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Indonesia's action on haze won't stop burning: palm farmers group
2015-11-12 14:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forest fires in Indonesia that have caused choking smoke across much of Southeast Asia will flare up again next year because government action to tackle the crisis is ineffective, a palm farmers group said. Indonesia and the wider Southeast Asian region have been suffering for weeks from smoke caused by smoldering forest and peatland fires, largely in Sumatra and Borneo islands that authorities have struggled to contain. Green groups and palm oil plantation firms say a 2009 law that allows...
Climate Change Bites Kenyan Tea Farmers
2015-11-11 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: You wouldn`t typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth`s climate is changing -- and this is affecting one of the world`s largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya. For Joseph Mwangi and his wife, picking tea early in the morning has become more difficult lately. "We have been experiencing frost on the leaves," Mwangi says. "This makes it hard to work, because the frost stings our hands," he added. Mwangi and his wife Alice Muthoni earn their living as tea-pickers...
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New Guide to Help UK Pig Farmers Cut Antibiotic Use
2015-11-11 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - A new review has just been published which contains guidance to help pig producers cut their antimicrobial use.
ANC may pay as drought withers black South African farmers' dreams
2015-11-09 16:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Cattle are the traditional asset by which Nampie Motloung, a subsistence black South African farmer, has long measured his wealth. But a blistering drought has made them a liability. "I have no choice but to sell some of my cows. I must do it before they die," Motloung, 62, told Reuters as his 30-strong herd ambled in the distance across the parched landscape. "It pains me to do so. My cattle are my family's inheritance," he said. The wealth of small-scale farmers and the dreams of emerging black...
Water limits raised for downstream farmers
2015-11-07 02:55:40| Waste Management - Topix.net
At an open meeting on Wednesday, November 4, the Commissioners of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality voted 3-0 to grant the LCRA's application to revise its Water Management Plan. The Plan approved by the TCEQ today will replace the Plan that it approved in January 2010, and will go into effect by January 1, 2016.
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