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The World's Biggest Jeans-Maker Is Having An Identity Crisis
2014-07-13 22:42:33| Apparel - Topix.net
Protesters catch clothing thrown out of a clothing store by their colleagues during a general strike in central Barcelona September 29, 2010.
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Heartland Water Crisis: Why the Planet Depends on These Kansas Farmers
2014-07-13 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: In Americas Breadbasket, a battle of ideas is underway on the most fundamental topics of all: food, water, and the future of the planet. Last August, in a still-echoing blockbuster study, Dave Steward, Ph.D., and his colleagues at Kansas State University, informed the $15 billion Kansas agricultural economy that it was on a fast track to oblivion. The reason: The precipitous, calamitous withdrawal rates of the Ogallala Aquifer. The Ogallala is little known outside this part of the world, but its...
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South Australia faces water crisis by end century due climate change
2014-07-13 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A predicted 40% decline in rainfall in southern Australia could mean that the West Australian capital, Perth, will have to rely on alternative sources of water in future, a new climate change research paper warns. The study, led by an academic at the USs National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, examined the causes of rainfall decline in southern Australia over the past few decades and concluded that human activity was a significant contributor. The findings, published in the journal...
US struggles to resolve Afghan election crisis
2014-07-12 17:35:47| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
John Seigenthaler, the journalist who edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the Kennedy administration, died Friday at his Nashville home at age 86, his son said.
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El Nio Triggers Drought, Food Crisis in Nicaragua
2014-07-10 19:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The spectre of famine is haunting Nicaragua. The second poorest country in Latin America, and one of the 10 most vulnerable to climate change in the world, is facing a meteorological phenomenon that threatens its food security. Scientists at the Nicaraguan Institute for Territorial Studies (INETER) say the situation is correlated with the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a weather cycle that periodically causes drought on the western Pacific seaboard and the centre of the country, in contrast...
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