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World 'faces food shortages & mass migration' caused global warming

2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: The world is facing a future of food shortages and mass migration as a consequence of widespread water shortages caused by global warming, the outgoing head of the World Meteorological Society has warned. Michel Jarraud, the WMOs Secretary-General, said of all the dangers posed by climate change from increasingly intense storms and a growth in disease to rising sea levels that may submerge cities the greatest threat is from dwindling water supplies. About 1.6 billion people already live...

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EU doubles aid to drought-hit Papua New Guinea to tackle food, water shortages

2015-12-23 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: An El Nio-related drought and frost have triggered severe food and water shortages in Papua New Guinea's highlands, prompting the European Commission to more than double its assistance to the Pacific island nation. The warming of the Pacific Ocean due to the El Nino weather system is causing drought and other extreme weather, affecting millions of people across parts of the world. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill in August said El Nio may bring on the worst drought in 20 years in Papua New Guinea,...

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Southern Africa faces food shortages as El Nino drought worsens: FAO

2015-12-23 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Southern Africa faces food shortages as drought, exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern, delays planting and stunts crops across the region, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said in an alert. "The presence of a strong El Nino episode in 2015/16 raises serious concerns regarding the impact on food insecurity," the FAO said in the alert, issued late on Tuesday. Regional harvests last season were also badly affected by drought conditions, raising the specter of back-to-back...

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Drinking Water Shortages Plague Pakistan Region

2015-11-15 07:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: "We have to purchase water from the municipalities for our daily use. The water column has gone too deep and it is hard to pump out the commodity," said Muhammad Shakir, a resident of Hayatabad, an upscale town in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The situation isn't showing any sign of improvement and is going from bad to worse, as increasingly the children don't to schools and colleges due to non-availability of water, he says. Shakir, a businessman says the matter has been...

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