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Cotton Prices Boosted by Poor Weather (Weekly Report)

2013-09-30 13:36:05| EmergingTextiles.com

Cotton prices last week rebounded, over weather worries and a consecutively lower level than expected in global production in the new season. Our weekly cotton report covers the latest price trends of international spot and futures markets through a large number of tables and charts, with also domestic markets in India, China and Pakistan being reviewed. Historical data back to 6 years are available for download.

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Working poor hit hard by Colorado flooding

2013-09-27 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Victoria Varela shook her head in disbelief as she surveyed the wreckage of the trailer she had fled minutes before flood waters rushed through her mobile home park in the hardscrabble town of Evans, Colorado destroying everything in its path. "We didn't think it would be so bad, so I just grabbed some of the kids' clothes and left, but it turns out everything in there is ruined," the mother of four said, as her husband Jesus pulled mud-encased items from inside their home. The Valeras are among...

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Climate change will hit poor countries hardest, study shows

2013-09-27 10:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Low-income countries will remain on the frontline of human-induced climate change over the next century, experiencing gradual sea-level rises, stronger cyclones, warmer days and nights, more unpredictable rains, and larger and longer heatwaves, according to the most thorough assessment of the issue yet. The last major UN assessment, in 2007, predicted runaway temperature rises of 6C or more by the end of the century. That is now thought unlikely by scientists, but average land and sea temperatures...

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Americans wasting huge amounts food through poor date labelling

2013-09-25 10:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: Misunderstood sell-by dates on food are leading to phenomenal amounts of food waste, according to a new report that highlights a lack of federal regulation for food labelling as a key problem. The report, called "The Dating Game", was produced by the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic. It says that 40 per cent of the food produced in the US is never eaten, while $165bn of food is thrown away annually, most of which is edible. Misunderstood food date...

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