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One in ten people fall ill due to foodborne diseases every year, WHO report
2015-12-07 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
One in every ten people across the world fall sick due to foodborne diseases every year, the World Health Organization stated in its report, titled 'Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases'.
The richest 10% of people generate half the worlds carbon emissions
2015-12-05 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: Central to the global climate talks currently underway in Paris is the concept of fairness. Most world leaders agree on the goal to limit future global warming to below 2ºC, but there are serious disagreements about who should bear the burden. Poorer countries argue that they haven't yet gained the same benefits as rich countries from burning carbon in the past. Rich countries say that everyone has a responsibility to cut emissions in order for future targets to be met. Now, a new report...
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On forests, UN & indigenous people are worlds apart
2015-12-02 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: On the cold tarmac of the UN tent city, indigenous dress clashed with a blur of business attire as Amazonian Indians milled around a mock Eiffel Tower. With facial markings and feather headdresses, these were some of the few to gain accreditation to a climate summit on Paris` heavily-policed margins. They had travelled thousands of miles to have their voices heard. Negotiators from 195 nations are grappling to clinch a new global climate agreement by the end of next week. But the COP21,...
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'More Wildlife Than People'
2015-11-29 10:46:56| Real Estate - Topix.net
East Nantmeal, a township of 1,858 people scattered over 16.4 square miles, is lumped into the Chester Springs zip code, 19425, with fellow Chester County communities West Pikeland, Upper Uwchlan, Wallace, and West Vincent Townships. Two years ago, a visit to Chester Springs and its component parts found, as in many other areas of the Philadelphia region, a housing market on what real estate agents were calling "the comeback trail."
People power: New utilities may offer greener energy for less green
2015-11-29 06:35:04| Energy - Topix.net
From Silicon Valley to the East Bay to the Central Coast, a “people's power” movement is sweeping through California that will give local residents a choice to ditch PG&E and buy cleaner - and possibly cheaper - energy from the cities and counties where they live. To its proponents, the idea is a no-brainer.
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