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Hot Weather's Return Brings Ozone Warnings
Tue,1 May 2012 04:40 AM PDT
HealthDay - MONDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) -- Health risks from ground-level ozone pollution spike between March and October, lung specialists at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston have found. Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Permit glut points to new EU carbon policy tool
Tue,1 May 2012 03:39 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Any one-off European Union intervention to clear the massive glut of permits now clogging its emissions trading scheme is likely to lead to a 'central bank' or other policy tool to manage future imbalances in the world's biggest carbon market. If it does act, the European Commission, the bloc's executive, is cautious about entrenching such a mechanism in the scheme, the bloc's chief weapon to fight climate change. ... Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Tue,1 May 2012 03:05 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Weather Underground Forecast for Tuesday, May 01, 2012. A moderately strong storm will move through the Northeast Tuesday, producing more rain from Ohio through New England. The heaviest of this rain will likely move from Ohio very early in the morning to New York and Massachusetts into the afternoon. By the end of the day, the storm will be far enough off the coast and into the Atlantic Ocean that most of its associated rain will have diminished. The associated cold front will drape across the Appalachians, where it will provide mainly light to moderate rain in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.
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Burundi lifts food import duty to ease living costs
Tue,1 May 2012 02:31 AM PDT
Reuters -  BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi has suspended taxes on imported basic foods such as flour and oil to help citizens squeezed by a jump in living costs that has prompted strikes, its president said on Tuesday. The government said last week that food production in the central African nation fell 30 percent in 2011 from the previous year due to harsh weather conditions, and it does not expect output to improve during the February-May harvest season. ...
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Tornado hits small Oklahoma town, knocks out power
Mon,30 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT
Reuters - OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A tornado hit a small Oklahoma town on Monday, knocking out power to the community of 1,000 residents and damaging a farm just two weeks after a tornado elsewhere in the state killed at least six people, the National Weather Service said. No injuries were immediately reported in Monday night's twister in Medford, but much of northern Oklahoma was placed under tornado watch through the night, and flash flood warnings were issued due to heavy rains the past two days, said Forrest Mitchell of the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma. ... Full Story | Top |
Hotel company sues government over Tenn. flooding
Mon,30 Apr 2012 05:14 PM PDT
Associated Press - Gaylord Entertainment Co. filed a lawsuit Monday accusing the National Weather Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of negligence that heavily damaged its luxury hotel in Nashville and the famous Grand Ole Opry House during flooding in 2010. Full Story | Top |
Study Finds Increased Warming Over Wind Farms
Mon,30 Apr 2012 03:37 PM PDT
Yahoo! Contributor Network - According to Science Daily, scientists at the State University of New York at Albany published a study in the journal Nature Climate Change that concludes large wind farms might have a warming effect. Researchers assessed satellite data of the areas surrounding large wind energy farms in Texas over a span of nine years from 2003 to 2011. Here are the details. Full Story | Top |
Do wind farms actually cause climate change?
Mon,30 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT
The Week (RSS) - Here's a curveball on climate change: New research published in the journal Nature Climate Change suggests that large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate. Many countries are rapidly expanding their capacity to generate electricity using wind-driven turbines as they try to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases created by the burning of fossil fuels. But are wind farms contributing to the very problem they're supposed to help solve? Here, a brief guide: How much do wind farms heat up the air? Researchers at the State University of New York at ... Full Story | Top |
Warm weather can add to US growth or weaken it
Fri,27 Apr 2012 10:26 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the first three months of this year. Governments spent less, and businesses cut back on investment. But consumers spent at the fastest pace in more than a year.
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Weird Weather is Making America Antsy
Fri,27 Apr 2012 08:25 AM PDT
LiveScience.com - Is your house driving you buggy? If so, you're not alone. A national survey in the U.S. found that 84 percent of American homeowners experienced a pest problem in the last 12 months, which could make this a good year for pest control professionals. Slightly more than half of all homeowners think it's essential to use the services of a pest control company. Full Story | Top |
Kenya Q1 tea output falls 15 pct on extreme weather
Fri,27 Apr 2012 02:13 AM PDT
Reuters -  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tea production for the first three months of this year fell 15 percent to 72 million kg compared with the same period in 2011, hurt by extreme weather conditions, the Tea Board of Kenya said on Friday "The fall is mostly weather related. The drought was quite severe this time around. Initially there were cases of frost and we had about 3,000 hectares under attack," Sicily Kariuki, the board's managing director, told Reuters. Kenya is the world's leading exporter of black tea, and the commodity is its tope foreign exchange earner.
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Deckers ' 1st-qtr profit falls short of forecasts
Thu,26 Apr 2012 04:14 PM PDT
Associated Press - Deckers Outdoor Corp. said Thursday that the unusually warm winter weather hurt demand for its Ugg boots, which helped send its first-quarter profit down 59 percent. The shoe maker also lowered its full-year guidance, and its shares plunged more than 15 percent after hours. Full Story | Top |
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