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Crops in the tropics will do worse, since extra heat where it's already hot hurts more than it helps.

Revising his stance on global warming, President Bush proposed a new target Wednesday for stopping the growth of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

(CNN) -- Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- Powerful storms brought hail, heavy rain and possible tornadoes to Texas and Oklahoma, causing power outages for thousands of customers Thursday morning and at least one death.

CLARENDON, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansans sandbagged their front doors and pumped out their flooded basements Wednesday as a historic crest on the White River moved downstream, and a flooding expert said the state will have to deal with high water for weeks.

Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is "hanging by a thread," the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.

The flooding is responsible for 16 deaths and two people remain missing in the Midwest, the Associated Press reported. Floodwaters in parts of Southeastern Missouri are expected to rise to 12.5 feet (3.81 meters) above flood stage, said Accuweather meteorologist Kerry Schwindenhammer.

At least 11 inches of snow fell at Russellville in west-central Arkansas, state highway department spokesman Randy Ort said.

A broad storm system spread heavy snow across the Great Lakes region Tuesday and fired up violent thunderstorms that knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses in the Southeast.