News tagged with extreme weather
Related topics: national oceanic and atmospheric administration , climate change , global warming
UN: 2010 tied for warmest year on record
(AP) -- Last year tied with 1998 and 2005 for the warmest year on record, providing further evidence that the planet is slowly heating up, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday.
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Jan 20, 2011 |
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China to step up efforts to control Mother Nature
China plans to step up a weather-manipulation programme that has stirred debate about tinkering with Mother Nature, state media said on Friday.
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Crop failures set to increase under climate change
Large-scale crop failures like the one that caused the recent Russian wheat crisis are likely to become more common under climate change due to an increased frequency of extreme weather events, a new study shows.
Oct 07, 2010 |
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Slowing climate warming may require geoengineering
Geoengineering could prevent the potentially catastrophic climate-change tipping points that loom just ahead, reports a new Cornell study.
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Planning the world's largest water tunnel research facility
The University of Miami College of Engineering has received funding from the Corporacion Andina de Fomento to undertake a feasibility study for a new experimental facility located in Panama. The proposed Water Tunnel of the ...
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Rain shortfall triggers first M-PESA drought insurance payouts for Kenyan farmers
Over 100 farmers in Embu received insurance payouts via M-PESA today, marking the first payouts issued through the mobile phone payment system M-PESA by Kilimo Salama, an innovative micro-insurance program that protects farmers' ...
Sep 21, 2010 |
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In a changing climate, erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor, new report says
Against a backdrop of extreme weather wreaking havoc around the world, a new report warns that increasingly erratic rainfall related to climate change will pose a major threat to food security and economic growth, especially ...
Sep 06, 2010 |
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Shape-shifting robot plane offers safer alternative for maritime rescue
Use of morphing flight control surfaces has enabled the development of a cost effective unmanned air-sea rescue plane that can operate in extreme weather conditions despite its light weight and small size. ...
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Mallory and Irvine: Did extreme weather cause their disappearance?
Their legend has inspired generations of mountaineers since their ill-fated attempt to climb Everest over 80 years ago, and now a team of scientists believe they have discovered another important part of the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Moscow wheezes as smog cloud blankets city
Muscovites Wednesday coughed their way through the hottest days of weather on record in the Russian capital as a smog cloud created by peat fires blanketed the city for a third day in a row.
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Rainy Spells Extended For Europe
Like a patient getting a regular checkup, our understanding of climate gets poked and probed in a number of ways. And just as doctors keep a regular clipboard of vital statistics such as blood pressure and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 24, 2010 |
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El Nino phenomenon to die out by mid-year
Weather experts said Tuesday that El Nino, the weather anomaly that wreaks havoc around the Pacific and east Africa, has peaked and would disappear by mid-year.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2010 |
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China drought leaves millions short of water
Millions of people face drinking water shortages in southwestern China because of a once-a-century drought that has dried up rivers and threatens vast farmlands, state media reported Wednesday.
Mar 17, 2010 |
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First micro-insurance plan uses mobile phones and weather stations to shield Kenya's farmers
As East Africa recovers from the worst drought in decades, an innovative program launched today will use a low-cost, mobile phone payment and data system, and automated, solar powered weather stations, to ...
Mar 05, 2010 |
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231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest
(AP) -- First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire's Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 26, 2010 |
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