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El Nio leaves 100 million people short of food and water worldwide
2016-02-17 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Severe droughts and floods triggered by one of the strongest El Nio weather events ever recorded have left nearly 100 million people in southern Africa, Asia and Latin America facing food and water shortages and vulnerable to diseases including Zika, UN bodies, international aid agencies and governments have said. New figures from the UNs World Food Programme say 40 million people in rural areas and 9 million in urban centres who live in the drought-affected parts of Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South...
Four Billion People Suffer From Severe Water Scarcity World Wide
2016-02-16 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Nearly 66 percent of the world's human population suffers from insufficient access to fresh water for at least one month out of the year. This estimate, which equates to about four billion people, is far greater than scientists thought. Previously it was believed that that between 1.7 and 3.1 billion people lived with moderate to severe water scarcity for at least one month of year. However, in the latest study, led by Dr. Arjen Hoekstra of the Netherlands' University of Twente, researchers used...
Four billion people affected by severe water scarcity
2016-02-15 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: There are four billion people worldwide who are affected by severe water scarcity for at least one month a year. That is the conclusion of University of Twente Professor of Water Management, Arjen Hoekstra, after many years' extensive research. This alarming figure is much higher than was previously thought. His ground-breaking research was published in Science Advances. Professor Hoekstra's team is the first research group in the world to identify people's water footprint from month to month and...
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VIDEO: EasyJet boss: 'Get to know people'
2016-02-15 07:29:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
EasyJet boss Carolyn McCall offers the business advice she wishes she'd been given when she started out, as part of the BBC News series, CEO Secrets.
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Geospatial data for the people, by the people
2016-02-06 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: How do you motivate people to learn and care about their environments? Researchers in various scientific fields have begun involving interested people in collecting data on the ground, verifying data online, and contacting authorities and each other to act on existing data. Connecting those data to human health impacts may engage the public even more. The goal of SkyTruth is to motivate people to use satellite imagery, geospatial data, and digital mapping tools to personally investigate whats happeninggood...
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