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 Inquirer
EU crop yields predicted to be above average this year
| BRUSSELS—Europe's main crop yields will be above average this year thanks to good weather and an increase in the planted area farmed, the European Commission predicted Thursday. | The total "cereals... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Crop Europe Food Harvest Photos |
 The Guardian
Climate change catastrophe by degrees
Bob Watson rightly warns us to prepare for 4C global warming. To avoid that, we must make drastic CO2 cuts now | Melting ice caps in Greenland. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images | Unfortunately, Pr... (photo: NASA/Wallops)
Climate Disaster Environment Photos Science |
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 London Evening Standard
Gardeners on guard as marauding hordes of snails invade vegetable patches
| The summer's wet weather is giving British gardeners a double headache as the damp conditions have led to a plague of snails. | Successive summers of cool and wet weath... (photo: GNU Free Documentation / Jmabel)
Photos Plants UK Vegetable Weather |
 Canada Dot Com
Summer garden brimming with vegetables
| Like many people growing food in their home garden plots, I'm close to being on a 50-foot diet these days. It's like having a grocery store parked practically at the do... (photo: WN/Marzena Bozek)
Food People Photos Vegetables Weather |
 The Times of India
Rain catches Capital on the wrong foot again
| 7 Aug 2008, 0232 hrs IST,TNN NEW DELHI: The evening rain made the traffic crawl on Delhi-Gurgaon expressway also. One c... (photo: WN / nurkamiah)
Delhi India Monsoon Photos Transport |
 United Nations
New UN-backed report suggests how to boost cities' resiliency to climate change
| Searching for survivors in the aftermath of the devasting earthquake in China6 August 2008 – With eight of the world's 10 most populous cities situated near rivers or s... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
China Climate Environment Photos UN |
 Columbia Journalism Review
Déjà Vu All Over Again
| The year was 1980, and the United States was boycotting the Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Correspondents from the USSR filed st... (photo: public domain)
Afghanistan Moscow Olympics Photos US |
 Canada Dot Com
400,000 flee storm's path in South China
| BEIJING - China moved nearly 400,000 people from their homes and called thousands of vessels back to port as its southern coast braced Wednesday for an approaching trop... (photo: WN)
Beijing China Photos Storm Weather |
 The Boston Globe
Tomato restoration
| Tomato season is upon us, and the threat of that most disappointing of summer romances - when one after another of those shapely, flawlessly complexioned beauties piled... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Agriculture Farms Photos Restoration Tomato |
 The Times of India
An hour of rain did this
| 6 Aug 2008, 0709 hrs IST,TNN It took only 14 mm of early morning rain to reduce rush hour traffic to a crawl in the Capital on... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Delhi India Monsoon Photos Weather |
 Inquirer
Recommendations for a rainy day
| The rains are upon us and so are the floods, so it is best to stay indoors at home. However, others opt to stay indoors in a shopping mall. | Someday our mall-going cul... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
Culture Floods Photos Stores Weather |
 CNN
Tropical Storm Edouard comes ashore in Texas
| (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Edouard made landfall Tuesday morning in a wildlife refuge on the upper Texas coast. | The National Hurricane Center said the storm's center rea... (photo: AP / Donna McWilliam)
Climate Photos Storm Texas US |
