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U.S. Spring Crop Season Jeopardized as Drought Persists
2013-02-01 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The unrelenting drought gripping key farming states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting of new crops, a climate expert said on Thursday. "It's not a pretty picture," said climatologist Mark Svoboda of the University of Nebraska's Drought Mitigation Center. Precipitation in the Plains region has been 3-6 inches shy of normal levels since October, and some areas are nearly 16 inches...
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U.S. spring crop season jeopardized as drought persists
2013-01-31 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The unrelenting drought gripping key farming states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting of new crops, a climate expert said on Thursday. "It's not a pretty picture," said climatologist Mark Svoboda of the University of Nebraska's Drought Mitigation Center. Precipitation in the Plains region has been 3-6 inches shy of normal levels since October, and some areas are nearly 16 inches...
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Chesapeake Bay shows signs of recovery, but pollution persists
2013-01-31 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Chesapeake Bay, North America's biggest estuary, is still ailing but making some progress as it struggles to recover from over-fishing and pollution, a partnership overseeing its revival said on Thursday. The number of juvenile crabs is the highest in two decades, rockfish are stable and last year's "dead zone," the part of the bay without enough oxygen to support life, seems to be the smallest since 1985, the Chesapeake Bay Program said in its 2011-12 "Bay Barometer." On the down side,...
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Drought persists in U.S. Plains, no harm seen from cold snap
2013-01-22 14:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Dry weather persists in the Plains and western Midwest leading to concern about the fate of the 2013 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop and seedings of the corn and soybean crops, an agricultural meteorologist said on Tuesday. "The main issue in North America is the dryness in the southern Plains," said John Dee, a meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring. Dee said it would be dry in the Plains and Midwest this week followed by light precipitation of 0.20 inch to 0.60 inch early next week then...
As drought persists, many scramble to save every drop of water
2013-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The drought that crippled many communities across the nation last year shows little sign of retreating, and the threat of persistent water scarcity is spurring efforts to preserve every drop. As the drought of 2012 creeps into 2013, experts say the slow-spreading catastrophe presents near-term problems for a key U.S. agricultural region and potential long-term challenges for millions of Americans. "Everyone is wondering whether this dry weather is the new norm ... or an anomaly that will soon...