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UN panel: Warming worsens food, hunger problems
2014-03-31 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive, a United Nations scientific panel said. A warmer world will push food prices higher, trigger "hotspots of hunger" among the world's poorest people, and put the crunch on Western delights like fine wine and robust coffee, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a 32-volume report issued Monday. "We're facing the specter of reduced yields in some of the key crops that feed humanity," panel chairman Rajendra Pachauri...
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Climate change heightens risk of conflict, hunger - UN panel
2014-03-31 03:38:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Soaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, flood and migration this century, the UN's expert panel said Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change. Left unchecked, greenhouse gas emissions may cost trillions of dollars in damage to property and ecosystems and in bills for shoring up climate defenses, it said. The report said the impact of climate change was already being felt and would increase with every additional degree that temperatures rose. "Increasing...
Hunger, malnutrition in Canada's Arctic nears crisis
2014-03-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A new report highlighted Thursday growing hunger and malnutrition in Canada's Arctic as development snowballs and tastes change, and called for immediate actions to stop an "emerging public health crisis." The report found that most northern households are twice as likely -- 27 percent versus a national average of 12 percent -- to face hunger or fear of starvation. Northern households with children reported even higher rates of food insecurity. Nearly 115,000 people, mostly indigenous, live...
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Viola Davis' new role: Fighting childhood hunger
2014-03-28 13:47:20| Grocery - Topix.net
Viola Davis, two-time Academy Award nominee, is pairing with the Hunger Is foundation to provide funding for school breakfast programs.
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Is Japan playing hunger games with climate change?
2014-03-28 10:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: he impact of rising temperatures on the world's food supplies is a key issue for climate experts meeting in Japan. But food security is not just about developing countries. As environment correspondent Matt McGrath reports, a changing climate is one of a number of issues pushing Japan towards a food crisis. In the historic Ueno Park in the middle of Tokyo, seemingly normal people are earnestly staring at trees. They are waiting for the first signs of cherry blossom, a spring event of special importance...
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