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Straight talking calms rural water conflicts in Tanzania
2016-03-04 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Daudi Nangole sits under a huge baobab tree, watching his herd of cattle drink from a dam in Ikolongo village - a place that until recently was a no-go area for pastoralists. The 56-year-old herder, his family and their 73 cattle, sheep and goats traveled several kilometers to reach the reservoir. I was very afraid to come here before because angry farmers were killing our animals, Nangole said, as dry leaves swirled around him. But now cattle can roam freely. Ikolongo is one of several villages...
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Tanzania Farmers, Pastoralists Launch Forum to Resolve Water Conflicts
2016-03-03 07:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: At a remote village of Itunundu in Iringa, farmers and pastoralists recently met to discuss the best way to share land resources while charting out a strategy to prevent unnecessary fights among themselves. No one in the village ever imagined that this meeting would ever take place as the two groups had for long considered themselves enemies: they often clashed for water and pastures to feed their animals thus causing deaths and loss of property. But the real story of that rare occasion was that...
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Middle East conflicts coming into play in Paris
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: You might think climate change negotiations have nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You'd be wrong. In this process, anything and everything can come into play -- and often does. Take today, when, according to negotiators in the room, blogger-flogging Saudi Arabia managed to get a reference to "human rights" deleted from a draft text. How? By linking it to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The language around human rights had been a hard-fought inclusion in a section of the...
Climate Change and Inequality Are Driving War and Catastrophic Conflicts from Syria to Africa
2015-12-03 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now: As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the U.N. Climate Summit in Paris, France, we examine the connection between a warming planet and increasing conflicts around the globe. If we want to deal with the issues of conflict, go to the root cause: inequality and climate change, says Asad Rehman, former national organizer of the Stop the War Coalition in the UK, who now serves as Head of International Climate for Friends of the Earth. He notes that from 2006 to 2011, Syria suffered from five years of the...
China and the US have a hotline to avoid military conflicts in space
2015-11-30 16:25:30| Extremetech
The US and China can now call each other directly to avoid emergencies in space -- and that's a very good thing for the world.