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Smithfield deal points up a record Chinese hunger for farms
2013-06-23 16:13:27| Food - Topix.net
On a sunny March afternoon, 11 Chinese executives armed with digital cameras and iPads got out of a van on Brazil's highway BR-163 to photograph soybean-loaded trucks headed to export terminals.
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Singapore air pollution hits worst level on record
2013-06-22 03:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Singapores Pollutant Standards Index hit the highest level on record Friday as "haze" driven by fires burning across plantations, peatlands, and forest areas continued to rage across Sumatra. The air pollution gauge touched a record 400 at 11 am local time on Friday, according to the National Environment Agency's website. The level is considered "very unhealthy" with people advised to "minimize all outdoor exposure" and wear masks when outside. Singapores Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong expressed...
Earth Experienced 3rd Warmest May on Record This Year
2013-06-21 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Though described as preliminary, the most recent data from NOAA rank this year's May as the third hottest on record since measurements were first kept 134 years ago, averaging 1.19 degrees Fahrenheit (0.66 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average of 58.6 degrees Fahrenheit (14.8 degrees Celsius). In doing so, it tied with 1998 and 2005 when combining average temperatures over global land and ocean surfaces, and marked the 339th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th century...
During Record Drought, Frackers Outcompete Farmers for Water Supplies
2013-06-21 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impacts of 2013's severe drought are apparent across the nation in forests, on farms and on once snowy peaks. Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry is demanding unprecedented amounts of water for hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. Fourth-generation Colorado farmer Kent Peppler told the Associated Press (AP) that he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he cant afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep-pocketed energy companies...
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Hold ron Indonesian fires worsen, Singapore smog sets record
2013-06-21 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Military planes water-bombed Indonesian forest fires that worsened on Friday and blanketed neighboring Singapore in record levels of hazardous smog for a third straight day in one of Southeast Asia's worst air-pollution crises. As Singaporeans donned face masks and pulled children from playgrounds and Malaysia closed schools in the south, the deliberately-lit fires grew bigger in some areas. Whipped up by winds, the blazes added to fears over health problems and diplomatic tension in Singapore,...
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