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Weather News Headlines - Yahoo! News First major U.S. snowstorm, cold snap may harm some crops Weather Channel Plans To Start Naming Winter Storms Oklahoma Looks to Cooler Weather to Ease Drought Romans, Han Dynasty were greenhouse gas emitters: study Warm DFW Weather Before Weekend Chill Weather trims Ivorian cocoa output by 2 pct Bad weather caused Air Force 2 to delay landings Will Climate Change Slow Marathon Times? Bad weather caused Air Force 2 to delay NC landing Climate Change Could Delay Fall Foliage Colors [Video] Weather Channel to give blizzards names Botox Smooths Moods; Retractions Due to Fraud Are Way Up Weather helps rapid pace of SD row crop harvest Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds How asteroid dust could help us cool down Earth Scientists Propose Asteroid Dust Shield to Combat Global Warming UK plan to merge Antarctic, ocean research stirs science row Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Change? Kenya FY tea earnings seen up, output to drop Candidates Mum on Climate Change Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth Scientist who saw drowned polar bears reprimanded Pray for Rain Lightning Still Largely a Mystery Weather Channel heads to swing states for election First major U.S. snowstorm, cold snap may harm some crops CHICAGO (Reuters) - The first major snowfall of the year and a cold snap set to sweep into the northern Midwest could harm some late-maturing corn and soybeans crops and delay the harvest, an agricultural meteorologist and the National Weather Service said on Thursday. The storm is centered in a small area across northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, including the fertile Red River Valley, where farmers are still harvesting their corn and soybean crops after the worst drought in half a century devastated U.S. grain this year. ... Full Story Top Weather Channel Plans To Start Naming Winter Storms Full Story Top Oklahoma Looks to Cooler Weather to Ease Drought The cooler temperatures in Oklahoma predicted for Thursday and the five days thereafter might put a dent in the effects of the extreme and exceptional drought conditions. The chances of showers for Thursday, Friday and Saturday would be even more appreciated by the Sooner State's residents if the precipitation comes their way. Full Story Top Romans, Han Dynasty were greenhouse gas emitters: study OSLO (Reuters) - A 200-year period covering the heyday of both the Roman Empire and China's Han dynasty saw a big rise in greenhouse gases, according to a study that challenges the U.N. view that man-made climate change only began around 1800. A record of the atmosphere trapped in Greenland's ice found the level of heat-trapping methane rose about 2,000 years ago and stayed at that higher level for about two centuries. ... Full Story Top Warm DFW Weather Before Weekend Chill Full Story Top Weather trims Ivorian cocoa output by 2 pct ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Cocoa output from the world's top grower Ivory Coast slipped by 2.3 percent during the 2011-12 season compared with the previous year's bumper crop due to drier, windier weather, sector regulator CCC said on Wednesday. Cocoa arrivals to ports in the country - the best gauge of production - totaled 1,475,756 million tonnes, down from a record 1,510,664 tonnes during the previous season, CCC director Massandje Toure told journalists. ... Full Story Top Bad weather caused Air Force 2 to delay landings Bad weather forced the plane carrying Vice President Joe Biden to delay landings twice on Tuesday. Full Story Top Will Climate Change Slow Marathon Times? Climate change is blamed for melting ice, shrinking animals and brewing more intense storms around the globe — but is it slowing the top finish times at the Boston Marathon? Not yet, researchers found, though future increases in temperature could mean fewer records are broken. Full Story Top Bad weather caused Air Force 2 to delay NC landing A thunderstorm in North Carolina forced the plane carrying Vice President Joe Biden to delay landing for more than 30 minutes. Full Story Top Climate Change Could Delay Fall Foliage Colors [Video] Climate Change Could Delay Fall Foliage Colors [Video] Full Story Top Weather Channel to give blizzards names Full Story Top Botox Smooths Moods; Retractions Due to Fraud Are Way Up Discovered: Botox lifts faces and moods; papers retracted due to fraud more often than error; climate change could decimate fish; African salmonella outbreak connected to HIV. Full Story Top Weather helps rapid pace of SD row crop harvest Agriculture officials say ideal weather conditions in South Dakota have pushed the row crop harvest far ahead of last year's pace and the five-year average. Full Story Top Weather On Mars Surprisingly Warm, Curiosity Rover Finds NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is enjoying some nice, warm weather on the Red Planet — and spring hasn't even come to its landing site yet. Full Story Top How asteroid dust could help us cool down Earth Scientists in Scotland have developed an unorthodox plan to help fight climate change: They want to trigger a far-off asteroid to spew a large dust cloud into space. This dust would function as a cosmic shade to block some of the sun's harmful radiation from reaching Earth. Who's behind the project? And is it even feasible? What you need to know:What's the plan, exactly? Space experts at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland want to send a spaceship to an asteroid near Langrange point L1, "a site where the gravitational pull of the sun and the Earth balance each other to keep an object ... Full Story Top Scientists Propose Asteroid Dust Shield to Combat Global Warming According to Space.com, a group of scientists in Scotland are publishing a paper in the journal Advances in Space Research that contemplates using asteroid dust to shield the Earth from solar radiation, thus mitigating the effects of global warming. Full Story Top UK plan to merge Antarctic, ocean research stirs science row LONDON (Reuters) - A British government plan to merge its Antarctic research division with a centre studying the oceans has triggered protests from scientists who said it would cut studies of polar climate change and rising sea levels. They said the British Antarctic Survey had a strong history of discovery including, in 1985, of a hole in the ozone layer that protects the planet from harmful solar rays. That helped spur a 1987 United Nations treaty on damaging chemicals. ... Full Story Top Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Change? Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Change? Full Story Top Kenya FY tea earnings seen up, output to drop NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tea export earnings are expected to rise 1 percent year on year to 110 billion shillings in 2012, despite a forecast drop in production, the industry regulator said on Monday. The Tea Board of Kenya said production was expected to fall by 5 percent to 360 million kgs this year, after frost and delayed rains hurt growth of tea bushes earlier in the year. "We have experienced severe weather conditions during the first few months of the year," Sicily Kariuki, the board's managing director, told a news conference. ... Full Story Top Candidates Mum on Climate Change How can we break the ice and get a political conversation started about climate change, David Biello asks Full Story Top Asteroid Dust Could Fight Climate Change on Earth To combat global warming, scientists in Scotland now suggest an out-of-this-world solution — a giant dust cloud in space, blasted off an asteroid, which would act like a sunshade for Earth. Full Story Top Scientist who saw drowned polar bears reprimanded An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents. Full Story Top Pray for Rain The weather forecast could have a big effect on America's economic forecast next year. The more rain, the better. Full Story Top Lightning Still Largely a Mystery Some 44,000 thunderstorms rage worldwide each day, delivering as many as 100 lightning bolts to the ground every second. These dramatic, deafening flashes of electricity recharge the global battery by keeping the ground flush with negative electric charge and maintaining the ionosphere's positive charge. Lightning turns the Earth into an electric circuit, and it may have even delivered the spark that got life started in the primordial soup. Full Story Top Weather Channel heads to swing states for election Snowstorms, hurricanes and tornados are what usually put The Weather Channel's news team in motion. This November it will mobilize for the election. Full Story Top

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