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Tropical Storm Debby rains misery on flooded Florida
Tue,26 Jun 2012 02:53 PM PDT
Reuters -  TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Debby weakened as it drifted ashore on Florida's Gulf Coast on Tuesday, dumping more rain on flooded areas and sending thousands of people fleeing from rising rivers. After stalling in the Gulf for two days, the large and ragged storm finally began moving eastward. The center crossed the shore late Tuesday afternoon near Steinhatchee, in the Big Bend area where the Panhandle joins the peninsula. Most of the thunderstorms and rain were northeast of the storm center and had already dumped 2 feet of rain over parts of Florida. ...
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Federal court upholds EPA's global warming rules
Tue,26 Jun 2012 01:00 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming, handing down perhaps the most significant decision on the issue since a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants.
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Retirement Spots With Year-Round Pleasant Weather
Tue,26 Jun 2012 10:02 AM PDT
U.S.News & World Report LP - Many people dream of a retirement in which they will never again have to shovel snow or defrost a car. But at the same time, not many retirees want to swelter through or pay the air conditioning bills associated with several months' worth of 95-degree days. Full Story | Top |
Analysis: Kuwait to weather crisis but faces long-run instability
Tue,26 Jun 2012 06:43 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Kuwait is likely to face more instability in the long run even when it emerges from its latest crisis, as its opposition pushes for more say in governing the major oil exporter and U.S. ally. The Gulf state has escaped the kind of mass popular protests that forced four Arab dictators out of office in 18 months. But the success of those uprisings has heightened opposition calls for a full parliamentary democracy in Kuwait in which governments are chosen by elected majority blocs. ... Full Story | Top |
Court Upholds EPA Climate-Change Rules
Tue,26 Jun 2012 04:25 AM PDT
National Journal - A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, throwing out legal challenges by states and industry groups that argued the EPA had exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act by declaring that carbon emissions endanger public health. Full Story | Top |
The nation's weather
Tue,26 Jun 2012 03:49 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Weather Underground Forecast for Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Tropical Storm Debby will continue to be the main weather story in the country on Tuesday as the storm spins south of Apalachicola, Florida. Debby is expected to move very slowly to the eastward over the next few days, possibly making landfall as a tropical storm south of Perry, Florida Wednesday evening. The main concern associated with Debby will continue to be its rain. Several more inches of rain are possible for parts of Florida, with the heaviest rain expected north of Tampa Bay. A storm surge of a few feet is also possible for parts of western Florida, further increasing the flood threat. For more information on Debby, please see http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/.
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Exercise Reduces Breast Cancer Risk; Is Facebook Better Than Sex?
Mon,25 Jun 2012 02:57 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  Discovered: Exercise reduces breast cancer risk, Facebook is better than sex?, parents aren't careful enough about kid allergies, and it just takes two degrees of warming for bit climate change.Exercise reduces breast cancer risk. What sounds like an easy way to cut back one's risk of the disease is actually a lot harder than it sounds. Those who exercised 9 to 17 hours per week, meaning more than one hour per day, reduced their breast cancer risk by 30 percent. Looking at 3,000 women those who exercised during their 20s and 30s, were less likely to develop the disease during ...
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Forecasters: Debby's threat to La. decreases
Sun,24 Jun 2012 01:53 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The National Weather Service has discontinued a tropical storm warning for Louisiana after forecast models indicated that the state is under less of a threat from Tropical Storm Debby than initially thought.
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Tropical storm threat shuts some U.S. Gulf oil output
Sun,24 Jun 2012 04:29 AM PDT
Reuters - HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil and gas producers ramped up production shutdowns and evacuated workers in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday as Tropical Storm Debby became the first named storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season to disrupt operations in the prolific basin. BP Plc said late on Saturday that it had issued instructions to shut down oil and gas production at its seven platforms in the Gulf and stepped up worker evacuations as weather conditions worsened. "Those unable to evacuate will shelter in place for the tropical storm," BP said. ... Full Story | Top |
Climate activists scale gates of Buckingham Palace
Sat,23 Jun 2012 11:48 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Four climate change activists scaled gates at Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace home on Saturday and locked themselves to railings in a protest demanding more urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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NJ airport fire having ripple effect on US flights
Fri,22 Jun 2012 10:52 PM PDT
Associated Press - Violent thunderstorms along the East Coast and a fire at an airport technical center in southern New Jersey combined to wreak havoc on flights around the country Friday night, leading one airline executive to tweet that "it will not be a pretty evening." Full Story | Top |
Red Wine, Weather May Trigger Migraines
Fri,22 Jun 2012 08:52 PM PDT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- New research may help answer the age-old question of whether factors such as the weather or drinking red wine can set off a migraine. Full Story | Top |
Rising sea levels to hit California hard by 2100
Fri,22 Jun 2012 03:56 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seas could rise higher along the California coastline this century than in other places in the world, increasing the risk of flooding and storm damage, dune erosion and wetland destruction, the U.S. National Research Council reported Friday. Rising sea levels have long been seen as a consequence of climate change, because as the world warms, glaciers melt and contribute water to the Earth's oceans. At the same time, ocean waters tend to expand as they heat, pushing sea levels higher. The report looked at how much seas could rise by 2100 along the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
Dry weather puts late U.S. soy plantings in jeopardy
Fri,22 Jun 2012 03:26 PM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kelly Robertson jammed a screwdriver into the hard, dry ground on his farm in southern Illinois, carved out six inches of soil and could not find any moisture. Because of the dry conditions, Robertson, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat near Benton, Illinois, did not begin planting soybeans until last week, fearing the seeds would not have enough moisture to germinate. "We sit here and wait for a rain. More correctly, we sit and wait on multiple rain events because one rain ... is not going to be enough," Robertson said in a recent interview. ... Full Story | Top |
Storm may be brewing in Gulf of Mexico
Thu,21 Jun 2012 02:21 PM PDT
Reuters - MIAMI (Reuters) - A large weather disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico could develop into a tropical cyclone in the next couple of days, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. The mass of thunderstorms had a 50 percent chance of developing into a tropical depression or tropical storm within 48 hours and could bring flooding rain to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, western Cuba and southern Florida, the forecasters said. It stretched from the northwest Caribbean into the Gulf and was expected to move slowly northwest to north in the next two or three days. ... Full Story | Top |
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