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US: Browning recalls junior hoodies over strangulation risk
2013-12-20 12:38:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Around 4,300 Browning junior hoodies have been recalled because the drawstrings around the neck pose a strangulation or an entanglement hazard to young children.
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West Africa Hopes New Hydropower Dams Will Cut Poverty, Climate Risk
2013-12-18 10:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: West African states in the Niger River Basin are seeking to tackle climate risks and reduce poverty by constructing three hydropower dams in the next five years. In late November, the Council of Ministers of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA), meeting in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, endorsed an environmental and climate action plan for sustainable management of the scenic basin and its rich natural resources, which have come under threat from climate change. The projects include a 102 megawatt (MW)...
Kakadu mine: risk of uranium leakage could be greater than thought
2013-12-18 08:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The risk of uranium leakage from filtration systems used by facilities such as the Ranger mine in Kakadu could be greater than is currently acknowledged, with new research showing that the hazardous substance is far more mobile than previously thought. A study published in Nature Communications found that seemingly immobile uranium particles "piggybacked' onto iron and organic material and flowed into a stream that joined a wetland in France. The Australian Conservation Foundation said the...
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Climate change puts 40% more people at risk of absolute water scarcity, study says
2013-12-17 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Water scarcity impacts people's lives in many countries already today. Future population growth will increase the demand for freshwater even further. Yet in addition to this, on the supply side, water resources will be affected by projected changes in rainfall and evaporation. Climate change due to unabated greenhouse-gas emissions within our century is likely to put 40 percent more people at risk of absolute water scarcity than would be without climate change, a new study shows by using an unprecedented...
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'Whole world at risk' from simultaneous droughts, famines, epidemics: scientists
2013-12-17 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An international scientific research project known as the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI-MIP), run by 30 teams from 12 countries, has attempted to understand the severity and scale of global impacts of climate change. The project compares model projections on water scarcity, crop yields, disease, floods among other issues to see how they could interact. The series of papers published by the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that policymakers...
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