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Starving from Food Waste
2014-09-18 17:32:00| Waste Age
With September being Hunger Action Month, its a good time to refocus on the paradox that food waste continues to be in our food supply chain. read more
Ozone pollution in India kills crops that could feed starving population
2014-09-10 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In one year, India's ozone pollution damaged millions of tons of the country's major crops, causing losses of more than a billion dollars and destroying enough food to feed tens of millions of people living below the poverty line. These are findings of a new study that looked at the agricultural effects in 2005 of high concentrations of ground-level ozone, a plant-damaging pollutant formed by emissions from vehicles, cooking stoves and other sources. Able to acquire accurate crop production data...
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Portland First City In U.S. To Feed Starving Artists (And Their Cats)
2013-12-04 20:21:40| PortlandOnline
On Prugent.com, December 2, 2013
Blind, starving cheetahs: the new symbol of climate change?
2013-06-21 12:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The world's fastest land animal is in trouble. The cheetah, formerly found across much of Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, has been extirpated from at least 27 countries and is now on the Red List of threatened species. Namibia holds by far the largest remaining population of the speedy cat. Between 3,500 and 5,000 cheetahs roam national parks, communal rangelands and private commercial ranches of this vast, arid country in south-western Africa, where they face threats like gun-toting...
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Biologists worried by starving migratory birds, seen as tied to climate change
2013-06-20 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: At the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, the tiny bodies of Arctic tern chicks have piled up. Over the past few years, biologists have counted thousands that starved to death because the herring their parents feed them have vanished. Puffins are also having trouble feeding their chicks, which weigh less than previous broods. When the parents leave the chicks to fend for themselves, the young birds are failing to find food, and hundreds are washing up dead on the Atlantic coast. ...