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By Deborah Zabarenko WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As much of the United States basks in summer-like temperatures, weather and climate experts said this year's warm winter could mean early corn planting, a risk of killing frost for apricots and a baby boom for tree-chomping bark beetles in the West. The winter of 2011-12 was the fourth-warmest in the 117-year record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which uses meteorological winter, which ended on February 29. [More]

Recent weeks have seen a spate of news articles (three examples here , here , and here ) claiming that wreckage from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami has started arriving on the west coast of North America. Is that likely?

Recent weeks have seen a spate of news articles (three examples here , here , and here ) claiming that wreckage from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami has started arriving on the west coast of North America. Is that likely? [More]

By Lauren Keiper BOSTON (Reuters) - Rising sea waters may threaten U.S. coastal cities later this century, while the Midwest and East Coast are at high risk for intense storms, and the West could see compromised water supplies

Islay, rising out of the stormy Atlantic off the west coast of Scotland, is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides and is home to eight windswept distilleries.

Instead of the usual chips, soda, and other processed food, Chinese gourmands can now have a live crab dispensed to them at the mall or airport.

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Changing wind patterns could accelerate sea level rise along the West Coast, new research suggests. The cause is an apparent shift in a climate cycle called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO, said researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Israeli settlers on the West Bank have discovered a new way of getting their message across: Violent shoot 'em ups based on the Six Day War and Biblical history. Israeli settlers in the West Bank have stumbled on a new way to get their message across: computer games

The world is becoming a heavier place, especially in the West.  Global obesity rates have doubled since 1980, new research shows.  Among developed countries, Americans are the fattest and the Japanese are the slimmest.