Harsh winter takes heavy toll on honeybees » Johnstown, PA

Kaminski said he has talked to a number of beekeepers whose bees starved because of a winter that gave the region at least some snow every month for six straight months.

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Making Science Public » Families of climate scepticism I: faulty science?

Climategate continues to cast a shadow over the climate debate. The short version of this lengthy saga is that sceptics feel the email leak/hack demonstrated how a prominent group of scientists sought to distort the peer review process, shut out dissenting voices from IPCC reports and go to great lengths to resist Freedom of Information requests to publish datasets. At the launch event of our Making Science Public programme, Mike Hulme argued that practices of climate scientists may not have been particularly unusual within scientific communities, and that perhaps it was these scientific ethics which needed opening up to scrutiny. Physicist Phil Moriarty disagreed, citing his ‘shock’ that such practices had taken place. Commenters on sceptic blog Bishop Hill supported Moriarty’s stance, hailing him as a ‘real scientist’.

2 missing in 2 avalanches in Cascade Mountains, east of Seattle | CTV British Columbia News

The avalanches occurred as heavy snow was falling in the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle.

Unwelcome snow returns to southern Alberta | CTV Calgary News

According to the calendar, spring arrived in Calgary on the 20th of March, but Mother Nature appears to have missed the memo.