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Peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict
2015-05-09 05:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The civil war in Syria has been devastating, generating a death toll fast approaching 100,000, while uprooting millions of civilians from their homes. But as the US and Russia signed an unprecedented accord on Wednesday in search of a political solution to an increasingly intractable conflict, its underlying causes in a fatal convergence of energy, climate and economic factors remain little understood. The UN high commissioner for human rights has offered a conservative under-estimate of the death...
FAO Boosts Animal Disease Control, Food Security in Response to Syria Crisis
2015-03-20 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
MIDDLE EAST - The FAO is scaling up its support to Jordan and other countries in the region affected by the humanitarian crisis in Syria that has entered its fifth year.
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2015-03-12 05:21:58| IT Services - Topix.net
The world is "not even close to grasping the magnitude" of the humanitarian crisis in Syria, an aid chief said ahead of the fourth anniversary of the peaceful protests that marked the start of the devastating conflict. "We may live with the aftermath of the Syrian conflict for generations," Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council , told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Syria war drought link
2015-03-08 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The conflict that has torn Syria apart can be traced, in part, to a record drought worsened by global warming, a new study says. In what scientists say is one of the most detailed and strongest connections between violence and human-caused climate change, researchers from Columbia University and the University of California Santa Barbara trace the effects of Syrias drought from the collapse of farming, to the migration of 1.5 million farmers to the cities, and then to poverty and civil unrest....
Climate Change Caused the War in Syria?
2015-03-03 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Wars are usually caused by struggles for land or power, but one new study is blaming climate change, at least in part, for the start of the Syrian war. A nationwide drought, the worst Syria has ever seen, ravaged the region from 2006-2010, destroying the agricultural industry and driving farmers to poverty-stricken cities. Coincidentally, in spring 2011, unrest escalated into a full-blown Syrian war that has since killed at least 200,000 people and displaced millions. "We're not saying the...
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