{"id":28670,"date":"2025-04-01T20:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=28670"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:56:54","slug":"recent-stories-in-the-news-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2025\/04\/recent-stories-in-the-news-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent stories in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been many stories in the news lately about agriculture and climate. Here is a sampling of the ones I thought were the most interesting. The list ends with an interesting video on atmospheric optics, including rainbows, haloes, and many other odd sky phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Catholic Vote<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicvote.org\/rural-us-workers-crushed-by-logging-export-freeze\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJYMwxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW5qy1wE3k2_7F-xIHCO0A_F3Ecc7ICDgRwIzIHcK7mgo2r_5uZji7RX4A_aem_N2shplap1G0--UTp0nry0Q\">\u2018Completely and utterly ignored\u2019: Rural US workers crushed by logging export freeze<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Associated Press<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/farming-research-development-agriculture-public-funding-climate-change-9aec16fc632326b3be97280612405756\">Scientists shielding farming from climate change need more public funding. But they\u2019re getting less.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>UGA Dairy Team<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/dairy\/2025\/03\/summer-is-on-its-way-are-you-prepared-for-cooling-cows\/\">Summer is on its way! Are you prepared for cooling cows?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Carbon Brief<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/global-soil-moisture-in-permanent-decline-due-to-climate-change\/?utm_content=bufferae608&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Global soil moisture in \u2018permanent\u2019 decline due to climate change<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fast Company<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91307267\/the-1930s-dust-bowl-is-infamous-in-american-history-and-we-could-be-heading-for-another-one\">The 1930s Dust Bowl is infamous in American history&#8211;and we could be headed for another one<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yale Environment 360<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/adam-sobel-noaa-opinion?fbclid=IwY2xjawJZYJJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcVy0cWBYFGbiDgTNM6V5KB8thBRthFKL7aIIbyg2aQOm2jae1xZQgzQkw_aem_7YPDd6sfa05AWDNMBdNdNA\">With NOAA Cuts, a Proud Legacy and Vital Science Are at Risk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>AMS WeatherBand<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsweatherband.org\/weatherband\/articles\/light-in-air-understanding-and-appreciating-atmospheric-optics\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJJJhVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHfO5sxhxxxIu_2qdu7VjIenPtNl9uArSeRZb-TrCJN1pcvSKyfhSfE8rVg_aem_MxKyvWlns0BtpZQrqUk4Ew\">Light in Air: Understanding and Appreciating Atmospheric Optics<\/a> (video)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/ice-optics-nws-amarillo-joshua-thomas-1-9-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/ice-optics-nws-amarillo-joshua-thomas-1-9-2015-1024x404.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/ice-optics-nws-amarillo-joshua-thomas-1-9-2015.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/ice-optics-nws-amarillo-joshua-thomas-1-9-2015-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/ice-optics-nws-amarillo-joshua-thomas-1-9-2015-350x138.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been many stories in the news lately about agriculture and climate. Here is a sampling of the ones I thought were the most interesting. The list ends with an interesting video on atmospheric optics, including rainbows, haloes, and many other odd sky phenomena. Catholic Vote: \u2018Completely and utterly ignored\u2019: Rural US workers crushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18,17,23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-forestry","category-forests","category-history","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28672,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions\/28672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}