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Corn Crop - Agriculture - Farming
Crop   Food   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Food security  
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Erratic global weather threatens food security
Stockholm: The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said. | "We... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
People evacuate from Santa Ana Mixta, Guatemala, Monday Sept. 6, 2010. At least 44 people have died after days of torrential rains.
Disaster   Floods   Guatemala   Photos   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
 Al Jazeera 
Guatemala resumes flood rescue work
| Rescue efforts have resumed in flood-stricken Guatemala, while forecasters predict more rain which officials say may hamper search and rescue operations. | A brief window of good... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Rice Farm - Agriculture  IRINnews 
BANGLADESH: Population pressure, climate change drive search for new rice varieties
web | NAOGAON, 6 September 2010 (IRIN) - Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Abdul Aziz from Naogaon District in northwestern Bangladesh has had to adapt his plantings to increasingly erratic weather: â€... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Bangladesh   Photos   Rice   Weather   Wikipedia: International Rice Research Institute  
A woman farmer working in the field  -  Farmland  PhysOrg 
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 a... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
Agriculture   Climate   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Rain  
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A rescue worker runs at a mudslide area in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. The Times Of India
Guatemala declares 'national tragedy' as several killed in landslides
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 36 people and left rescuers digging in the mud ... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing. Zeenews
Mudslides kill at least 22 on Guatemala highway
Guatemala City: Officials say that mudslides on a Guatemalan highway have killed at least 22 people. Scores more are missing. | Police say the first slide yesterday burie... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing. The Star
Guatemala landslides bury up to 100 people
| GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A massive landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala trying to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country.... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
INDIA-WEATHER-RAINIndia Weather Rain  at Kolkata in Eastern India City ---- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK The Times Of India
Heavy rains lash Delhi
NEW DELHI: Heavy rains lashed Delhi overnight leading to water logging at several places and throwing traffic out of gear, even as weather department said that monsoon is... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Delhi   Monsoon   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Monsoon  
Tomato Plant - Tomatoes - Planting - Crop The Examiner
Not all local gardens are suffering because of the extreme weather
| “It might be very easy, given the extreme weather the Knoxville area has been experiencing this growing season, to automatically assume that all the gardens that are ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Garden   Greenhouse   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Gardening  
Corn Plant - Crop - Farming - Agriculture The Examiner
Local corn patch hit hard by the extreme weather of this summer's growing season
| “One local gardener,” D. Hopkinson, former owner/partner in the DanDe Greenhouse here in Clinton, Tennessee, reports, “prepared and planted a new corn patch in la... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Corn   Greenhouse   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Maize  
A man protects himself with an umbrella as he rides a bike in Antigua, Guatemala, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Al Jazeera
Guatemala hit by severe weather
| Unrelenting rains and severe weather have lashed Guatemala, leaving at least 21 people dead over the past 24 hours, in what the country's president calls a "nation... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Disaster   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Vehicles drive on a road damaged after heavy rains in Santa Lucia Milpas Altas, Guatemala, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. BBC News
Heavy rains devastate Guatemala
A state of emergency has been declared in Guatemala, where days of heavy rain have caused widespread flooding and landslides. | At least 18 people have been killed, inclu... (photo: AP / Moises Castillo)
Emergency   Guatemala   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: Guatemala  
Sacks of rice - Food - Grain - Commodity Gulf News
Wheat rises on Russian trade ban
| Moscow/Maputo/Chicago: Wheat rose to the highest level in three weeks last week on signs of increased demand for US supplies as world inventories are forecast to f... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Photos   Russia   Trade   Wheat   Wikipedia: Wheat  
Rice - Food - Grains - Commodity The Telegraph India
Global food price hike worries UN
United Nations, Sept. 4: Agricultural experts today cast a wary eye on the steep rise in the cost of wheat prompted by a Russian export ban and the questions looming over... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Agricultural   Food   Photos   Price   Wikipedia: Agriculture  
Climate Change Storms & Hurricanes
- Climate change seen eating into Vietnam GDP
- ANALYSIS - Climate change may add to disaster death tolls
- Greens at odds with Wong on climate change action
- Climate change may add to disaster death tolls
Mosquitoes that spreads diseases like dengue
Malaria and dengue: The sting in climate change
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- Forecast for Sept 7: I'm back with a miserable forecast
- NASA saw strong T-storms in quick-forming Hermine's cent
- NASA Saw Strong T-storms In Hermine's Center
- CIMAS, NOAA research conduct innovative investigations to st
Hurricane
Hurricane Watch Issued for Coasts of Mexico, Texas
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Floods Droughts
- Landowners suspected of diverting water in Pakistan
- Indonesian volcano erupts again in strongest explosion till
- True face of global warming
- A deluged and distressed nation
People unload a victim injured in a suicide bombing, from an ambulance at a local hospital in Kohat, Pakistan Saturday, April 17, 2010.
Deadly Blast Strikes Police Compound in Pakistan
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- Good humour as drought washed away
- Beshears asks for drought assistance
- Gilardino breaks drought as Italy hammer Faroes
- Erratic weather to blame for drought
INDIA-DRY-PADDY-FIELDIndia dry paddy field , these year no rainfall in eastern India most part in west bengal ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK
Farmers in drought-hit Bengal turn to suicide
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Environment Pollution
- 'Green' More Than Just State Capitol
- NZ microbe to produce ethanol from Chinese pollution
- Water waste treatement plants sit idle as pollution problems
- Life sciences the pulse of the future, expert asserts
A view of chinar (maple) trees during autumn in Srinagar on November 08, 2009. Trees are changing colours while the days become shorter as winter approaches in the Kashmiri summer capital of Srinagar.
And now for a very peculiar autumn
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- A Shipper Moves to Cleaner Fuel When in Hong Kong
- Ruled by a fickle beast with many ugly heads
- Danish Shipping Giant to Switch to Cleaner Fuel When in Hong
- California's Prop 23 is bad news for Latino families
The Maersk Sealand ship "Sealand Commitment" is seen loading and unloading containers Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000 at Massport's Conley Terminal in Boston.
Danish Shipping Giant to Switch to Cleaner Fuel When in Hong Kong
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Wildlife Natural Disasters
- Crocodile sanctuary destroyed by mob inflamed by psychic
- Is organic farming good for wildlife? It depends on the alte
- Acting Wildlife Authority Boss Survives Buffalo By Whisker
- Alipore Zoo to get Asiatic lions from Hyderabad for captive
Crocodile - Animal
Crocodile sanctuary destroyed by mob inflamed by psychic
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- Monsoon to last longer: Met office
- Monsoon withdrawal delayed by five more days: IMD
- Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen
- No signs of 'dead zone' in Gulf, feds say
Hurricane
Hurricane Watch Issued for Coasts of Mexico, Texas
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