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Worsening Water Scarcity to Affect 2 Billion Globally
2013-09-21 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Water scarcity is a fact of life in many parts of the world, particularly in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. A new study says the situation could get a lot worse, with climate change resulting in less rain and more evaporation in many areas. Warming will expose 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity -- that's in addition to the 1.3 billion people already at present living in water-scarce regions. Credit: Nourishing the Planet The study, led by researchers at the...
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New colour purple depicts worsening climate risks in U.N. draft report
2013-09-13 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some parts of nature and human society are more vulnerable than expected to climate change, according to a draft of a U.N. report that adds a new purple colour to a key diagram to show worsening risks beyond the red used so far. It says "unique and threatened systems" like coral reefs, endangered animals and plants, Arctic indigenous communities, tropical glaciers or small island states seem be less able to adapt to warming than believed in a last report in 2007. The 44-page draft Summary for...
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Tar balls from wildfires worsening global warming
2013-07-10 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: We`ve discussed at length how global warming can make wildfires worse. But here`s some more bad news: New research suggests that the fires themselves could be worsening global warming. Forest fires release carbon from burned trees and leaves into the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is released as carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas. But a lot of it is spewed into the air as soot and clumps of black carbon known as tar balls. Soot doesn`t necessarily warm the globe - some if it can actually...
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EGYPT: Garment exporters positive amid worsening unrest
2013-07-09 14:49:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Egyptian garment exporters continue to reassure customers and traders that it is business as usual for the textile and clothing industry, despite an escalation in violence and a deepening economic crisis in the country.
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Top security official in Nigeria blames climate change for worsening insecurity
2013-04-25 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change is in part to blame for rising conflict and crime in Nigeria, according to the president's National Security Advisor, Colonel Sambo Dasuki. Speaking to the House Committee on Climate Change, Dasuki said that the rise of Boko Haram insurgents, a jihadist group in northern Nigeria, and worsening crime was linked to climate change reports All Africa. According to Dasuki, worsening desertification, rising sea levels in the Niger Delta, and the shrinking of Lake Chad have pushed young...
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