists have explicitly linked to climate change ... “I think this is scary and it’s only just beginning ... “Of course ... The study combined climate, social and economic data relating to the so-called Fertile Crescent, spanning parts of Turkey and much of Syria and Iraq, where agriculture and herding are thought to have started 12,000 years ago and continue to be crucial ... --> ... News ... News ... news... -->....
The Independent 2015-03-02Abstract. Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011, the greater Fertile Crescent experienced the most severe drought in the instrumental record. For Syria, a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies, the drought had a catalytic effect, contributing to political unrest ... ....
PNAS 2015-02-23The Fertile Crescent, nicknamed "The Cradle of Civilization" due to the birth of various kingdoms within its borders, is a crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, and the Nile Valley and Delta of north east Africa. The term was first used by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted. Having originated in the study of ancient history, the concept soon developed and retains today meanings in international geopolitics and diplomatic relations.
In current usage the Fertile Crescent has a maximum extent and a minimum extent. All definitions include Mesopotamia, the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The major nation in this region is Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia), with small portions of Iran near the Persian Gulf, Kuwait to the south and Turkey in the north. More typically the Fertile Crescent includes also the Levantine coast of the Mediterranean Sea, with Syria, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and the West Bank. Water sources include the Jordan River. At maximum extent, the Fertile Crescent also may include Egypt and the Nile Valley and Delta within it. The inner boundary is delimited by the dry climate of the Syrian Desert to the south. Around the outer boundary are the arid and semi-arid lands of the Zagros Mountains to the east, the Anatolian highlands to the north, and the Sahara Desert to the west.
Come and see the brilliant light
don't let your emotions mask your sight
it's the manifestation of a deeper fight
that affects me and you
my optimism was running high
a new world order was on my mind
but I couldn't belive it when I heard them say
they're blowing it away
and the fertile crescent is burning today
and baby my emotions are too
the cradle of humanity has led us all astray
and we're all in this tigether don't you know
'cause our species has nowhere else to go
aggression rears its ugly head
retaliation brings further dread
the two are linked by unseen threads
that wind back through time
I don't agree with the outdated trend
nationalism is an evil friend
but hatred is instilled by invisible lines
drawn in our minds
and the fertile crescent is haunting us today
and baby our instincts are too
the ghost of humanity is warning us this way
and I think we all should need it don't you know