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Forage production in Georgia has been struggling in recent years, according to this report in the Farm Monitor, due to a combination of high input costs and tough weather. According to the article, recent back-to-back bad years have resulted in depletion of hay stocks, leaving farmers short. There is nothing left for a rainy day,…
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The National Hurricane Center’s final report on Hurricane Ian was released earlier this week. It shows that for a short time before landfall it reached category 5, one of just a few hurricanes to do so. In the past, conventional wisdom has said that hurricanes generally weaken as they get close to land due to…
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Earlier this week, Scientific American published a story that highlights the Southeast’s outsized vulnerability to climate change, according to a new index created by the Environmental Defense Fund and Texas A&M University that analyzes climate impacts and neighborhood conditions such as poverty and health. It’s not necessarily that the climate changes are going to be…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows a slow expansion of drought over northern parts of the region in the last week. There was a slight improvement in Alabama with the removal of a sliver of moderate (D1) drought and reductions in drought in Georgia. South Carolina saw an expansion in abnormally dry conditions but…
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A recent report published in the scientific journal Nature and described here by BBC indicates that as the globe continues to warm and the Antarctic Ice Sheet melts rapidly, the infusion of fresh meltwater into the ocean could cause large changes in the large-scale ocean circulation that transports heat, salt, and nutrients around the world.…
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The Georgia Climate Conference is being held in Athens GA on May 15-17 at the Georgia Center on campus. It is three days of talks, panel discussions, and tours about how climate change is affecting Georgia and what groups and citizens are doing to curb it and to respond to its impacts. There will be…
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With two freezing events in March after a very warm winter that got plants blooming almost a month earlier than normal, there was bound to be some damage. Fortunately, even though some orchards with early-blooming varieties of peaches were hit hard, later-blooming varieties were hit less hard and should produce a delayed crop. The decrease…