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Feeling the heat? Corn production can be hurt by high temperatures and drought
2016-07-22 18:32:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Jonathan Kleinjan, South Dakota State University The drought and heat can result in reduced kernel size. The heat and even dry conditions can impact corn yields. The good news is that in the later stages, it has less of an impact. read more
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Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink
2016-07-21 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Amazon rainforest is popularly known as the the planets lungs absorbing and storing 100 billion tons of carbon and preventing it from entering the atmosphere. Maintaining that vast carbon sink is seen as vital to limiting climate change impacts. Now, new research published in the Global Biogeochemical Cycles journal shows that droughts can bring this crucial ecosystem service to a grinding halt. University of Exeter scientist Dr. Ted Feldpausch and an international team of researchers...
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California drought, marine heat more likely with warming
2016-07-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A persistent wash of warm waters off the West Coast, which caused wildlife die-offs and blocked drought-quenching storms from reaching California last year, was caused by the happenstance interplay of natural ocean cycles, research findings published Monday show. The findings also suggested that while the drought and the blob of warm water were the result of the natural whims of the weather, climate change could make such events more likely and intense in the future. To a small extent, it's already...
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The unexpected: Cold snaps in the sub-tropics, drought in rainforests featured at upcoming ecology conference
2016-07-12 05:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Science Foundation: The unexpected: Cold snaps in the sub-tropics, drought in rainforests featured at upcoming ecology conference National Science Foundation-funded research results presented at 2016 Ecological Society of America meeting in August A cold snap in the Florida sub-tropics affected mangrove and other ecosystems. Cold snaps in sub-tropical ecosystems, life under cities in soils, drought in rainforests, and desertification in grasslands are among the topics featured at the 2016 meeting of the Ecological...
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Drought to drown: Climate change is hitting MP hard
2016-07-12 03:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Of India: From bone dry to flooded - all the districts of Madhya Pradesh which were either experiencing drought or facing seriously deficient rainfall are now flooded. Take the example of Damoh in the Bundelkhand region of MP, about 300 km from Bhopal. It faced three successive droughts, its inhabitants had to travel miles to fetch water, several farmers committed suicide and crops had gone dry. On July 6, the same Damoh received seven inches of rainfall in seven hours flat, and got flooded. Till Monday,...
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