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Several articles this week linked pollution in Asia to impacts on agriculture across the world. As you probably know, pollution in China has caused significant health issues locally, including adverse impacts on local crops. But according to an article on pollutionpolllution.com, many eyebrows are being raised at China’s attempt to reduce pollution by cracking down…
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Yahoo News posted a story yesterday from Reuters on Chincoteague Island in Virginia, the gateway to a national wildlife refuge located on a barrier island with a mile-long beach. The story describes the trends in sea level along the island and the varied reactions from these trends and responses to the potential loss in beach…
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The US Department of Commerce released a blog entry this week which discussed the value of government weather and climate services to the general public. A recent study showed that the overwhelming majority of Americans use weather forecasts and check them an average of 3.8 times per day. That is 301 billion forecasts consumed per…
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The QUEST multimedia reporting group has a new audio and text story on how recent droughts in Texas and Oklahoma have changed the shape of the cattle industry. During their last drought, many ranchers sold off significant parts of their herds. Much of the beef production moved farther north to places like Nebraska where feed…
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If you are holding an event and weather is a concern, either because the event is outside or people are traveling for a ways to attend, it is important to keep an eye on weather conditions before the event happens. Early this year in February several events needed to be canceled due to the ice…
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The six to ten day outlook for temperatures in the US (from www.cpc.noaa.gov) shows a large area of much below normal temperatures in the Northern Plains, leading to some concerns about an early frost along the US-Canada border. If it happened, it would have the potential to drive corn prices up significantly. AgWeb published two…
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Bryan Norcross of The Weather Channel and Hurricane Andrew fame posted this excellent column on his Facebook page this morning. It was also published in Crain’s NewsPro magazine. An important discussion on hurricane cycles and the vulnerability of the coasts to tropical storms, related to some of the discussions we had at SRECA this…
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