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World food security at risk as crop yields plateau
2013-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For the last decade and a half, a mysterious and worrisome trend has emerged in the farming world that has sent farmers, scientists and policy makers looking for answers. Crop yields -- how much of a crop is harvested per hectare -- for some of the world's major grains like rice, wheat and corn have gone from increasing year after year to plateauing in many of the world's biggest grain producers. Until about the middle of the 20th century, the only way farmers knew to increase production...
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Data Integrity & Manufacturing - Detecting & Mitigating Risk
2013-11-19 11:05:39| drugdiscoveryonline News Articles
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Storm puts 53 million people at risk in Midwest
2013-11-17 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fast-moving storm system that produced at least one tornado in Illinois threatened some 53 million people across 10 Midwestern states on Sunday, U.S. weather officials said. "A confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado" was spotted near Washington, Illinois, located about 145 miles southwest of Chicago, the National Weather Service said. Photos taken at the scene showed structures were reduced to rubble and houses ripped open in Washington, Illinois. "There is a lot of debris," Sara...
$900m risk in Caribbean from rising sea levels
2013-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tribune: RISING sea levels could cause the tourism industry to lose almost $900 million a year by 2050, says a research group. Sea rise, surge or erosion could cause as much as 1,200 square miles of Caribbean coastal land to be lost along with damage or destruction of half of the major tourist resorts. A report by the Inter-American Development Bank titled Climate Changes Impact on the Caribbeans Ability to Sustain Tourism, Natural Assets, and Livelihoods forecasts the destruction unless Caribbean...
International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research Critique 128: Little Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Breast Cancer Risk Found among African-American Women
2013-11-16 15:52:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Alcohol is known to be a risk factor for breast cancer in Caucasian women, but the evidence in African-American (AA) women is limited and results from previous studies are inconclusive.
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