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The last survey of the season in the Sierra shows that the snowpack is at two-thirds of normal for this time of year. The lack of snow may further restrict the water supply for cities and farms. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce has more.

The San Diego County Water Authority, state and federal water agencies will celebrate the lining of the All-American Canal in Imperial County this Thursday morning. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce says the project is intended to boost San Diego water supplies.

Airs Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Until just a few months ago, farmers in Argentina were thriving like never before. Now, they are facing the pressures of a worsening international economy, as well as drought. Demand for crops is plummeting as costs for fertilizers, herbicides and other necessities have gone up.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium before the U.N. General Assembly and laid out his vision for a new world order free of the "hegemony of arrogance." The U.S. delegation boycotted the speech, a day after President Obama addressed world leaders from the same stage.

For months, prices paid to farmers for corn, wheat and soybeans have been shooting up. But so far, grocery prices have held steady for consumers. When will you have to pay the price?

HBO has a reputation for original, true-to-life series, but on Sunday it will premiere a show that is more epic fantasy than anything else the network has been doing. It's called Game of Thrones and it's been likened to The Sopranos, if it were set in Middle Earth.

President Obama's Midwest bus trip is part listening tour to show that he's concerned about the problems of actual Americans, part rolling photo op that gives him a chance to make the case for compromise (and to blame congressional Republicans for not doing enough on that score.)But it also was a chance to try and score a few points on the would-be Republican nominees.

When Gov. Rick Perry announces his candidacy on Saturday, there will be a new sheriff in the GOP presidential contest — a man who, in more than two decades of electoral politics, has never lost a race. Perry was born and raised in West Texas, where he picked up survival skills that could come in handy.

Little information is coming out of Syria, but stories from Daraa, where the protests began, have emerged as Syrians cross the border into Jordan. One Jordanian shop has become a sort of word-of-mouth news bureau, where Syrians discuss the loss of loved ones and encounters with soldiers.