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Study: Ethanol may add to global warming

The widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land-use changes, researchers concluded

Global winter coldest since '01, but still warmer than usual - USATODAY.com

Winter storms and snow notwithstanding, this winter was still warmer than average worldwide,

Study Shows Bacteria Are Common in Snow

Those beautiful snowflakes drifting out of the sky may have a surprise inside - bacteria.

Canada's Concern: And They Should Know They Live There

A record loss of Artic ice made Canada's #1 weather concern for 2007.

Baghdad Gets Snow for the First Time in 100 Years

On early Friday morning, a light snow fell on the city of Baghdad, a phenomenon not experienced by the Iraqi city in about 100 years.

Heavy snow affects one million Chinese

Heavy snow has already affected 1.21 million people in east China's Anhui Province as the country braces for the coldest part of winter.

Climate change threatens West's water, world's crops

The potential that global warming has to dry up water resources in the American West and the food supplies of 1 billion people in the poorest regions of Africa and Asia are the focus of two studies

Wild weather battered USA in January

Rare winter tornadoes in the Midwest. Powerful Pacific storms with hurricane force winds. More than 1,000 daily high temperature records. And that's just in the first month of 2008. Is January the new March?

Warming Atlantic worsens hurricanes

When the water in the hurricane breeding grounds of the Atlantic warms one degree in the dead of summer, overall hurricane activity jumps by half, according to a new study.

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Why the snow crisis happened in China

The recent extreme cold weather and snowfalls almost handicapped the transportation of the whole China.

Spring keeps coming earlier for birds, bees, trees - USATODAY.com

The fingerprints of man-made climate change are evident in seasonal timing changes for thousands of species on Earth, according to dozens of studies and last year's authoritative report by the Nobel Prize-winning international climate scientists. More than 30 scientists told The Associated Press how global warming is affecting plants and animals at springtime across the country, in nearly every state.

Interactive Weather Presenting Kit

A free [UK] CD to study the weather, and make weather maps, includes satellite images

Freeze after snow in South, Gulf Coast

Freezing cold spread across the South and all the way to the Gulf Coast early Sunday, a day after the region got an unusual coating of snow.

Nation's 'Icebox' hits record 40 below zero

The temperature in International Falls, Minnesota, fell to a record 40 below zero ...just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation."

Possibly NOAA's National Weather Service Funniest Report

That's some record snowfall :)