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United Kingdom: Food experts warn it could be farewell to the land of plenty

2014-07-04 20:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Telegraph: Ours is the first generation than can largely take plentiful, cheap food for granted. Now, report after report is suggesting it may also be the last. Two days ago, a Ministry of Defence study of "global strategic trends' raised the spectre of global demand outstripping supply over the next 30 years. And two days earlier, a Commons committee warned that Britain's own food security is imperilled. Prices have been rising twice as fast as general inflation and appear to be accelerating. The MoD...

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Water supply key to outcome of conflicts in Iraq & Syria, experts warn

2014-07-02 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Gurdian: The outcome of the Iraq and Syrian conflicts may rest on who controls the regions dwindling water supplies, say security analysts in London and Baghdad. Rivers, canals, dams, sewage and desalination plants are now all military targets in the semi-arid region that regularly experiences extreme water shortages, says Michael Stephen, deputy director of the Royal United Services Institute thinktank in Qatar, speaking from Baghdad. Control of water supplies gives strategic control over both cities...

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UK future food security threatened complacency, MPs warn

2014-07-01 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The UKs ability to feed itself is threatened by complacency over the extreme weather driven by climate change and increasing competition for food as the worlds population grows, MPs warned on Tuesday. The environment, food and rural affairs (Efra) select committee said ministers must put plans in place to secure supplies of fruit and vegetables and the soya needed to feed the nations dairy herds, noting that the UKs self-sufficiency for food that can be grown domestically has fallen from...

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Argentine sea experts warn climate change consequences

2014-06-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Buenos Aires Herald: An Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission ex-chairman says nearly half of Buenos Aires province could eventually be flooded if seas continue to grow The increasing global warming is melting the planet's ice and the subsequent rise of sea levels may flood nearly half of the province of Buenos Aires, and even cause some insular states to disappear, a leading international expert from Argentina warns. "I don't want to frighten anyone but nearly half of Buenos Aires province may remain under...

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