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How Drought Helped Spark Syrias Civil WarIs it One of Many Climate Wars to Come?
2013-09-10 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate change is already hurting the worlds most vulnerable populations. Those who live in areas hit hard by drought, severe storms or rising seas and cant relocate because of economic or social factors bear the brunt of our planets increasing volatility. One way the changing climate has already made itself known is through a devastating drought--and ensuing food shortage--in Syria; it created a powder keg, and played a significant role in sparking the countrys civil war. We can expect to...
How Could A Drought Spark A Civil War?
2013-09-08 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The background of the Syrian conflict can seem obscure to outsiders, but the spark that started it all is often traced back to the city of Dara'a, in February of 2011. A group of young people writing Arab Spring protest slogans on a wall are arrested and beaten. "When that news broke there was a massive demonstration on the street, and that was the first spark one can call of the Syrian uprising," Nayan Chanda tells NPR's Jacki Lyden. But long before a single shot was fired in Syria, there...
Civil Rights Title VI Plan, City of Portland
2013-09-04 20:54:29| PortlandOnline
BCP-ADM-18.01
ADM-18.01 - City of Portland Civil Rights Title VI Plan
2013-09-04 20:43:15| PortlandOnline
BCP-ADM-18.01
Its time for civil rights and environmental activists to join hands
2013-08-28 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Somehow environmental justice got lost at the rally commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Freedom & Jobs. The 50-plus speakers at the August 24 gathering, which drew tens of thousands of people to the nation`s capital, spoke out about restoring voting rights, fighting stand your ground laws, and pushing for stronger worker wages. But little was said about how people of color suffer disproportionately from polluted air and water, and are the first to suffer because of...
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