{"id":21250,"date":"2022-09-15T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=21250"},"modified":"2022-11-16T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T21:53:24","slug":"the-way-things-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=21250","title":{"rendered":"The Way Things Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Linda Lou Burton posting from Lake Nakuru National Park, Nakuru, Kenya \u2013<\/em>Climate change. Believe it or not, that\u2019s what scientists are saying about the floods in Lake Nakuru of late. Too much rain coming down is making a mess of \u201cthe way things were.\u201d Neighborhoods in the Lake Nakuru area have been flooded out; people relocated. Animals in the already small 11,120-acre Lake Nakuru National Park are losing space too. The rhinos and zebras and antelope and buffalo that live here have less grazing area. As for the birds \u2013 flamingoes in particular \u2013 all that fresh water coming from the sky is messing up the alkalinity of the lake water where algae grows. Since algae is what flamingoes eat, they are flying elsewhere. Nevertheless, we saw flamingoes and other birds and animals as we were leaving this morning; a baboon gave us his opinion on the state of things. As for the Undertaker Bird — well, they always look glum. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Flooding Displaces Hundreds Around Rift Valley Lakes.<\/em><\/strong> Reported by Kenya News Agency 8\/20\/2022. Increased rainfall in Kenya\u2019s Rift Valley Lakes\u2019 catchment zones is the main cause of the rising water levels in the water bodies according to new research findings. A study conducted jointly by the Technical University of Kenya (TUK) and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (HyWa-BOKU) in Vienna, Austria indicates that mean annual rainfall for 2010\u22122020 period increased by up to 30 per cent in the Rift Valley region due to the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns. https:\/\/www.kenyanews.go.ke\/flooding-displaces-hundreds-around-rift-valley-lakes\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linda Lou Burton posting from Lake Nakuru National Park, Nakuru, Kenya \u2013Climate change. Believe it or not, that\u2019s what scientists are saying about the floods in Lake Nakuru of late. Too much rain coming down is making a mess of \u201cthe way things were.\u201d Neighborhoods in the Lake Nakuru area have been flooded out; people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4318,4319],"tags":[4469,4468,4461,4467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21250"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21366,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21250\/revisions\/21366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}