LEO Network - Search Resultshttp://leonetwork.org2024-03-29T09:23:29Zhttp://leonetwork.org/Images/logo.pnguuid:7D126655-0213-439A-96FD-34A1A74A64BELater frosts could make new crops possible in Alaska, but climate change brings challenges, too2023-10-25T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Fairbanks, Alaska, United States</h3><p>October 25, 2023</p><p>Shifting seasons and hotter temperatures could allow Alaska farmers to grow more abundant and diverse produce. But climate change can also bring drought, pests and permafrost thaw. Human-caused climate change is bringing longer and warmer growing seasons, but also pests and unstable weather.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/4218D92A-7749-4EAB-874C-880804F350E5'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/7D126655-0213-439A-96FD-34A1A74A64BE'>Read more...</a></p></div>64.83778 -147.71639uuid:82B48638-ACEE-4EDB-8B07-8CA27E0B9C00Influenza found in pigs at Oakland County Fair2023-07-17T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Detroit, Michigan, United States</h3><p>July 17, 2023</p><p>Officials say several pigs at the Oakland County Fair tested positive for the Influenza A virus, with is the causative agent of the swine flu.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/E9AA1A24-DF94-4C7B-B1C9-47E0E5C6FFD9'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/82B48638-ACEE-4EDB-8B07-8CA27E0B9C00'>Read more...</a></p></div>42.33143 -83.04575uuid:EC06A540-EE7D-4538-8A39-83D0898D8192Cold, wet weather delays lucrative peony harvest in Southcentral Alaska2023-07-13T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Willow, Alaska, United States</h3><p>July 13, 2023</p><p>Alaska is one of the only places in the world where peony flowers grow in the summer months. But the unusually cold, wet weather this year is delaying the blooms by weeks.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/01E2A82B-74A8-4471-8838-57A424E1DA35'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/EC06A540-EE7D-4538-8A39-83D0898D8192'>Read more...</a></p></div>61.74722 -150.0375uuid:B15C3203-AA28-4A65-A4D1-BBB48B1B197DDanger of lightning and thunder in South Norway Monday2023-06-26T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Årdal I Ryfylke, Rogaland, Norway</h3><p>June 26, 2023</p><p>Heavy rain, lightning and thunder are causing trouble in several places in southern Norway on Monday. But for farmer Sveinar Vadla, these are long-awaited drops.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/35E56AE2-823A-4FCA-94E1-241DB93B86E3'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/B15C3203-AA28-4A65-A4D1-BBB48B1B197D'>Read more...</a></p></div>59.179854 6.394203uuid:A82329F8-1FEF-408C-883A-8603B5EDA98EPersistent drought 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan</h3><p>March 21, 2023</p><p>"In our country Afghanistan I have observed that the level of water is decreasing day by day."</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/2268B4CB-8E7D-4D87-B99C-58F46E42AEF8'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/A82329F8-1FEF-408C-883A-8603B5EDA98E'>Read more...</a></p></div>34.5341952 69.1175424uuid:484582DD-FBC3-46B8-B835-2811AA7D691ELandslide over county road – 100 people isolated2023-03-10T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Småvika, Flatanger, Trøndelag</h3><p>March 10, 2023</p><p>Alf Åge Teigmo heard a huge crash: "First came a river, then forest and large boulders.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/78955C3C-FE59-49FC-AF6C-A57C4807C142'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/484582DD-FBC3-46B8-B835-2811AA7D691E'>Read more...</a></p></div>64.5511713828832 11.0682734522187uuid:FEEE687D-4DED-4CDA-9BD0-E84A9EDB5072"Should have received four tons of plums"2022-10-31T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Linge farm, Valldal, Fjord community, Vestland</h3><p>October 31, 2022</p><p>Norwegian fruit farmers are seeking compensation for poor harvests due to extreme weather conditions, with over 1,000 farmers applying for compensation this year, compared to under 500 last year, as cold weather destroyed crops in the west and north, while drought hit the east and inland areas.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/D5AB0B71-7552-4C30-9FE2-D5A4982CD513'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/FEEE687D-4DED-4CDA-9BD0-E84A9EDB5072'>Read more...</a></p></div>62.2991845 7.2005288uuid:96A54C45-8038-4597-8836-D40C1469A257Coastal Maine enters severe drought conditions as dry weather continues2022-08-05T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States</h3><p>August 5, 2022</p><p>Eight counties on the coast have gone from moderate to severe drought status since last week, according to the latest update from the U.S. Drought Monitor. Meanwhile, almost one-third of the state remains in moderate drought, and wells across the state are beginning to run dry.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/BFE20971-2BC2-4627-A5D1-E21DE2B7602A'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/96A54C45-8038-4597-8836-D40C1469A257'>Read more...</a></p></div>43.593143 -70.228933uuid:08CCF990-3884-47C3-92B1-9CC00B590CE4Avian flu detected in Norway wild birds2022-05-19T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Vardø, Troms and Finnmark County, Norway</h3><p>May 19, 2022</p><p>During February and March, six new findings of highly pathogenic bird flu virus (HPAI) were made in sea eagles in the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Trøndelag, Nordland and Troms and Finnmark. Thus far, eight reliable detections have been made in sea eagles in Norway this bird flu season, which is unique in the European context.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/D40BA4BA-812E-493D-8C1C-EE2728A4612B'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/08CCF990-3884-47C3-92B1-9CC00B590CE4'>Read more...</a></p></div>70.37048 31.11066uuid:2C1166B0-F06E-477C-9944-53384F630C4ARecord dry late winters have resulted in low water levels in Eastern Norway2022-03-31T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Mjøsa waterbody, Innlandet, Norway</h3><p>March 31, 2022</p><p>Lakes and rivers in Eastern Norway now have some of the lowest water levels they can have for the time of year. At the same time, there is unusually little snow in the mountains, and thus there is little refill ahead.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/FF972F81-145B-4619-A5F0-F5473809E74F'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/2C1166B0-F06E-477C-9944-53384F630C4A'>Read more...</a></p></div>60.794783 11.0681uuid:456B69FE-0C99-49BF-8983-368CAF4D91AAA timeline of how once-in-a-century flooding unfolded across B.C.2021-11-12T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada</h3><p>November 12, 2021</p><p>Extreme rain swamped rivers and farmland across southern B.C. and triggered mudslides that blocked every major highway connecting the Lower Mainland to the rest of the country in November 2021. This is a timeline of the first week of the crisis.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/155755E5-2762-4F4B-A037-105D7781D09C'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/456B69FE-0C99-49BF-8983-368CAF4D91AA'>Read more...</a></p></div>49.07644715912 -122.147970199585uuid:5C01B3D0-5C9C-4578-AC39-ECA1433E59E2Here winter has become two months shorter2021-11-04T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Bodø, Nordland, Norway</h3><p>November 4, 2021</p><p>Winter will never be the way it was, according to scientists. Towards the end of the century, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute predicts that the winter weather will gradually disappear from Oslo.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/ADCF2517-1D6E-4D2E-94AF-3EE428047334'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/5C01B3D0-5C9C-4578-AC39-ECA1433E59E2'>Read more...</a></p></div>67.2964369210048 14.3865966796875uuid:1628642D-440F-47F2-9157-8FAECA04C71ASouthern potato farmers despair2021-09-27T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Þykkvibaer, South, Iceland</h3><p>September 27, 2021</p><p>The wet weather this summer and autumn in southwest Iceland is causing a major headache for the region’s potato farmers. Þykkvibær, one of the country’s best-known potato producers, is suffering a mould outbreak in its potato beds for the first time in 20 years and the soil is too wet for harvesting machines to get to work.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/A0409078-93D9-4C36-B8C3-B8866B937F79'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/1628642D-440F-47F2-9157-8FAECA04C71A'>Read more...</a></p></div>63.7431138888889 -20.6087uuid:1DCB6DA9-2E77-4BAE-A260-346FE7AD8957"Snowlike" Saline Soils in Southern Alberta 2021-08-18T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Farms along Hwy 1 with salt accumulation</h3><p>August 18, 2021</p><p>The large quantity of salt that had accumulated this year, 2021, was a lot more predominant and at a much higher quantity then has been observed in previous years.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/5817D76B-7F71-4364-B610-FBFD79D0BCE1'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/1DCB6DA9-2E77-4BAE-A260-346FE7AD8957'>Read more...</a></p></div>50.9013007088804 -113.009490966797uuid:3400C6C1-AD0B-421A-8C2A-7B0F1015954DThe field has been giving strawberries for 80 years, but not anymore – it's completely dead2021-08-18T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Utskarpen, Rana, Nordland, Norway</h3><p>August 18, 2021</p><p>All farmer Arild Stenhaug is left with is tiny berries that cannot be sold. He believes the cause is climate change. "We have to listen to a farmer who has lost everything," says a researcher.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/4E825870-E588-4760-86D1-D42C563C0A95'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/3400C6C1-AD0B-421A-8C2A-7B0F1015954D'>Read more...</a></p></div>66.2918755 13.6114511uuid:F50E0BE4-259F-4B7E-939E-4B6AA60F2485He has lived for 74 years – for the first time the river is dry2021-08-09T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Skinlo, Breim, Vestland, Norway</h3><p>August 9, 2021</p><p>Extreme drought in the west means that households with private waterworks are out of water. Elvar's dried up. "The situation is very serious," he says.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/41E96C9C-B37A-4C35-BB2B-660A518B368D'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/F50E0BE4-259F-4B7E-939E-4B6AA60F2485'>Read more...</a></p></div>61.7454864 6.4428194uuid:7B88AB36-5174-4E21-B357-D49F39607191European Skipper <em>(Thymelicus lineola)</em> in Northwest, BC2021-07-01T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Smithers, British Columbia, Canada</h3><p>July 1, 2021</p><p>A European Skipper butterfly is observed in Northwest BC, an introduced species and one of several stressors underlying insect declines.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/6358927E-89DB-4433-8D43-4CE94E8211B4'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/7B88AB36-5174-4E21-B357-D49F39607191'>Read more...</a></p></div>54.7638638888889 -127.135447222222uuid:B3615C39-68ED-4C74-8187-4A7C93630952B.C. heat wave 'cooks' fruit crops on the branch in sweltering Okanagan and Fraser valleys 2021-06-30T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Peachland, British Columbia, Canada</h3><p>June 30, 2021</p><p>Farmers are trying to salvage their cherry crops following damage from a week of extreme temperatures. Cherry crops in the BC Interior have been burned due to the extreme temperatures brought by the heat wave at the end of June.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/4C19BC61-6F35-47CC-9FCA-FB31850DD403'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/B3615C39-68ED-4C74-8187-4A7C93630952'>Read more...</a></p></div>49.7031677201799 -119.65942338109uuid:17F32277-1401-4244-962C-3299CCBD16CCMouse Plague 'For every one that died, 10 more were coming in for the funeral' — agony of the plague that came to stay2021-05-14T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Coonamble, New South Wales, Australia</h3><p>May 14, 2021</p><p>Farmer Adam Macrae says it felt like thousands of mice descended on his Coonamble property almost overnight a few months back and since then he has spent tens of thousands trying to fight them. But they're still there.</p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/4B4D6A36-8230-491A-B031-C5376F0C6DFF'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/17F32277-1401-4244-962C-3299CCBD16CC'>Read more...</a></p></div>-30.95389 148.38881uuid:45AE0DCD-8E2F-49F8-AAE6-719E694C576E‘Everyone Loses’: The Government Is Rationing Water at the California-Oregon Border2021-04-26T00:00:00Z2024-03-29T09:23:29ZLEO Networkhttp://leonetwork.orgask.leonetwork@gmail.com<div><h3>Lakeview, Oregon, United States</h3><p>April 26, 2021</p><p>A major drought has forced farmers and Indigenous tribes to compete for water in a situation nobody ever wanted. </p><img src='http://leonetwork.org/en/attachments/thumbnail/B9411029-97DE-4837-B29B-7742AEE160CD'/><p><a href='http://leonetwork.org/posts/show/45AE0DCD-8E2F-49F8-AAE6-719E694C576E'>Read more...</a></p></div>42.1959687762918 -120.2783203125