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Climate Change Could Delay The Fight Against World Hunger For Decades: Report
2014-03-25 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Coffee, almonds and apples are just a few foods whose continued production is under threat due to climate change. But the implications of a changing climate have a much broader impact on global food supply, according to a new report. The new report, which Oxfam released Monday, warns that climate change threatens to delay the fight against world hunger for decades. The threat of climate change on food is much worse than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated in their last report...
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Climate change is going to turn the Earth into a planet of hungry kids
2014-03-25 12:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Talk of climate change-induced disasters probably brings to mind Pacific islands disappearing into the ocean, powerful storm surges, overwhelming floods, and raging wildfires. But some of the impacts - stemming in part from some of these same phenomena - will be more prosaic, but just as deadly. Take food. A report released Monday evening by Oxfam America, an anti-poverty organization, finds that, food prices could double by 2030, with half of this rise driven by climate change. The result?...
Climate change: Too much rain caused deadly mudslide on unstable ground
2014-03-25 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Authorities confirm 14 dead and 176 missing on Monday from the massive landslide that rolled through the rural neighborhood of Oso/Darrington north of Seattle on Saturday covering a square-mile area with mud and mangled trees as it laid waste to 50 structures. Experts say the cause of the landslide, which wasnt the first in the area, appears to be ground saturation after receiving double the normal rainfall for March, the sixth-wettest recorded since 1922, as explained by Johnny Burg, a meteorologist...
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Scientists to climate change skeptics: Get real
2014-03-25 03:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS News: Much of the extreme weather that wreaked havoc in Asia, Europe and the Pacific region last year can be blamed on human-induced climate change, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The U.N. weather agency's annual assessment Monday said 2013 was the sixth-warmest year on record. Thirteen of the 14 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Rising sea levels has led to increasing damage from storm surges and coastal flooding, as demonstrated by Typhoon Haiyan, the agency's...
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Climate change could devastate Africa crop yields - Responding to Climate Change
2014-03-25 02:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Africa could face an onslaught of crop failures, diseases and extreme weather events as a result of global warming, a UN panel of scientists is likely to warn later this week. The findings will be discussed at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Yokohoma, Japan, before their final approval and publication on March 31. Millions could be affected as a result of coastal and urban flooding, while fresh water resources in the west and south are expected to become...
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