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School dropout rate rising as drought boosts hunger in Zimbabwe
2015-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When Thabiso Dube isn't helping his mother at home, the scrawny 8-year-old is working alongside her, doing odd jobs in exchange for food. He should be in class, but has virtually dropped out of school because he is always hungry, said his mother Sithandile Dube, of Lupane district in Matebeleland North province. Thabiso only goes to school "if he has the strength," she says - which can be as little as once a week, usually when there is enough to eat at home. "We haven't had enough (food)...
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For protection from the rising sea, look to Europes example
2015-11-22 04:07:03| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: Last summer, Peter van Veelen led me on a hydraulic tour of Rotterdam, an excursion along the canals, dikes, sluice gates, and cisterns that keep residents dry in an island of a city that's mostly below sea level. Under a leaden sky, van Veelen, an urban planner, pedaled his battered three-speed. I trailed behind on a rental bike. He pointed at the red stones paving a plaza by the new central train station. A chamber below stores storm water gushing from the building's 7-acre roof, delaying drainage...
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Surges 237 Points on Rising Oil Prices
2015-11-17 21:26:44| Furniture - Topix.net
For Nov. 16, 2015, here's the top stock market news and stocks to watch based on today's market moves The Dow Jones Industrial Average today gained more than 237 points as investors looked past the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks and oil prices surged due to geopolitical concerns. French airstrikes in Syria and news the United States is targeting the oil infrastructure and trucks used by ISIS pushed oil prices up and snapped a three-day losing streak for the commodity.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Surges 237 Points on Rising Oil Prices
2015-11-17 00:44:40| Telecom - Topix.net
Two years ago - when microchip specialist Avago Technologies Ltd. said it would buy rival LSI Corp. - we had reason to celebrate. We'd recommended LSI to you about 18 months before that.
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Greenlands Rapidly Melting Glaciers Will Result in Rising Sea Levels for Decades to Come
2015-11-15 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: A massive Greenland glacier that holds enough water to raise sea levels by half a meter [nearly 20 inches] is melting at speed, according to a new study. The Zachariae Isstrom in northeast Greenland has entered a phase of accelerated retreat, and is losing mass at the rate of 5 billion metric tons a year, according to U.S. scientists. They report in the journal Science that a succession of aerial surveys combined with multiple satellite observations has established that the base of the glacier...
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