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State climatologist says weather changing more rapidly

April 23, 2013 in The Daily Republic

South Dakota’s climate has become more volatile and could make flooding and drainage issues more difficult to manage in the future, a climate expert said Monday.
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UWRF to host climate change discussion

April 3, 2013 in River Falls Journal

On Monday, April 8, Jim Gulliford will host a town-hall style, discussion titled, “Seeds to Supper: What’s Happening on the Land.” Continue Reading

North Dakota moves up on Forbes’ business climate listing

December 18, 2012 in The Dickinson Press

Driven in large part by the Bakken oil play, North Dakota ascended to another lofty perch on a business climate ranking list last week. Continue Reading

Witnesses to climate change coming to Willmar, Minn., for forum Tuesday night

December 2, 2012 in West Central Tribune

WILLMAR Will Steger became known as Minnesota’s “eyewitness to climate change” by telling audiences of the dramatic changes he saw while trekking across the earth’s poles.
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Recent worldwide drought trends not so cut-and-dried

November 19, 2012 in The Daily Republic

Worldwide climate data combined with a more refined technique for assessing droughts reveal that they haven’t expanded as much in recent decades as previously thought.
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SD climatologist sees hope for drought relief next year

October 1, 2012 in The Daily Republic

SIOUX FALLS (AP) South Dakota’s state climatologist sees some hope for drought recovery next year, but not this fall.
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New U.S. planting map for gardeners revised to reflect global warming

January 25, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald

It’s the first time since 1990 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has revised the official guide for the nation’s 80 million gardeners, and much has changed. Nearly entire states, such as Ohio, Nebraska and Texas, are in warmer zones. Continue Reading

Agency: 2011 was 11th warmest on record

January 19, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald

The world last year wasn’t quite as warm as it has been for most of the past decade, government scientists said today, but it continues a general trend of rising temperatures. Continue Reading

South African conference in overtime on future of climate change talks

December 10, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

Some ministers and top climate negotiators left Durban without an agreement today, with time running out and the prospect of an inconclusive end jeopardizing new momentum in the fight against global warming.
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United Nations negotiators struggle to keep world’s only global warming treaty alive

December 9, 2011 in Grand Forks Herald

Negotiators from Europe, tiny islands threatened by rising oceans and the world’s poorest countries sought to keep alive the only treaty governing global warming and move to the next stage, struggling against an unlikely alliance of the United States, China and India. Bleary-eyed delegates worked through the night and all day today, and the two-week U.N. conference stretched past the hour it was supposed to end, with the negotiators looking ahead to a second and final night of meetings expected to last until dawn Saturday. Continue Reading