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Lack of toilets, clean water costs world $260 bln a year - Liberian president
2013-01-31 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: Poor access to sanitation and clean water costs the global economy $260 billion each year, according to Liberia's president who is leading work to craft proposals for a new set of global anti-poverty goals. They are intended replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were agreed in 2000 and expire in 2015. "$260 billion in economic losses annually is directly linked to inadequate water supply and sanitation around the world,' Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told a meeting...
Wildlife in a Warming World: Confronting the Climate Crisis
2013-01-31 14:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The climate crisis is already changing the playing field for wildlife and urgent action is needed to preserve Americas conservation legacy, according to a new report released yesterday by the National Wildlife Federation. Wildlife in a Warming World: Confronting the Climate Crisis examines case studies from across the country illustrating how global warming is altering wildlife habitats. It recommends solutions to protect both wildlife and communities across America from the growing climate-fueled...
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World seed banks get funds to tackle climate, other threats
2013-01-31 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists have agreed on a $109 million plan to strengthen the world's biggest seed banks of crops such as rice and wheat to help protect and develop new varieties resistant to climate change and other threats. The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the CGIAR Consortium of agricultural researchers said on Thursday that a five-year plan would help secure storage of more than 700,000 samples of crops at 11 existing gene banks from the Philippines to Belgium. "This will drive the creation of a real...
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Rough Guides World Lens (for iPhone)
2013-01-30 23:36:02| PC Magazine: New Product Reviews
A travel photo exploration app from longtime travel experts Rough Guides, called Rough Guides World Lens, should have plenty of content that's of interest to travels, but doesn't.
Toshiba's Shozo Saito Gives the Speech at World Semiconductor Summit in Tokyo
2013-01-30 23:04:14| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Toshiba Corporation today announced that Shozo Saito, Corporate Senior Executive Vice President responsible for Toshiba Group's electronic components business, will be a featured speaker at the World Semiconductor Summit in Tokyo 2013, on Wednesday, February 6. Mr.
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