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In 2012, the United States suffered its worst drought in 24 years, which led to the worst harvest yields in nearly two decades. Read how scientists are using this data to validate crop yield and climate impact models that simulate the effects of climate on agriculture.

Following last week's EGI Community Forum 2013, read our pick of the highlights from the GridCast blog.

At this year's International Symposium on Grids and Clouds, EGI's Steven Newhouse and NSF's Daniel Katz, provided perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean on ways to measure the success of e-infrastructures, including the people and services that contribute to their development.

'CRISP', is a European project established to help encourage and enable collaborating partners to combine their know-how and complementary expertise in the field of physics research in an effective manner. iSGTW reports from their 2nd Annual meeting, which was held at the Paul Scherrer Institute last week.

Next week, iSGTW will be at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2013 and the CRISP 2nd Annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for regular updates from both events.

Announcing the winners of the e-Infrastructure FP7 Project Success Story Competition. Plus, be sure to follow us on social media and check out the GridCast blog for regular updates from the 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting in Brussels.

Climate change is having a catastrophic impact on the environment in central Asia, where the Tien Shan glacier lost nearly 2 km³ of ice per year between 1955 and 2000. However, a greater capacity to share meteorological data at a local and international level could help mitigate future natural hazards. Discover how the CAREN and GÉANT networks are helping scientists in the region to achieve this.

Computer engineers at CERN last week announced that the CERN data center has recorded over 100 petabytes of physics data over the last 20 years.

On Friday 1 February, 2013, CERN and Oracle celebrated 30 years of collaboration. In addition to providing hardware and software to CERN for three decades, Oracle has now been involved in the CERN openlab project for 10 years.

Wolfgang Gentzsch, co-founder of the UberCloud HPC experiment and advisor to EUDAT, speaks exclusively to iSGTW about the challenges facing cloud computing in the run up to this month’s Cloudscape V conference in Brussels, Belgium.