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Climate change threatening Philippines's food security
2016-03-27 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philippine Star: Climate change as manifested by the destructive El Nio and La Nia phenomena is threatening the countrys food security, an official of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has warned. Speaking before the joint House special committees on food security and climate change recently, Thelma Cinco, head of the impact assessment and applications section of PAGASA, said the dry and wet spells brought about by El Nio and La Nia would greatly and...
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Climate change threatening polar bear population, group says
2016-02-27 17:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: The polar bear needs your help. Today is International Polar Bear Day, and it was started back in 2011 to celebrate and protect one of the world's largest and most threatened land predators. Polar Bears International began the observation and says the massive bears are threatened by climate change. Polar bears are found in arctic regions, including Alaska, Canada and Russia. Annually, sea ice around the North Pole is in decline, affecting quality of life for the polar bear. Polar Bears International...
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With haze threatening return, Indonesian forestry giant pushes peatlands restoration model
2016-02-04 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last year some two million hectares of land in Indonesia went up in flames across Sumatra, Borneo, and the Western half of New Guinea. The conflagrations caused choking air pollution, hospitalizing hundreds of thousands of people and further denting regional economies already hard hit by the downturn in commodity prices. Daily carbon emissions from the fires during the height of the crisis were higher than the daily emissions from the entire U.S. economy. Most of the haze was caused by fires burning...
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Short Woolworths: Competition Threatening Oligopoly And Earnings; It Is Getting Ugly
2016-01-21 14:40:44| Grocery - Topix.net
Every market day, we select up to 20 of our authors' top long and short ideas, exclusively for PRO subscribers. In Australia, Woolworths and Coles control approximately 70% of the market and have long dominated grocery retailing.
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Mass bee die-offs are threatening nearly half of U.S. crops
2016-01-10 05:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Week: We know bees are in decline and we know that losing pollinators is bad for crops. But until recently, the finer points remained a mystery. "It's clear that pollinators are in trouble," said Taylor Ricketts, biologist at the University of Vermont and coauthor of the study, in a prepared statement. "But what's been less clear is where they are in the most trouble -- and where their decline will have the most consequence for farms and food." Even the White House acknowledged the dearth of information....
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