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Wild weather: Met Office asks scientists what is causing Britain's strange seasons

2013-06-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: They have faithfully provided predications about Britain's notoriously variable weather for more than 150 years, but even the Met Office has been forced to admit that it is baffled by the recent unseasonable conditions to have hit the UK. Experts from around Britain are being brought together by the Met Office next week for a special meeting in an attempt to unpick what has been causing the spate of unusual seasons. They will examine what may be responsible for the cold winter of 2010, the...

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Whats Causing Purple and Yellow Corn Plants?

2013-06-14 17:38:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

By Emerson Nafziger, University of Illinois The corn crop that was planted in May is up and growing in most fields, but there have been numerous reports of fields with uneven plant sizes and colors, including purple and yellow plants. Many corn farmers are wondering if this will decrease potential corn yields. read more

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New UK visa rules 'causing anguish'

2013-06-10 01:02:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

New migration rules for people from outside the European Union are "tearing British families apart", a group of MPs and peers claim.

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Climate change causing US wildfire season to last longer, Congress told

2013-06-04 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: America's wildfire season lasts two months longer than it did 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it did in those earlier days because of the hotter, drier conditions produced by climate change, the country's forest service chief told Congress on Tuesday. But the forest service was forced to make sharp cuts to fire prevention programmes, and reduce the numbers of fire-fighters and engines because of budget pressures, Thomas Tidwell, the chief of the United States Forest Service, told...

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