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Was your calving percentage better or worse this year than years past?
2016-07-07 16:17:00| Beef
Long-term data indicates that while cattle producers have consistently pushed live weight and carcass weight higher, overall cow herd fertility remains flat. How are fertility levels in your herd? Better Worse Don't know yet read more
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Thanks to climate change, for better or worse, the Arctic is turning green
2016-07-03 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In June, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions. And this is presumably occurring as more carbon dioxide in the air, along with warmer temperatures and longer growing seasons, makes plants very, very happy. Now, new research in Nature Climate Change not only reinforces the reality of this trend which is already provoking debate about the overall climate...
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Report: climate change will make wildfires worse
2016-07-02 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Spectrum: A rash of wildfires have burned across parts of the southwestern U.S. at an alarming frequency early in the 2016 fire season, and a new report suggests climate change is partly to blame. There are now more large fires burning across the region than at any time in the past 40 years, and the area being burned has increased as well, according to a report by Climate Central, a nonprofit organization of scientists. Since 2010, Utah has seen an average of more than 40,000 more acres burning each...
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Is Climate Change Making Conflict Worse?
2016-06-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: Recent evidence points to environmental stress having an adverse impact on weak or unstable countries, pointing to a grim future with droughts, floods and other extreme events expected to increase due to climate change. Right now, the world is looking at Venezuela, which is going through one of the worst economic crises in recent history. Its economy is collapsing before our eyes, and environmental factors aren`t helping. Drought is crippling the country`s hydro-power potential, devastating crops...
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Whats worse, burning plastic or sending it to a landfill?
2016-06-23 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Q. Dear Umbra, What`s worse: burning plastic trash, or letting it sit in a landfill? I`m thinking of not-easily-recyclable plastic packaging especially - are its components perhaps more easily dispersed as gases rather than slowly leaching in a landfill? Signed, Wilburforce A. Dearest Wilburforce, As anyone who has ever witnessed someone toss an errant water bottle or crinkly wrapper into a campfire can attest, burning plastic is a nasty business. It stinks; it spews oddly colored...
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