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Climate calamity top threat to global economy in 2016
2016-01-14 11:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Disasters caused by climate change beat nuclear proliferation and forced migrations to head economists concerns for the year ahead. A survey of 750 experts by the World Economic Forum before its annual meeting in Switzerland next week pushed the environment to first place in 11 years. Climate change is exacerbating more risks than ever before in terms of water crises, food shortages, constrained economic growth, weaker societal cohesion and increased security risks, said Cecilia Reyes, chief...
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Pacific Leaders Get Blunt About Unfolding Calamity of Climate Change
2015-11-02 16:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: At a summit in Fiji last week, the last major gathering of Pacific island nations before crunch UN climate talks in Paris next month, islanders thrashed out their collective plea to the world to help address the health impacts of climate change, particularly upon women, infants and adolescents. Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, Fijis foreign minister, said the country was dealing with the re-emergence of climate-influenced diseases such as typhoid, dengue fever, leptospirosis and diarrhoeal illnesses. Last...
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Toronto couple in million-dollar home struck by calamity when power pole installed in front of house
2015-06-25 23:47:45| Energy - Topix.net
Deep-fried goodness rules this year's K-Days in Edmonton. Food vendors have come up with two dozen unique creations.
Toronto couple in million-dollar home struck by calamity when power pole installed in front of house
2015-06-25 22:37:03| Telecom - Topix.net
Shirley and Todd Ankenmann, a couple in the city's neighbourhood of Bloor West Village, say their million-dollar dream home just isn't the same since the electric utility installed a power pole in front of the house and ruined the view. "I don't look out the window anymore," Shirley told CityNews Toronto for a segment that aired Wednesday .
Banana Killer on the March Fuels Risk of Fruit's Next Calamity
2015-06-04 11:39:01| Food - Topix.net
A type of Fusarium wilt appeared this year in Australia's main banana-growing state after spreading to Asia and Africa. While the fungus has been around since the 1990s and has yet to affect top exporter Ecuador, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. called it a potential "big nightmare."
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