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Cash deserts cry out for free-to-use ATMs
2019-10-31 12:43:23| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A "request an ATM" service faces overwhelming demand, receiving more than 100 applications.
Too many deserts in land of plenty
2017-09-29 11:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Though our producers harvest the safest and most bountiful food in the world, far too many of U.S. consumers lack access to good, nutritious food.
Rent Spikes Are Creating Fine Dining Deserts in New York City
2017-07-21 03:11:09| National Real Estate Investor
Union Square has been gentrified beyond recognition.
China fights deserts spread and puts Mongols way of life at risk
2015-10-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Dust storms and desertification are two of Chinas biggest environmental challenges, and they cant be addressed without dealing with the stressed northern region of Inner Mongolia. Years of intensive agriculture, the ravages of open-pit coal mining, and climate change have depleted the scarce water resources of the already arid territory. Its grasslands are disappearing and lakes are drying up. Chinas response includes the Great Green Wallplanting vast numbers of trees to form a protective belt...
Spread of deserts costs trillions, spurs migrants
2015-09-15 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Land degradation, such as a spread of deserts in parts of Africa, costs the world economy trillions of dollars a year and may drive tens of millions of people from their homes, a U.N.-backed study said on Tuesday. Worldwide, about 52 percent of farmland is already damaged, according to the report by The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD), compiled by 30 research groups around the world. It estimated that land degradation worldwide cost between $6.3 trillion and $10.6 trillion a year in lost...
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