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VIDEO: Singapore's hidden poverty problem
2014-02-20 04:08:31| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Singapore has become on the wealthiest countries in the world, but poverty remains a problem. The BBC's Sharanjit Leyl reports.
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Kerry: Climate change as big a threat as terrorism, poverty, WMDs
2014-02-17 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Saying that climate change ranks among the world's most serious problems -- such as disease outbreaks, poverty, terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on all nations to respond to "the greatest challenge of our generation." Kerry, speaking before college students in Jakarta, Indonesia, also criticized climate-change deniers, saying "a few loud interest groups" shouldn't be given the chance to misdirect the conversation. Kerry...
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Bono, Cameron talk poverty, climate at AP debate
2014-01-24 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global leaders argued Friday that efforts to eradicate poverty must be linked to climate change, saying that rising temperatures will have widespread effects on everything from food supplies to education. Panelists at two separate sessions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland -- among them Bill Gates, Al Gore and U2 frontman Bono -- underlined the importance of the issue. The United Nations is also making climate change a priority at Davos this year, pushing for a U.N.-brokered internationally...
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Warming climate could push Amazon region into further poverty
2013-12-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: A funny thing happened during Australian climate-change professor Chris Turney's venture to retrace a 1912 research expedition in Antarctica and gauge how climate change has affected the continent: Two weeks into a five-week excursion, Turney's good ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy got trapped in ice. It turns out, global warming notwithstanding, that there's so much ice down under that two ice-breaking vessels sent to rescue the research team cannot reach the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Years...
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West Africa Hopes New Hydropower Dams Will Cut Poverty, Climate Risk
2013-12-18 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: West African states in the Niger River Basin are seeking to tackle climate risks and reduce poverty by constructing three hydropower dams in the next five years. In late November, the Council of Ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA), meeting in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, endorsed an environmental and climate action plan for sustainable management of the scenic basin and its rich natural resources, which have come under threat from climate change. The projects include a 102 megawatt (MW)...
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