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Asia worst offender in global modern slavery rankings
2016-06-03 14:12:04| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Asia has an estimated two-thirds of the total number of people in modern slavery globally, a new report has found, with Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, India and China accounting for nearly 60%.
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Cambodia takes solace from plow ceremony amid worst drought 50 years
2016-05-24 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As the worst drought in half a century delays rice planting in Cambodia, a pair of oxen on Tuesday delved into rice, corn and bean bowls at an annual plowing ceremony in an omen for good harvests for those crops in the year ahead. Annual rains have come late to Cambodia, exacerbating the drought and forcing farmers to wait before planting this year's crop of rice. Exports of Asia's staple are expected to fall well short of the 530,000 tonnes shipped in 2015, further exacerbating a tightening...
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Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million
2016-05-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Harvest should be the time for celebrations, weddings and full bellies in southern Malawi. But Christopher Witimani, Lilian Matafle and their seven children and four grandchildren had nothing to celebrate last week as they picked their meagre maize crop. Last years drought, followed by erratic rains, hit the village of Nkhotakota hard. But this year the rains never came and, for a second year running, the family grain store is empty. If they manage their savings carefully and eat just one small...
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How southern Africa is coping with worst global food crisis for 25 years
2016-05-22 11:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Angola Drought is affecting 1.4 million people across seven of Angolas 18 provinces. Food prices have rocketed and acute malnutrition rates have doubled, with more than 95,000 children affected. Food insecurity is expected to worsen from July to the end of the year. Related: Where drought is the new normal: El Nio worsens food shortages in Malawi and Zimbabwe podcast Botswana Three years of drought have hit the countrys livestock and arable farming sectors hard. At least 50,000 people...
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Noam Chomsky: Climate Change and Nuclear Proliferation Pose Worst Threat Ever Faced by Humans
2016-05-16 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: President Obama has just passed a little-noticed milestone, according to The New York Times: Obama has now been at war longer than any president in U.S. history--longer than George W. Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Obama has taken military action in at least seven countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Just last month, President Obama announced the deployment of 250 more Special Operations troops to Syria in a move that nearly doubles the official...
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