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"Past the Orontes and Jordan river valleys is the 200 mm isohyet line, the point where annual rainfall drops below 200 mm—a bit less than eight inches. Eight inches represents the limit below which farming without irrigation becomes impossible, with all the consequences that entails. In the same way that the presence of water defined the internal boundaries of the Mediterranean empires that grew with seaborne trade and colonization, the absence of water defined the boundaries of the Mesopotamian empires, as far back as the birth of civilization itself." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Ions are also created by rainfall, air pressure, forces emitted during a waterfall, and the friction from large volumes of air moving rapidly over a landmass, as during so-called ill winds, such as El Nino or the Santa Ana of southern California. Both positive and negative ions are equivalent to a tiny pulse of static electricity, and the air that we breathe is made up of billions of these tiny charges. Good "clean" air contains 1,500-4,000 ions per cubic centimeter, and the preferred ratio should be slightly more negative than positive ions: 1.2 to 1." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Electromagnetic and geomagnetic phenomena resulting from the Earth's shifting plates, from earthquakes, or from unusually high rainfall levels—even electromagnetic "luminosities," or lights in the sky?can all stimulate certain portions of the brain that produce hallucinations. Between 1968 and 1971, more than 100,000 people reported observing visions of an apparition of the Virgin Mary above a church in Zeitoun, Egypt. When Persinger examined the seismic activity in the area over the same time period, he discovered an unprecedented peak in earthquake activity." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"It gets up to seven meters of annual rainfall. Like other equatorial rain forests in South America and Africa, Borneo is bursting with extraordinary life-forms: tiny owls, deer the size of mice, flying lizards, Oz-like flying apes, luminescent mushrooms and colorful fungi resembling coral reefs. Butterflies suckle on human sweat while expelling creamy secretions. Voon points out a little bird called the black-breasted fruit hunter. Clouds of mosquitoes trail me wherever I go." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The argument in favor of spring water is that this is what people have traditionally drunk, water from springs and streams from melted snow coming down mountains and/or fed by rainfall. Such water picks up inorganic minerals as it travels through the ground into the groundwater. Some maintain that drinking distilled water alone can even be dangerous, as it can cause the body to lose minerals by osmosis. Promoters of distilled water claim that the only minerals released are toxic, denatured and not absorbable by the body and therefore needed to be removed." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"For the past twenty-five hundred years, the Sahel has enjoyed a climate characterized by irregular and sometimes severe droughts, as well as sharp variations in rainfall from year to year. Most precipitation falls in short, violent storms distributed erratically over a chronically dry region. The Niger and Senegal Rivers, and also Lake Chad, provide permanent water sources for those living in their vicinity, but cattle herders have to rely mainly on water holes, perennial streams, and shallow wells dug in riverbeds." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Famine spreads in areas dependent on adequate rainfall for food production and areas exposed to tornados, hurricanes, and violent storms. • Massive waves of migrants from the worst-hit areas seek areas where resources are more assured. The breakdown of the poorest and most directly exposed regions creates a global security threat: • Epidemics of infectious diseases spread over Africa, Asia, and the Americas owing to heat waves, outbreaks of agricultural pests, and contaminated drinking water." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"How did these dramatic rainfall shifts and El Nino events affect Moche civilization? The lords of Sipan ruled over a portion of the Lambayeque Valley around A.D. 400, soon after political power had shifted northward. Moche society apparently prospered until the mid-sixth century's severe drought cycle. At this time the Moche lords lived downstream, as close to the Pacific as to the mountains so that they could control both water and fisheries." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Yemen, in fact, was the most powerful local "state" in Arabia until the rise of Islam, with an intensive irrigation system fed by the remarkable Marib Dam, a huge structure more than fifty feet high, whose sluice gates poured the rainfall captured from the Indian Ocean monsoons into hundreds of miles of canals. Yemen was so attractive, in fact, that Augustus himself had attempted its conquest in 25 b.c.e. In 404, the historian Synesius praised the bravery of one group of Arab soldiers, describing them as "by nature true descendants of Homer." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The production area has cold wet winters and hot dry summers, with a relatively low rainfall of 300-350 mm per annum. Harvesting is still mostly done by hand (with sickles), but processing has been mechanised. Nowadays, green tea and spray-dried powder (extract) are also produced on a commercial scale. Uses & properties Rooibos is popular as a health beverage, prepared and used in the same way as black tea (but unlike the latter, the taste improves after prolonged simmering). The tea contains no harmful stimulants and is totally devoid of caffeine." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.) "Cultivation & harvesting The crop requires a high rainfall and subtropical or tropical climate. The leafy twigs are cut off and roasted over fire (in wire baskets) to inactivate enzymes (so that the leaves keep their green colour) and to release volatile aroma compounds. They are then dried and shredded or powdered. Uses & properties Mate is drunk in much the same way as ordinary tea. Traditionally it is drunk from a small gourd (fruit of the tree calabash, Crescentia cujete) through a silver drinking straw (bombilla) with a strainer fitted to the bottom." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.) "Cultivation & harvesting Cacao trees are grown from seeds and require high humidity, temperature and rainfall. The fruits are fermented in boxes for about six days to oxidise and release aroma compounds in the beans. The pulp is washed away and the processed beans are dried and packed. Uses & properties Cacao beans are roasted, pulverised and half of the fat (cocoa butter) is extracted, while the remaining material is powdered as cocoa powder. Chocolate is a mixture of cocoa powder, milk powder and sugar. Cocoa drinks are chocolate or cocoa powder mixed with water or milk." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Firstly, its rainfall is relatively scanty, and gets progressively more so as one moves to the northwestern part of the peninsula. Secondly, being a limestone karst plain, there are virually no rivers, and the rich alluvial soils favorable to cacao growth are absent. Only in the lands bordering Chetumal Bay in the southeast, and along the Belize River, were commercially viable cacao plantations possible. Yet cacao had so much religious and social prestige among the Yucatec Maya that they found a means to grow it anyway." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"The presence of this tree signifies a rainfall and a temperature range and will indicate what your agriculture might be, how steep the pitch of your roof, what raincoats you'd need. You don't have to know such details to get by in the modern cities of Portland or Bellingham. But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can truly feel more at home." Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature edited by William Cronon (W. W. Norton and Co." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Yet where this oven-hot plain meets the foothills of the volcanic highlands, although the rainfall is higher, the heat is mitigated and the sut-roundings are far more pleasant. This is the coffee country of Mexico and Central America, but before the latter half of the 19th century, it was where cacao was grown. So rich was this piedmont zone in this product that highland Maya kingdoms had vied for control of these lands, and the Aztecs had made their most profitable conquest by taking ovet Soconusco. Lured by the cacao, the Spaniards were here soon after the Conquest." - Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe, The True History of Chocolate (Get the book.)

"Depending on its position in relation to the earth's rotation, the position of the moon, and the sun's internal cyclic activities (sun spot cycles), the sun masterminds the entire earth's climate and seasonal changes down to the smallest details, including temperature, amount of rainfall, cloud formation, periods of dryness, etc. 21 In 1998 scientists have found the first evidence that genetically-modified food may damage human health. Researchers at the prestigious Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, U.K., found that genetically-modified foods could damage the immune systems of rats." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Grass is a natural resource that, with a little rainfall and energy from the sun and when managed properly, can actually increase in density and promote tremendous biodiversity. Grass is the basis for the entire food chain. If you are a cattle rancher and you don't manage your land right, you won't be able to raise as many cattle on it. My father [Mel Coleman, Sr.] pioneered the concept that we are essentially grass managers. When we increase grass density, we provide more forage for wildlife and reduce erosion, which improves watershed quality." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Seemingly modest fluctuations in rainfall, temperature and other meteorological factors can create havoc in vulnerable societies."16 It is the way that America manages its resource base and strategically aids other nations to do so that will determine its longevity as a prosperous nation, and it is the way other nations manage theirs that can help to promote peace and stability throughout the world. This is why we have to hope green patriotism's residues permeate the issues and tissues of every place and person in the world. What is it to be a patriot?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Within the mainland colonies, certain varieties settled down to become long-staple, silky, perennial, frost-hating, sak-loving Sea Island cotton, while other varieties became the upland cottons, usually annuals, short-staple, dependent upon generous spring rainfall, and so on. Cotton prefers a deep, well-drained soil rich in humus. Ir needs natural or artificially provided moisture equivalent to about 4 inches of rainfall per month during the critical first three months of growth, and then muci less during the long picking season, which lasts more than 100 days." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"This basic trade-off means that the amount of rainfall does not simply dictate the pace of soil erosion. Wind can be a dominant erosion process in arid environments or on bare disturbed soil, like agricultural fields. Biological processes, whether Darwin's worms or human activities such as plowing, also gradually move soil downslope. Although different types of erosional processes are more or less important in different places, a few tend to dominate. When rain falls onto the ground it either sinks into the soil or runs off over it; greater runoff leads to more erosion." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"It is also washed from leaves into the soil by rainfall"47 or can be washed off by consumers. A Bt crop, however, makes the toxin in every cell on a continuous basis. The concentration does not dissipate by the weather and it cannot be washed off. It is estimated that the plants produce 3,000—5,000 times the amount of toxin as the sprays, but it varies with plants. Mon 810, for example, had 1,500-3,000 times the level found in sprayed plants. Since the 2?/-toxin is exempted from the requirement of a tolerance, there are no legal limits as to how much can be expressed in food." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"In summer, moist air blows in from the ocean, bringing heavy rainfall to the south. In winter, however, the pattern reverses and strong winds sweep down from the north, bringing dust and freezing temperatures. The Lanzhou scientists, using complex techniques to measure particle sizes and magnetic data from the palaeosol section, were able to draw conclusions from their sample about changing monsoon strength 129,000 years ago, as the Eemian climate gradually warmed up." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "In this remote region, where Uganda borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon' generate such heavy rainfall (about 5 metres per year) that the cloud-shrouded peaks are only visible on a few days out of every year, and form the main headwaters of the river Nile. At the top of the highest peak, the 5,109-metre Mount Stanley (named after the explorer, who passed by in 1887), ice and snow deny the summit to all but the most determined mountaineers." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Scientists have long feared that a freshening and warming of the Norwegian and Greenland seas - due to higher rainfall, run-off from melting land glaciers and the disappearance of sea ice - could stop this water sinking, and shut down the great ocean conveyor. Hence the famous 'Shutdown of the Gulf Stream' scenarios familiar from newspaper headlines and the Hollywood movie. Despite the continued popular media interest, amongst the scientific community the 'Gulf Stream shutdown' scenario has in recent years actually been falling out of favour." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Further east, however, agriculture may actually benefit from warmer temperatures and higher rainfall. Rather as California offered sanctuary of a sort to displaced 'Okies' during the Dust Bowl, the Midwest and Great Lakes areas will need to provide jobs and sustenance to those who can no longer scratch a living from the sandy soils far out west, once the rains stop falling and the desert winds begin to blow. Already the day after tomorrow?" - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Average crop yields were comparable under normal rainfall, but the average corn yields in the organic plots were about a third higher during the driest five years. Energy inputs wete about a third lower, and labor costs about a third higher in the organic plots. Overall, organic plots were more profitable than the conventional plots because total costs were about 15 percent lower, and organic produce sold at a premium. Over the two-decade-long experiment, soil carbon and nitrogen contents increased in the organic plots." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The crop is less susceptible to pests and diseases than other grain crops and can be grown in almost any soil, as long as the rainfall is above 800 mm per year. In rural areas, harvesting, threshing and winnowing are often still done by hand. Seed heads may be stored for long periods. Uses & properties The grain is ground into flour and used as porridge or for bread. It may also be eaten as gruel. The malted grain has a high sugar content and is popular for brewing traditional beers. Nutritional value Finger millet is rich in energy (340 kcal per 100 g) and carbohydrates (75%)." - Ben-Erik van Wyk, Food Plants of the World: An illustrated guide (Get the book.)

"Witnessing the long-term effects of forest clearing on both steep land and valley fields, Marsh saw that bare, eroded mountain slopes unfit for habitation no longer absorbed rainfall but rapidly shed runoff that picked up sediment and dumped it on valley fields. An observant tourist, Marsh feared the New World was repeating Old World mistakes." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Depending on the nature of your intention, make one member of the group responsible for researching statistics involving your local accident, weather, or crime statistics. For these types of statistics, it is a good idea to get hold of reports for the last five years in your area and surrounding communities so you have something solid to compare. Then, when you meet, decide on a group intention statement. When you are "powering up," visualize yourselves as a single entity (say, a giant bubble or any other unified internal image)." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Black pepper grows in almost all types of soil but prefers soils that are loose and well-drained, in a humid climate with much rainfall and partial shade. PEYOTE Botanical Name Lophophora diffusa, L. williamsii Family Cactaceae (Cactus Family) Also Known As English: buttons, cactus pudding, divine plant, dry whiskey, hikuli, mescal button, pellote, peyotl, white mule Spanish: tuna de la tierra Etymology The genus name Lophophora derives from the Greek lophos, "crest," in reference to the crests or tri-chemes on each tubercle." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

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