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Deadly cholera outbreaks could increase with climate change
2014-12-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: Increasingly severe heat waves and more frequent and intense flooding due to climate change will spur the spread of cholera in vulnerable regions of the world, new research suggests. In an effort to better understand the environmental conditions that cause deadly cholera outbreaks and to be able to predict them in the future, researchers based at the University of Maryland compiled more than 40 years of cholera studies to compare weather and groundwater conditions to patterns of outbreaks. Based...
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Sustainability in Wine - Part IV: England and the Climate Change Dividend
2014-12-18 11:11:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
In the final part of his look at sustainability in the wine sector, Ben Cooper heads to England to look at the country's wine production growth prospects. Could the company be an indirect benefactor of climate change?
Front Yards Turn to Wetlands as Climate Change Takes Toll
2014-12-18 06:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Climate change is beginning to take a toll on real estate in Norfolk, about 80 miles southeast of Richmond, as insurance costs soar and residents resort to putting their homes on stilts or opening up space underneath for the water to flow through. Amanda Armstrong schedules her life around the tides. For the past year and a half, shes had to navigate rising waters that saturate the lawn of her red brick house in Norfolk, Virginia, and sometimes fill a puddle out front with crabs and fish. We...
Sustainability in Wine - Part II: Adapting to Change
2014-12-17 12:21:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Part two of Ben Cooper's look at sustainability in the wine sector considers the adaptability of wine and the risks the category faces going forward.
Remote Alaskan town is the canary in the US climate change coal mine
2014-12-17 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inhabit: The town of Shishmaref, Alaska lies on an island 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle and next to the Chukchi Sea. Its residents, Native Alaskan Inupiaq people, can really see Russia from their house! However, the rapidly changing climate, which is changing faster in Alaska than anywhere else in the nation, is keeping the Chukchi Sea from freezing as early as it used to leaving the shoreline exposed to fall and winter storms. It`s also melting the permafrost upon which the town`s nearly 600 residents...
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