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El Nio could leave 4 million people in Pacific without food or drinking water
2015-10-11 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two dozen people have already died from hunger and drinking contaminated water in drought-stricken Papua New Guinea, but the looming El Nio crisis could leave more than four million people across the Pacific without enough food or clean water. The El Nio weather pattern when waters in the eastern tropical Pacific ocean become warmer, driving extreme weather conditions may be as severe as in 1997-98, when an estimated 23,000 people died, forecasters believe. In Papua New Guineas Chimbu...
Climate change could displace half a million people from islands
2015-10-06 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Residents of the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific know they have it bad. Flooding is on the rise and many face the real possibility that their island homes will disappear by the end of the century. Now, a new study projects things could even be worse than previously thought for low-lying island atolls around the world, which are home to half a million people and also host several key U.S. military installations. Studying the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, scientists from the U.S. Geological...
60 million people in sub-Saharan Africa risk famine: Red Cross
2015-10-06 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: IFRC warned that a series of climatic shocks in 2014 and 2015 had decimated harvests and left many people in Gambia, Mauritania, Malawi, Namibia, Senegal and Zimbabwe dependent on food aid to survive Some 60 million people across sub-Saharan Africa are already going hungry and the situation could deteriorate dramatically as climate phenomena hike the risk of drought, the Red Cross said Monday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned that a series of climatic...
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More Than a Million People Are Getting Free Flights - and They Hate It
2015-07-15 20:43:39| Airlines - Topix.net
Packed planes make it harder than ever for current and former airline employees to use one of corporate America's biggest fringe benefits At the end of her Caribbean honeymoon, Sara Nelson planned a two-day jaunt-all the way to London. But the flight attendant and her husband ended up in Paris, opting for sightseeing instead of theater.
Yemen conflict has put six million people at risk of severe food insecurity
2015-06-19 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
A new joint-study by two United Nations (UN) organisations has revealed that close to six million people are at risk of moving towards severe hunger and will need emergency food and life-saving assistance as a result of the ongoing conflict.