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Interactive Map: Extreme Weather worldwide in July 2012
Scroll down the page to use the interactive map. Record heatwaves kill at least 30 people and scorch more than half the USA. 77 people lose their lives, and hundreds more are left homeless after flash...
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Drought may threaten much of globe within decades
Dryness likely to increase substantially across Eurasia, Africa, Australia The United States and many other heavily populated countries face a growing threat of severe and prolonged drought in coming...
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Facing drought and rising seas, Seychelles expects little from U.S. in Cancun...
Seychelles Ambassador Ronald Jean Jumeau is used to hearing clucks of sympathy about the fate of his Indian Ocean island nation. He’s a little tired of it. “Yes, people make sympathetic noises. When we...
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Climate change threatening agriculture in South Africa
Creative Commons: World Bank Photo Collection The future of agriculture in South Africa is under pressure from climate change as exemplified by the dun maize fields at Vusi Mlozi’s farm in...
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Paul Epstein: 7 ways you are being harmed by global warming
Photo Credit: Chris JL/flickr By Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School The consequences of climate change...
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Pat Mulroy of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, on behalf of Conservation International, discusses how the arid regions of western North America are adapting water resources to shifting climates....
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Report: Climate change to have huge impact on human migration patterns
Drought- Creative Commons: IRRI Images A UK government-commissioned report suggests that governments and aid agencies should help the world’s poorest to move away from areas likely to be hit by...
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After devastating drought, Mexico finalizes climate bill
Creative Commons: QQ Li, 2006 Mexico, the world’s 15th biggest greenhouse gas emitter – and ravaged by its worst drought in 80 years – is close to passing legislation to create a domestic...
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Thousands connect the dots on 350.org’s Climate Impacts Day
Creative Commons: 350.org, 2012 All day today, our partners at 350.org have collected beautiful, emotional and striking images from across the world as part of Climate Impacts Day. On this day,...
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Dr. Rajiv Shah: From relief to resistance
Dr. Rajiv Shah | Creative Commons: United States Mission Geneva, 2011 Rio+Solutions works to provide solutions to challenges that will feature prominently at Rio+20, including jobs, cities, food,...
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Barbara Frost: The means to end poverty
Barbara Frost | Creative Commons: Overseas Development Institute, 2009 Rio+Solutions works to provide solutions to challenges that will feature prominently at Rio+20, including jobs, cities, food,...
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As wildfires scorch Colorado, research links them to climate change
Creative Commons: Bo Insogna, 2012 For the past week, much of the continental US and eastern Canada has sweltered in a record-breaking heat wave. Along with extreme temperatures, (the New York Times...
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Record breaking drought in North and South Korea
Creative Commons: Brian Yap, 2006 North and South Korea are experiencing one of their worst droughts in decades. The government in Seoul has deployed workers, water pumps and emergency funds of around...
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Dan Lashof: Smoking causes cancer; carbon pollution causes extreme weather
Courtesy: NRDC, 2012 Dan Lashof is the Director of the NRDC Climate Center. Smoking causes cancer. Carbon pollution causes extreme weather. It really doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. We...
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Link between climate change and extreme weather more apparent than ever
Creative Commons: Calder Monroe, 2011 Scientists are finding evidence that man-made climate change has raised the risks of individual weather events, such as floods or heatwaves, marking a big step...
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Extreme drought areas in USA nearly triple in 1 week
The drought gets worse: The US Drought Monitor reports that areas on the nation under extreme drought conditions in key agricultural states has tripled in the past week. Furthermore, the amount of...
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And Action! How TckTckTck partners are changing the world this week
Creative Commons: Bill Baker, 2012 As extreme weather continues to ravage communities and the environment around the world, people are standing up against the corporations, governments and institutions...
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Drought and devastation threaten millions in Africa’s Sahel
Creative Commons: Oxfam, 2011 More than one million children are at risk of severe malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa, according to two leading charities. World Vision and Save the...
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In the USA, July 2012 is warmest on record
Creative Commons: Eilleen McFall, 2008 July 2012 was officially not only the warmest July on record, but also the warmest month ever recorded for the lower 48 states, according to a report released...
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Food prices, drought and crop security: An essential Q&A
Creative Commons: Cathy Haglund, 2009 Whether you call it ‘extreme weather’ or ‘unprecedented drought’, the result is the same: grain crops in the US Midwest and the western corn belt are suffering in...
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Heatwave bakes western US states in triple digit temperatures
Creative Commons: Matthias Weinberger, 2012 Temperatures soared into triple digits across the western United States on Saturday as a continuing heat wave strained energy supplies and sent thousands to...
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Survey finds most Americans worry about drought, want shift to cleaner energy...
Creative Commons: Matt Rudge, 2006 Water — and how to protect it in the face of worsening drought conditions — is now a hot topic across America. Faced with record-breaking 2012 summer heat, 81 percent...
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UN calls for stronger policies to address global drought
Creative Commons: IRRI Images, 2007 More consolidated efforts to combat the threat of climate change and counter its ripple effects on global food security are needed amid an intensifying global...
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Daniel Souweine: Hey weather man! Where’s the climate coverage?
Creative Commons: Calder Monroe, 2011 This week in Boston, Mass., the nation’s broadcast meteorologists will meet in their yearly conferencesponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS)....
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Fresh Air news round-up for August 25th
Indian Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan at the UNFCCC talks in Durban | Source: UNFCCC/Mark Garten The news clips below are except from our weekly blogger intelligence briefing, the Fresh Air...
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Stephen Lacey: Scenes from an extreme summer
Creative Commons: Eilleen McFall, 2008 The 12-month period from August 2011 to July 2012 was the hottest ever recorded for the U.S. So far this year, more than 27,000 high temperature records have...
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Oxfam: What more extreme weather may mean for future global food prices
Creative Commons: Howard Davies, 2012 With greenhouse gas emissions at an all time high, and the world lurching towards a third food price spike in four years following the worst US drought since...
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Oxfam: Climate change, extreme weather will cause food prices to soar
Creative Commons: CraneStation, 2012 A report from Oxfam warns that global warming and extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in the coming decades. Oxfam had...
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US drought expands again, forecast to persist through early winter
Courtesy: United States Department of Agriculture, 2012 The massive and widespread 2012 drought that has gripped the nation since the spring refuses to die, according to the latest report from theÂ...
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Climate change threatens 1M maize and bean farmers in Latin America
Creative Commons: Rohs Street Cafe, 2007 In a report released Oct. 9, Catholic Relief Services urges policy makers to deal with growing drought corridor. Higher temperatures and changes in rainfall...
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Iowa climate scientists speak out: climate change caused drought
Creative Commons: CraneStation, 2012 More than 130 scientists from Iowa colleges and universities said in a statement on Monday that this year’s drought is consistent with a warmer climate predicted as...
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2012 on track to be 9th hottest year on record, despite La Nina
Creative Commons: Masroor Hamid, 2012 Despite early cooling from La Nina, 2012 is on track to become one of the top 10 hottest years on record, with the U.S. experiencing extreme warmth and Arctic Sea...
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Climate change will increase malnourishment among children
Creative Commons: Notley Hawkins, 2006 Food prices will more than double and the number of malnourished children spiral if climate change is not checked and developing countries are not helped to adapt...
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