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Military chiefs told to prepare for new threats to UK security
2013-07-08 16:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Slowly, very slowly, military planners are putting their minds to the kind of conflict in which British soldiers will be asked to intervene in future. A war-weary British public might not care to contemplate such prospects after a decade of Iraq and Afghanistan. But if the country is going to have an army, albeit a much smaller one, it should be relevant, properly equipped for the kind of conflict it is likely to be engaged in, and trained. Significantly, much of the latest annual conference...
Most Android security threats would be blocked if phones ran latest version
2013-06-26 16:11:40| InfoWorld: Top News
Over three quarters of Android threats are malicious apps that send SMS messages to premium rate numbers and could be mitigated by a protection feature present in Android 4.2, according to researchers from networking vendor Juniper Networks. However, because manufacturers and carriers fail to update Android end user devices in a timely fashion, only 4 percent of devices currently run Android 4.2, even though this version was released more than six months ago.
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North American Birds Declining as Threats Mount
2013-06-21 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Throughout the year, birders look forward to changing seasons and avian scenes as they explore woods, grasslands, and wetlands: the spectacle of spring migration, the songs of breeding birds, the autumn southward flight of wintering species from northern nesting grounds. Increasingly, though, both casual bird-watchers and ornithologists note a steady decline in numbersnot just of endangered species, but also of common birds not usually considered to be at risk. Study after study, survey after survey...
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Birds and Mammals Face New Threats from Global Population Growth
2013-06-19 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: As global population continues to grow, hundreds of species of birds and mammals will be threatened with extinction in the next four decades, according to new research. A recent United Nations report predicted world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050 and the latest research from The Ohio State University supplements prior studies that indicate an increasing human population density will impact already endangered species. The latest data link expanding human population to new threats of...
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World Bank: Developing economies face "alarming" climate threats
2013-06-19 11:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Just a day after G8 leaders declared that they had "grave concerns" about the slow progress in tackling climate change, the World Bank has published a major new report warning that many of the world's poorest nations face "alarming" climate risks over the coming decades that threaten to derail development efforts. The report, entitled Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience, follows a report late last year from the bank, which warned the world was on track...
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