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Ebola Threatens Global Food Security
2014-10-14 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - FAO has launched a new programme to urgently assist 90,000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola epidemic is having on rural economies, agricultural activities and markets.
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Pentagon Signals Security Risks Climate Change
2014-10-14 01:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises. The report lays out a road map to show how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms and widespread droughts. The Defense Department...
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Pentagon: Climate change 'immediate' national security risk
2014-10-13 23:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Rising global temperatures, rapidly melting arctic ice and other effects of climate change are posing immediate risks to US national security and military and humanitarian operations, the Pentagon warned Monday. In a comprehensive report billed as a roadmap for adapting to climate change, the Defense Department said it has begun to boost its "resilience" and ensure mission readiness is not compromised in the face of rising sea levels, increasing regularity of natural disasters, and food and water...
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Pentagon: Climate change a national security threat
2014-10-13 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: The Pentagon is integrating climate change threats into all of its "plans, operations, and training" across the entire Defense Department, signaling a comprehensive attempt to tackle the impacts of global warming. In a 20-page Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap released on Monday, the Pentagon details its strategic blueprint to address climate change, calling it a "threat multiplier" that has the power to "exacerbate" many of the challenges the U.S. faces today, including "infectious diseases and...
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Personal Finance: Social Security do-over?
2014-10-11 17:07:00| Trucking - Topix.net
Personal Finance: Can I get a Social Security do-over? Veteran personal finance journalist Robert Powell answers your questions for USA WEEKEND. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1xytFje I started collecting Social Security at 62. That was January of this year.
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