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Weeds & poor water quality can lead to herd health concerns
2016-07-07 01:02:57| Beef
Noxious weeds and poor water quality can lead to herd health issues; here's what you need to know to avoid troubles during the hot, dry summer grazing months. read more
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Plastic buckets, broken printers shine light on Hanoi's poor
2016-07-04 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Vietnamese families living in slums along the Red River in Hanoi are using red plastic buckets and old printers to help light homes, cook meals and slash electricity costs by as much as a third. The recycled goods form the blades and motors of electrical generators that power old motorcycle batteries to illuminate lamps with a brightness equivalent to a 45-Watt light bulb. Though the output generated is small, it makes a significant difference for families previously denied power because they...
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Pulling apart poor research linking alcohol consumption and cancer - International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research Critique 188
2016-06-28 14:04:46| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Previous scientific research has shown that heavy alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for upper aero-digestive cancers, and even light drinking increases slightly the risk of breast cancer in women. A recent study is based on a very small number of cases of cancer in New Zealand, tabulated separately for Maori and non-Maori subjects. The research applies estimates of alcohol effects from other population-based studies.
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Poor Children Are Twice As Likely To Die Before 5th Birthday Than Rich: UN
2016-06-28 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young children will die mostly preventable deaths by 2030 if global poverty is not addressed, UNICEF said in a bleak report issued on Tuesday. Poor children are twice as likely as rich children to die before age 5, and poor girls are more than twice as likely to become child brides in signs of troubling inequality, said the annual report by the United Nations' children's agency....
Bangladesh river eats up land and homes, trapping poor villagers
2016-06-22 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Piyara Begum once had a happy life in Garuhara village by the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh, but worsening erosion of the river banks has displaced her family seven times. Now Piyara, 30, has taken shelter in Panchgachi village, 8 kilometers away in the same sub-district of Kurigram Sadar. I am always concerned about where Piyara and her three children are living, and how she manages her family expenses, as she has lost everything due to erosion, said her uncle, Abdul Majid, who...
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