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Snow and slush blanket much of US prompting many to ask: where's spring?
2013-03-25 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five days after the official start of spring, much of the US remained firmly in the grip on winter on Monday as a wide-ranging storm pushed towards the east coast after blanketing the mid-west with snow and slush. Light rain and snow fell in New Jersey on Monday morning after the storm dropped between 2in (5cm) and 6in (15cm) in Ohio. Similar accumulations were expected in some areas of Pennsylvania, except for higher elevations like the Laurel Mountains southeast of Pittsburgh, where 6in (15cm)...
Bad weather prompting more British farmers to consider GM use
2013-01-04 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The extreme weather of 2012 has turned British farmers on to genetically modified crops, with calls from farming leaders to start using the technology as a way to help combat the effects of climate change. England's wettest year on record, and the UK's second wettest, which had begun with one of the worst droughts for decades, has persuaded an increasing number of farmers that the development of crop varieties with engineered resistance to extreme weather conditions is now a priority. Farming...