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Hunger Seen Worsening by Oxfam as Climate Change Heats Up World

2013-09-23 01:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: World hunger is expected to worsen as climate change hurts crop production and disrupts incomes, with food-price spikes due to extreme weather set to increase, charity Oxfam said. The number of people at risk of hunger may climb by 10 percent to 20 percent by 2050 as a result of climate change, with daily per-capita calorie availability falling across the world, Oxfam wrote in an e-mailed report today. The world risks cataclysmic changes caused by extreme heat waves, rising sea levels and depleted...

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Camden exhibit looks at hunger firsthand

2013-09-21 12:25:43| Food - Topix.net

What does poverty look like in Camden? A nearly empty refrigerator at the end of the month.

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Watch 'The Hunger Games' outdoors at Chimney Rock

2013-09-04 02:44:03| Grocery - Topix.net

In anticipation of the Nov. 22 release of the sequel, "Catching Fire," Chimney Rock will screen "The Hunger Games" this Saturday, Sept.

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Australia: Climate campaigners start 'hunger strike' to block Queensland coal project

2013-08-30 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Australia's coal industry is being targeted by a range of campaigns from divestment to civil disobedience Share Tweet this Email Andrew Bartlett, left, and Ben Pennings, who are hunger striking in Brisbane in protest at a Queensland coal rail project Ben Pennings has recruited six so far but, according to his campaign group's website, another 150 people are going to join for a day or two in support. "We will only have water, and tea with no milk or sugar," says the 41-year-old environment...

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