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Warehousing scarcity adds to Brexit pressure on wine
2019-05-20 16:21:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The UK wine industry is fighting a "massive shortage" of warehouse space as companies pay the price for an extended Brexit deadline, a debate in London has heard.
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Large-Scale Rainwater Harvesting Eases Scarcity in Kenya
2016-07-12 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Rainwater harvesting in Kenya and other places is hardly new. But in this water-stressed country, where two-thirds of the land is arid or semiarid, the quest for a lasting solution to water scarcity has driven useful innovations in this age-old practice. The African Water Bank (AWB), an international nonprofit, has committed to providing and managing clean water using a much cheaper and efficient method. The technology`s main focus is to harvest and store rainwater on a large scale. It has...
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Small islands to face increased freshwater scarcity
2016-04-12 15:11:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Island populations are likely to face much greater scarcity of freshwater in the coming decades than previously thought, according to new research. Current global climate models (GCMs) indicate that 50 percent of small islands will become wetter, and 50 percent drier, by the middle of the century, but this new study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, contends that a more accurate estimate puts 73 percent at risk of increased aridity. The basis of this substantial discrepancy is that...
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Scrap 52 GW thermal projects to avert water scarcity: Greenpeace
2016-03-24 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Comment: The situation is particularly critical in China where 45% of coal-fired power plants are in areas of water over-withdrawal, followed by India and Turkey at 13%. Coal power plants use enough water to supply the needs of 1 billion people and that will nearly double if all the world's planned power plants come online. This would cause severe drought and worsen the ongoing conflict between agriculture and industry over water in regions such as Vidarbha and Marathwada in Maharashtra and Northern Karnataka....
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Food scarcity caused by climate change could cause 500,000 deaths by 2050
2016-03-03 11:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Vegetables, including broccoli, white onions and carrots, are displayed for sale on a fruit and vegetable stall at a market in Guildford, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg The effects of climate change on food production around the world could lead to more than 500,000 deaths by the year 2050, according to a grim new study. Climate-related impacts on agriculture could lead to an overall global decline in food availability, the research suggests, forcing people...
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