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Nervous North American farmers set to 'seed in faith' into parched soils

Fields across the Canadian Prairies and the U.S. Northern Plains are among the driest on record, raising production risks in one of the world's key growing regions for canola and spring wheat.
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Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada's remote regions
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Wheat in Whitehorse: How climate change helps feed Canada's remote regions

Large-scale farming with quality harvests remains an elusive challenge in Canada's far north, due to short summers and lack of infrastructure to store and transport commodities. But a warming climate makes crops possible in far-flung, isolated places.

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Closer to average weather patterns to prevail through winter as El Niño fades: U.S. CPC

Closer to average weather patterns to prevail through winter as El Niño fades: U.S. CPC

Amid waning El Niño conditions, weather patterns are expected to be closer to average through the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2019-20, with "ENSO-neutral conditions" having a 50%-55% chance of continuing during the season, a U.S. government weather forecaster says.

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Antarctica's krill shift south as icy waters warm
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Antarctica's krill shift south as icy waters warm

Krill are shifting south towards Antarctica as the oceans warm, disrupting stocks that are eaten by penguins and whales and caught by industrial trawlers, scientists said on Monday.

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Heatwave ravages European fields, sending wheat prices soaring

Searing heat has devastated wheat fields across northern Europe while a combination of dry conditions and extreme rain in the Black Sea have hit output estimates, with prices soaring on fears of further crop damage.
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Kenya's ground-down coffee farmers switch to avocado amid global boom

Kenya's ground-down coffee farmers switch to avocado amid global boom

With coffee harvests also varying in the face of harsher and less predictable weather, thousands of Kenyan coffee farmers are switching to avocados.

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Drought to shrink Kansas wheat crop to smallest since 1989: Tour

Drought to shrink Kansas wheat crop to smallest since 1989: Tour

Drought sapped yield potential for the Kansas wheat crop and likely will result in the smallest harvest in the top wheat growing state since 1989, scouts said on the final day of a annual crop tour on Thursday.
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Coal stockpiles strain US power sector as demand wanes

Bogotá faces water rationing

Bogotá faces water rationing

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Wisconsin oil spill fuels doubts over Enbridge’s pipeline safety

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Hydrogen hubs test new federal environmental justice rules

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Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

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Op-ed: The real scam — rail against renewables, run away with factories

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Cyclone devastates Mayotte