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Water Scarcity May Limit Fracking In UK
2013-12-09 10:42:30| oilandgasonline News Articles
The fracking industry in the UK may run into trouble because it relies heavily on a scarce resource: water.
Leaked IPCC report links climate change to global food scarcity
2013-11-07 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It's a human-centric approach, but the prospect of a food scare should be one way to get people--believers and deniers alike--to seriously evaluate the effects of climate change. Last week, a source leaked a draft report, drawn up by the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and due to be released next March. It's the second of three reports, following the first that came out in September this year. Among other things, the text clearly outlines the threats climate change poses...
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Climate Change and Water Scarcity
2013-10-08 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Using a novel methodological approach, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have introduced new estimates on how climate change will affect water availability. Access to freshwater in Africa and the Middle East is known to be scarce, but the Siberian tundra and Indian grasslands also lack freshwater. These areas along with dry pockets across the globe are expected to expand and create implications for their habitats and communities. The new study predicts that if...
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Worsening Water Scarcity to Affect 2 Billion Globally
2013-09-21 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Water scarcity is a fact of life in many parts of the world, particularly in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. A new study says the situation could get a lot worse, with climate change resulting in less rain and more evaporation in many areas. Warming will expose 668 million people worldwide to new or aggravated water scarcity -- that's in addition to the 1.3 billion people already at present living in water-scarce regions. Credit: Nourishing the Planet The study, led by researchers at the...
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Experts urge Caribbean nations to prepare for climate change or risk fresh water scarcity
2013-09-06 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean -- the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region. Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week. "Inaction is not an option,' said Lystra Fletcher-Paul, Caribbean land and water officer...