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I BLAME GEORGE W. BUSH: U.S. Drought Could Cause Global Unrest. “USDA needs to figure out a way to remove the mandate on ethanol use from corn . . . . If we could free up 20 to 30 percent of the U.S. crop, reduced as it is, it would bring corn prices down very quickly.”

Sweden - Many newborn reindeer calves have frozen to death

“With the unusually late, cold and rainy spring in the mountains, reindeer husbandry has been hit hard,” says this article from Swedish News Dagens Nyheter. “Many newborn calves have frozen to death, causing great economic losses for many reindeer owners.”

“In the Wilhelmina southern village, around a third of reindeer calves froze to death. The snow is still there in some places in the mountains.”

“The snow will not go away this summer unless we have a record hot August,” says Sami village chairman Tomas Nejne.

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