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El Nio and fighting leave 80 million in food crisis
2016-05-23 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Armed conflict and the droughts caused by the El Nio effect have left 80 million people around the world in acute food crisis this year, reveals a food security report. The report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme adds that a total of 240 million people are in food stress. This corresponds to level two on a five-level international classification of food insecurity; food crisis is level three and famine is level five....
EU to Give More Money to Combat El Nio Food Security Issues
2016-04-28 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - €414 million of new money from the EU is going to support those countries most affected by the current food security crisis caused by El Niño and other factors.
El Nio Upsets Seasons, and Upends Lives, Worldwide
2016-03-19 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: In rural villages in Africa and Asia, and in urban neighborhoods in South America, millions of lives have been disrupted by weather linked to the strongest El Nio in a generation. In some parts of the world, the problem has been not enough rain; in others, too much. Downpours were so bad in Paraguays capital, Asunción, that shantytowns sprouted along city streets, filled with families displaced by floods. But farmers in India had the opposite problem: Reduced monsoon rains forced them off the...
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El Nio pummels coast in preview of warmer world
2016-02-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Greenwire: This winter's El Nio has brought warm temperatures and big waves to this coastal college town, where surfing is a favorite pastime. But it's also gobbling up cliffs under student housing at an alarmingly fast rate. California has been counting on El Nio to quench its historic, four-year drought. But drought-busting storms have yet to fully materialize, and researchers say El Nio may do more to hurt the state than help by ravaging beaches, cliffs and bluffs. That effect has been on full...
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El Nio Continues to Impact 2016 Weather Patterns
2016-02-24 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ANALYSIS - A two-year El Niño event has bad a strong influence on world weather, according to Art Douglas, PhD, Professor Emeritus at Creighton University, who recently presented the annual weather forecast at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) meeting, where he projected moisture conditions in the US to continue through the summer.
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