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A year of extremes: severe snow storms, drought and floods ravaged US in 2015

2015-12-27 05:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: 2015 has been the warmest year, globally, on record, with the lower 48 states of the US experiencing their balmiest autumn ever measured. This kind of exceptional heat provided an appropriate setting for the Paris climate summit, where 196 nations agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the sort of dangerous climate change that contributes to floods, drought and damaging sea level rises. But the past year has also seen a number of severe natural disasters, climate change-fueled or...

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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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UK gives Ethiopia 30m to fight drought similar in scale 1984 crisis

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

Guardian: The UK will provide an extra 30m in aid for Ethiopia, where a prolonged drought means that more than 18 million people will need urgent relief in the next year, according to the Department for International Development (DfID). Half of the cash is earmarked for the UNS World Food Programme to supply emergency food supplies to around 1.9 million people, while 14m will go to a pooled fund that can be accessed by UN agencies and NGOs providing emergency water and healthcare. The funding was...

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