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Climate change drives UK wine production but not without weather shocks
2016-04-01 08:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: As UK wine producers prepare for what they hope will be a bumper 2016 season a study published today reveals that year-to-year climate variability and hazardous weather at key points in the growing season leave the industry highly sensitive to the elements. It also suggests that in vogue varieties such as Chardonnay and Pinot noir are more susceptible to UK climate variability than traditional varieties. Over the last decade there has been a boom in English wine production. The amount of land...
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Look beyond hotspots to help people weather climate shocks: study
2015-12-10 23:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Targeting money only at areas hit by drought and other climate extremes in an effort to build resilience among the worlds poorest may be ineffective, researchers said. In Mali, for example, over much of the last decade, farmers and herders have struggled with worsening drought that has killed crops and animals and often made rural people poorer and hungrier. But the fallout from those losses has impacts far beyond drought-hit regions, new research by the London-based Overseas Development Institute...
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New Drago GT Corn Head features QuadSuspension ear shocks to maximize harvest.
2015-11-17 06:00:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Drago has introduced a new corn head representing the latest evolution in corn harvest technology. Called the Drago GT, the new corn head features multiple industry firsts and a singular focus of capturing maximum yield and return. read more
S.Korea stocks, won rebound from Paris shocks, but caution remains
2015-11-17 05:39:09| Steel - Topix.net
The Korea Composite Stock Price Index rose 1.2 percent, or 23 points, to 1,966.31 points as of 0210 GMT, although falling short of recovering all of its 30-point loss on Monday. The won was quoted at 1,168.8 against the dollar, up 0.5 percent from Monday's onshore close at 1,174.1. "The impact from Friday's attacks in Paris proved to be short-lived worldwide," said Park So-yeon, a stock analyst at Korea Investment Securities, referring to a rally in the U.S. markets late on Monday.
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Extreme weather and food shocks
2015-09-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Recent events highlight concerns about the risks to global food security posed by changing patterns of extreme weather affecting the worlds breadbasket regions such as the American Midwest, South Americas southern cone, the Black Sea and the Yangtze River valley. In 2012, the worst drought to hit the U.S. Midwest in half a century sent international maize and soybean prices to record levels. In 2011, wheat prices nearly doubled after an unprecedented heat wave devastated the Russian harvest....
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