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Environment 360 has an interesting story about how rising sea levels are killing off forests near sea level due to the impacts of salt water intrusion into wetlands near the coast. The trees have become a “ghost forest” of dead trees surrounded by marsh grass. Changes like this are occurring at many places along the…
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Drought continues to expand across the Southeast as warmer than normal temperatures and virtually no rain has plagued the region again this week. Now all of northern Georgia is in extreme drought and exceptional drought has also expanded slightly. Unfortunately, while temperatures have dropped and will be cooler in the next week, there is still…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center’s monthly climate summary report for October 2016 is now available. You can find it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportOctober2016.pdf.
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I love to eat, and so I am always looking for stories on food in the Southeast. This morning the New York Times posted an article about a new specialty oil that is taking the culinary world by storm–green peanut oil. It was developed here in Pitts, Georgia, and is now starting to be recognized…
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CNN has a sobering video posted at https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/11/02/arctic-ice-animation-orig-bu.cnn. It shows how much the perennial sea ice has disappeared between 1984 and the present. With such big changes in the ice cover in the Arctic, no wonder the weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere are changing so much. It’s probably not surprising that at the same time…
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The Florida climate summary for October 2016 is now available. You can access it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-october-2016c.
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Some new research at the University of Georgia indicates that sands from the Sahara, blown across the Atlantic, can do more than suppress hurricane formation. Researchers there have found that a genus of marine bacteria called Vibrio feed off the Saharan dust, leading to large blooms of the potentially harmful pathogen in ocean surface water. Vibrio…