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Middle East wars could put worlds food security at risk

2014-09-08 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: Millions of people could in future face starvation as an indirect result of the violent turmoil in the Middle East which has the highest concentration of wild crop plants needed to produce new food varieties, scientists said. Civil wars raging in Syria and Iraq threaten future food resources because of the crucial role the region plays as the home of the wild plants continually needed to improve the genetic quality of domesticated crops. The region, part of the Fertile Crescent, an ancient...

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AT&T's Entrance Into the Wireless Price Wars Just Got More Complicated

2014-09-01 06:19:58| IT Services - Topix.net

Sprint and T-Mobile are Nos. 3 and 4, respectively, in terms of U.S. subscribers in the telecom industry, as both Verizon Communications lead both carriers by nearly twofold.

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Marvel to Reissue Dark Horse 'Star Wars' Comics

2014-08-28 05:24:22| Toys - Topix.net

Fans looking to build up their tolerance to the Force in advance of next year's release of Star Wars: Episode VII got some good news Wednesday when Marvel Entertainment announced that, in addition to its three new Star Wars series and reprint program for the original Marvel Star Wars comics of the 1970s and '80s , it would additionally reissue ... (more)

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Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle for Control of Water

2014-08-25 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: There is a water war going on in the Middle East this summer. Behind the headline stories of brutal slaughter as Sunni militants carve out a religious state covering Iraq and Syria, there lies a battle for the water supplies that sustain these desert nations. Blood is being spilled to capture the giant dams that control the regions two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. These structures hold back vast volumes of water. With their engineers fleeing as the Islamic State (ISIS) advances, the...

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