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CHILE: CCU "not pleased" with Q1 as profits flat-line on rising sales
2014-05-07 18:13:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
CCU has voiced its discontent with first-quarter figures that show profits stagnating
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Rising CO2 Levels Find New Ways To Kill You: Lowering The Amount of Nutrients In Our Food
2014-05-07 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: If we don't intervene, greenhouse gases may significantly reduce the amount of zinc and iron in crops around the world. Add one more consequence to the ever-growing list of climate-change repercussions: a threat to human nutrition. In a study released today in Nature, researchers reveal that rising CO2 levels are significantly reducing the amount of two critical dietary nutrients--iron and zinc--in crops. Some two billion people already have iron and zinc deficiencies, and now climate change could...
Rising carbon dioxide may compromise human nutrition, study says
2014-05-07 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: At the elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 anticipated by around 2050, crops that provide a large share of the global population with most of their dietary zinc and iron will have significantly reduced concentrations of those nutrients, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Given that an estimated two billion people suffer from zinc and iron deficiencies, resulting in a loss of 63 million life years annually from malnutrition, the reduction in these nutrients represents...
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Rising CO2 levels could reduce nutrition values of staple crops like wheat, rice and soy
2014-05-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Some of the worlds most important staple crops could be rendered less nutritious by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, scientists have said, leading to a rise in dietary deficiencies already responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. Crops such as wheat, rice and soybeans were all found to have decreased concentrations of iron and zinc when exposed to the higher levels of CO2. Experts said that the effect, which has been observed before but never conclusively proven...
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Call to control rising house prices
2014-05-06 13:16:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK government should consider more restrictions on the Help to Buy scheme as house prices continue to rise, the OECD says.
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