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Australia Feels Heat of Climate Change
2013-01-08 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Just a few months after U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney airbrushed climate change off the public agenda in the presidential campaign, Australia is providing a sober reminder that political inertia can be felt a world away. More than 100 wildfires are raging across the driest inhabited continent, and the country registered a national average temperature of 40.33 degrees Celsius (104.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the hottest day in more than a century. But while naysayers...
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In Fields and Markets, Guatemalans Feels Squeeze of Biofuel Demand
2013-01-06 04:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal about 15 cents bought eight tortillas; today it buys only four. And eggs have tripled in price because chickens eat corn feed. Meanwhile, in rural areas, subsistence farmers struggle to find a place to sow their seeds. On a recent morning, José Antonio Alvarado was harvesting his corn crop on the narrow median of Highway 2 as trucks zoomed by. Were farming here...
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