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• Why Ethiopians remain hungry

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 128
  A casual visitor to Ethiopia ’s capital city, Addis Ababa, is quickly impressed by the smooth new roads and gleaming skyscrapers these days. Sure, it has shacks and slums, but in comparison to most of Africa’s sprawling chaotic capitals, Addis Ababa seems to be a neat and tidy city, relatively well-organized and ...
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• Parched O.C. ends month without rain

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 128
  A schooner travels the Newport Coast on a handsome November day. Photo by Robert Biles, Anaheim. Orange County averages 1.12” of rain in November. There were a couple of days when it looked like the region might get roughly that much precipitation.  And there was brief, isolated showers last week But Mother ...
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• With crops failing, 3.3 mn people in Bihar risk death by hunger (Special)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Sahil MakkarPatna, Nov 30 (IANS) Over 3.3 million people in Bihar risk death by hunger due to a new enemy. A senior official has blamed climate change for this year’s drought, which has placed so many people at risk.“It seems that climate change is responsible for drought in 26 districts of the state. Crop [...]
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• The Song of the Samburu

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 143
  By Ilmas Futehally Soon after the workshop on Climate Change and Water Stress in the Eastern Himalayan River Basins in Kathmandu, I left on a family holiday to Kenya. This was the African Safari we had been dreaming about…. seeing the Big Five, apart from giraffes, zebras, hippos…. Little did I think that ...
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• Ethiopia: Shoots of life in drought-ravaged land

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 138
  What’s being done to protect people from the worsening drought in Ethiopia? Caroline Gluck reports. Mother of eight Momina Hashu surveyed her field of maize with despair. ”We hardly have anything to eat – just leftovers”, she said, pointing to a couple of stunted cobs of maize that she’s managed to ...
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• Heart of Dryness: Water Infrastructure and Climate Change

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 561
  Photo courtesy of the James Workman The Los Angeles Aqueduct carries water from the Owens River to the city of Los Angeles. Built in the early 20th century, the pipe allowed for the settlement and cultivation of the San Fernando Valley. Courtesy of Aquafornia.org By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue ...
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• Climate change: Looking south

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  The impact of climate change on the developing world is already so far advanced it can no longer be prevented, only mitigated. It can be seen in the increased frequency of flooding in Bangladesh, or the desertification of sub-Saharan Africa. But it is also being experienced by millions of families and individuals, the ...
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• environmental news stories sunday

  
  skippy the bush kangaroo — Authority: 598
  stories you might not hear on the talking head shows this morning. bhopal: the victims are still being born. - bhopal is a calamity without end. on 3 december 1984, clouds of poison leaking from a union carbide pesticides plant brought death to thousands in this central Indian city. today, fully a quarter of a ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Tea production to go down due to weather: Tea Board chief

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Aparajita GuptaKolkata, Nov 29 (IANS) Tea production in India will be marginally lower this year than in the year before due to erratic weather, says Tea Board of India chairman Basudeb Banerjee.“This year our production has been slightly lower than last year. We will be marginally down by 10-15 million ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Climate change will hit Africa hardest | Meles Zenawi

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Having bailed out bankers, can developed counties really oppose funds to help developing nations fight global warming? Climate change will hit Africa – a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about – first and hardest. Aside from Antarctica, Africa is the only continent that has not ...
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• Parents should also act as censors: Asha Parekh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Panaji, Nov 28 (IANS) Former censor board chief and yesteryears actress Asha Parekh says parents should also act as censors, rather than banking on a government agency to do the job for them.“There should be a censor board. But the censor’s role should also be played by parents at home. Why shouldn’t parents ...
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• Life back in the Tsavo

  
  Bushmeat in Kenya — Authority: 395
  I was pleasantly surprised when I came across a coalition of five cheetahs 2 km from the Kilaguni lodge airstrip in Tsavo West National Park. I have driven through this park over a dozen times in the last 4 years and the only cat I have ever saw was a leopard in Ngulia. But the group of cheetahs below (possibly a ...
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• Farting Pig, Thirsty Camels Gain Attention of Australian Officials; Pre-Global Warming Storm Devastates London

  
  Symon Sez — Authority: 131
  Weird Critter Stories in Australia Camel Convention What is going in the land down under. Parts of Australia have been suffering from a terrible drought. That has created a fire hazard and also brought out the camels. Yes, camels. Back in the 19th century, camels were imported into Australia .  There was a ...
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• Climate change warning for Penang – in 1848

  
  anilnetto.com — Authority: 471
  Many of us would think that the concern about hill-slope degradation in Penang and warnings of climate change are a fairly new development which began in the 1980s and 1990s. Wrong. James Richardson Logan (the man who coined the name ‘Indonesia’ and who is honoured at the Logan Memorial outside the Penang High ...
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• From GPS noise, a signal achievement

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 637
  Researchers at the University of Colorado have teased from what most engineers think of as unwanted "noise" received by antennas of the Global Positioning System a signal that allows them to measure the depth of snow and the level of ...
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• New home water and energy efficiency support for disadvantaged

  
  eco media — Authority: 421
  Australia’s Environment Minister Peter Garrett has announced a new program to help improve the energy and water efficiency of low-income and disadvantaged Australian households. The $130 million program will provide free home assessments, as well as installation of energy and water efficiency products such as pipe ...
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• Camels get the hump…

  
  Ron's Rants... — Authority: 121
  Sorry. . . Anyway, in Australia, over 6,000 wild camels, in a herd that increases pretty much daily, have laid siege to the town of Docker River, in the Northern Territory. They’ve trapped people in their homes for days on end, damaged property and water tanks, demolished fences, stripped the local vegetation, both ...
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• S. Arabia Nets Climate Change Q3 Dividends

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 136
  Saudi Flood Death Toll Tops 88Saudi Arabia collects at least 88 dead in oil induced climate change Q3 profitsAt least 88 people have died in the heaviest flooding to hit Saudi Arabia in in living memory.As Muslim pilgrims were casting stones at walls representing the devil on the third day of the annual hajj, ...
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