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IPv4 scarcity, bad rules thwart French anti-piracy body
2016-02-17 23:27:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) France is experiencing a scarcity of IPv4 addresses, which has led ISP Free to assign several customers to the same public IP address to avoid running out, Next Inpact reports. As a consequence, national anti-piracy authority Hadopi can not pin alleged infractions on specific internet users. Free subscribers have been complaining since December 2015 on the Lafibre.info forum. Hadopi declined to comment immediately while it awaits the nomination of a new chair of its consumer protection committee. Internal sources said this is obviously a big problem and decreasing further the effectiveness of the so-called three strikes or 'graduated response' system.
Four Billion People Suffer From Severe Water Scarcity World Wide
2016-02-16 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Nearly 66 percent of the world's human population suffers from insufficient access to fresh water for at least one month out of the year. This estimate, which equates to about four billion people, is far greater than scientists thought. Previously it was believed that that between 1.7 and 3.1 billion people lived with moderate to severe water scarcity for at least one month of year. However, in the latest study, led by Dr. Arjen Hoekstra of the Netherlands' University of Twente, researchers used...
Four billion people affected by severe water scarcity
2016-02-15 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: There are four billion people worldwide who are affected by severe water scarcity for at least one month a year. That is the conclusion of University of Twente Professor of Water Management, Arjen Hoekstra, after many years' extensive research. This alarming figure is much higher than was previously thought. His ground-breaking research was published in Science Advances. Professor Hoekstra's team is the first research group in the world to identify people's water footprint from month to month and...
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Indonesia: Climate change and water scarcity
2015-12-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: To the surprise of many, COP21 2015 has finished in Paris with a spectacular achievement. The target is to hold the increase in the global average temperature to below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. In spite of its success, COP21 ignored the risk of water scarcity, which is closely related to climate change. From the other side, many issues about financing the agreement are left hanging in the air. The...
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May's top stories: Vertical farm tackles food scarcity, ConAgra fined over salmonella contamination
2015-06-11 11:43:00| Food Processing Technology
Spanish design company Forward Thinking Architecture has developed a new solar-powered vertical farm concept to tackle future difficulties in food supply, while ConAgra Foods' subsidiary has agreed to pay a fine of $11.2m over salmonella poisoning. F