http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/18/remote-sensing-critical-for-monitoring-drought/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Fri, 17 May 2013 14:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/18/remote-sensing-critical-for-monitoring-drought/comment-page-1/#comment-19579 franklin Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:31:31 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16969#comment-19579 Drought and famine in Somalia have by far caused a lot of economic downfall to the country. It is very annoying that people fail to understand that what is happening in East African can happen anywhere else. With climate change a series of hazards are increasingly happening at an alarming rate. Regardless of the technology that we have at hand in tackling such situations, we still have to look back and sort out the causes of these hazards. Until we stop destroying our environment we will keep on suffering the same way somalia is doing.

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