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Middle East drought a threat to global food prices
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Middle East's driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers' livelihoods blighted, U.N. experts and climatologists say. Varying degrees of drought are hitting almost two thirds of the limited arable land across Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Palestinian territories and Iraq. "Going back to the last 100 years, I don't think you can get a five-year span that's been as dry," said Mohammad Raafi Hossain, a U.N. Food and Agriculture...
Why global water shortages pose threat terror & war
2014-02-09 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: On 17 January, scientists downloaded fresh data from a pair of Nasa satellites and distributed the findings among the small group of researchers who track the world's water reserves. At the University of California, Irvine, hydrologist James Famiglietti looked over the data from the gravity-sensing Grace satellites with a rising sense of dread. The data, released last week, showed California on the verge of an epic drought, with its backup systems of groundwater reserves so run down that the losses...
Global food supply under threat as water wells dry up, analyst warns
2013-07-06 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Wells are drying up and underwater tables falling so fast in the Middle East and parts of India, China and the US that food supplies are seriously threatened, one of the world's leading resource analysts has warned. In a major new essay Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, claims that 18 countries, together containing half the world's people, are now overpumping their underground water tables to the point known as "peak water" where they are not replenishing and...
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Global Reports Underline Rising Threat to Planets Bird Species
2013-06-20 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: New global research underlines the rising threats facing the worlds bird species, with three reports providing evidence that climate change, overfishing, and unsustainable agriculture are taking a heavy toll on avian populations worldwide. In a bulletin released earlier this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reported that numbers of some migratory bird populations along the Maine coast including Arctic terns and puffins have plummeted in recent years because their food supplies...
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Obama calls climate change the 'global threat of our time' is Berlin address
2013-06-19 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Hill: President Obama on Wednesday called climate change the global threat of our time" in a speech in Berlin. Amid signs the White House is getting ready to unveil new executive-level steps to curb greenhouse gases, Obama linked fighting climate change to peace and justice while calling for bold action. Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet," he said in a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. "The effort to slow climate change requires bold action....
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