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Population growth greatly affecting access to safe water in Uganda
2013-03-22 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Vision: Eight months ago, Uganda's population was estimated at 34.1 million people. Out of this, 5.01 million live in urban areas while 29.9 million, which is 85.3%, reside in rural areas. Which means more than three quarters of Ugandans live in rural areas. According to Water Aid Uganda, 9.3 million people in Uganda do not have access to safe water. Around 26,000 children die every year from diarrhoea which is caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation in Uganda. Without access to water, many farmers...
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Climate Change Affecting Polar Bears, Only Those With The Most Fat Thrive
2013-03-20 21:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Recent climate induced changes to Arctic polar bears environment is affecting their habits and ability to survive, with the bears having to rely more and more on internal fat reserves, according to a new paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The bears are having particular difficulty adjusting to the shifting sea ice dynamics. In the past, sea ice has remained throughout the Arctic summer months, but now it is almost completely melting and refreezing each year. "This poses an interesting...
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Climate change affecting growing seasons
2013-03-11 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: Growing seasons in Earth's northern latitudes are shifting and vegetation increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, scientists say. With climate change, temperatures and vegetation in northern latitudes resemble those found 4 degrees to 6 degrees of latitude farther south as recently as 1982, they said. NASA scientists along with U.S. and international researchers analyzed the relationship between changes in surface temperature and vegetation growth from 45 degrees north latitude...
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Liberia: Burned Buildings Affecting Harper's Beauty
2013-03-06 17:11:15| Agriculture - Topix.net
Harper City, the official seat of Maryland County believed to be one of the best laid out cities in Liberia, with well architecturally designed buildings is facing the challenge of many dilapidated buildings, which are affecting the beauty of the city.
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2012 Drought Affecting 2013 Food Prices
2013-01-30 22:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
A USDA economist says the persistent drought in the Midwest will lead to higher-than-normal food price inflation for the rest of the year. Ricky Volpe, USDA Economic Research Service, says, "It had substantial and devastating impacts on the major field crops of the American Midwest. The most important field crop there is field corn. Now, people dont eat field corn directly, but its processed into animal feed and thats a major input to the U.S. food supply chain so were seeing input costs rise for all the meat products and then all of these animal based products that consumers buy regularly. Were looking at inflation on the order of about three to four percent for beef and veal, pork, poultry, eggs and even a little bit higher for dairy. LimelightPlayerUtil.initEmbed("limelight_player_452471"); read more
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