Tuesday, August 3, 2010

It begins?

Wildfires Kill 40 Russians; 58 People Drown as Record Heat Wave Continues

Inconvienient side effect

Russia’s worst drought in at least 50 years, which already drove wheat prices to the biggest jump since 1973, will continue in August and threaten more crops and winter-grain sowings, the state Hydrometeorological Center said on its website. Rainfall last month in central Russia and along the Volga River was 10 percent to 30 percent of the long-term average, the center said.

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