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How climate change and a deadly fungus threaten our coffee supply
2014-06-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: In the next 24 hours, the world will guzzle 1.6 billion cups of coffee, the most popular beverage on the planet besides water and tea. It`s big business, too: Global coffee exports totaled $28.6 billion in 2013--after oil, it is the world`s most traded commodity. But there`s something else that likes coffee even more than humans: Hemileia vastatrix, better known as coffee rust or roya disease. It`s a fungal parasite that survives on coffee tree leaves, and in the 2012-13 crop year alone, it caused...
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VIDEO: 'Pension reforms threaten economy'
2014-05-27 12:10:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
German economist Christoph Schmidt warns that demographic changes could threaten Germany's economic strength.
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Rising seas threaten Delaware coastal areas
2014-05-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Delaware Online: Along Prime Hook Beach, one of Delaware's most flood-threatened spots, longtime resident James A. Joyce Jr. said he pays attention to hurricane hazards, but worries more often about winter northeast storms. "I've been here 18 years now and we've been fortunate so far," Joyce said. "None of the hurricanes have really hit us hard. But hurricanes are always bad for somebody, and eventually our luck is going to run out." For Delaware's coastal residents, all storms be it a fast moving but highly...
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Potentially large soybean stocks threaten new-crop soybean prices
2014-05-25 17:15:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
If the soybean crop progresses smoothly into late summer and fall, new-crop soybean cash prices could tumble down to near $10, and could drop to $8.50, said Dan OBrien, Kansas State University Extension grain economist. read more
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Grasshoppers May Threaten Rangeland
2014-05-24 23:54:00| Beef
Southwest Farm Press It's egg-hatching season for grasshoppers all across the West and already a large batch of grasshoppers have invaded northern New Mexico, especially in Albuquerque and across Bernalillo County. The pesky creatures can be found on roadways, sidewalks and front porches making for an unsightly mess and threaten local nurseries and homes where plants and shrubs are subject to destruction. read more
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