California: Cool spring, mild summer impact crops

Farmers throughout California’s great Central Valley face a weather-related challenge that they haven’t seen in recent years — the cool, wet spring and subsequent lack of soaring summer temperatures have put virtually all crops behind by 10 days to two weeks.

Norway to pay 30 million dollars to save Indonesian forests

Norway agreed Thursday to advance 30 million dollars to Indonesia in the first installment of a planned billion-dollar scheme to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

After two days of talks in Jakarta, Norwegian officials said they were satisfied that Indonesia was making progress towards its promise to impose a two-year moratorium on deforestation starting in January 2011.

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