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Do we need to worry about banana blight?
2019-08-15 01:02:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A fungal banana disease that experts describe as a serious threat to production has reached Colombia.
Cool, wet conditions may cause seedling blight in soybeans
2016-06-07 23:59:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: Purdue University Soybean farmers with plants that have emergence issues should consider that seedling blight diseases might be the cause, says Kiersten Wise, a Purdue Extension field crops pathologist. read more
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Trouble in Paradise: Fatal Blight Threatens A Key Hawaiian Tree
2016-04-25 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Threatens Key Hawaiian Tree The ?ohi?a is Hawaiis iconic tree, a keystone species that maintains healthy watersheds and provides habitat for numerous endangered birds. But a virulent fungal disease, possibly related to a warmer, drier climate, is now felling the islands cherished 'ohi'a forests. Hawaiis isolation, 2,390 miles from the North American mainland, has given the island chain a unique array of species found nowhere else, including the ?ohi?a lehua, an evergreen in the myrtle family...
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Illegal air pollution will blight many UK cities for at least five years
2015-12-17 14:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Dozens of UK cities including London, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Cardiff and Edinburgh will still be in breach of EU limits on air pollution for at least the next five years, despite an air quality action plan issued by the government on Thursday. The plan is a response to a supreme court ruling in April on the governments failure to meet European limits of harmful NOx gases, which are mostly caused by diesel traffic and blamed for nearly 9,500 premature deaths each year in London alone. But...
Scientists: Coral blight spreading worldwide
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The bleaching of colorful coral is spreading into a worldwide, devastating crisis, scientists say, and they predict it will likely get worse. Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say. The spread of sickly white started more than a year ago in Guam, then devastated Hawaii, infected the rest of the tropical Pacific and the Indian oceans and...
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