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Potato Famine Pathogen More Infectious Now than Ever
2013-07-18 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The same plant pathogen responsible for the devastating Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s is even more virulent now, after going through more than a century of genetic mutations that provide the pathogen with a greater means to harm and kill plants, according to researchers studying early and modern strains of the pathogen. Plant pathologists from North Carolina State University and the University of Copenhagen analyzed the genomes of five 19th century strains of Phytophthora infestans and compared...
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'Suffering...without witnesses': over a quarter of million people perished in Somali famine
2013-05-06 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new report estimates that 258,000 people died in 2011 during a famine in Somalia, the worst of such events in 25 years and a number at least double the highest estimations during the crisis. Over half of the victims, around 133,000, were children five and under. The report, by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), argues that the international community reacted too late and too little to stem the mass starvation brought on by government instability, conflict, high food prices, and failed...
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Famine forecasting systems still failing to spur action
2013-04-05 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Further scientific improvements to famine forecasting will do little to save more lives without reforms to the way in which the humanitarian community uses them, according to a report published today (5 April). Despite being preventable because of sophisticated early warning systems, famine crises continue to be deadly. This is because warnings are systematically ignored by donor governments, agencies and governments in affected countries, says the report, published by Chatham House, an independent...
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Human climate change big factor in Somali famine
2013-03-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Global warming may have contributed to low rain levels in Somalia in 2011 where tens of thousands died in a famine, research by British climate scientists suggests. Scientists with Britain's weather service studied weather patterns in East Africa in 2010 and 2011 and found that yearly precipitation known as the short rains failed in late 2010 because of the natural effects of the weather pattern La Nina. But the lack of the long rains in early 2011 was an effect of "the systematic warming due...
Human climate change big factor in Somali famine
2013-03-15 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A new study has found that human-induced climate change contributed to low rain levels in East Africa in 2011, making global warming one of the causes of Somalia's famine and tens of thousands of deaths. Climate scientists with Britain's national weather service studied weather patterns in Somalia in 2010 and 2011 and found that yearly precipitation known as the short rains failed in late 2010 because of the natural effects of La Nina. But Peter Scott, one of the study's authors, said the lack...