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Emergency plan to help teach Syria's refugees
2015-03-11 01:30:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Emergency plan to help teach Syria's refugees
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How climate change contributed to Syria's civil war
2015-03-06 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MPR: A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Science draws a connection between climate change and the civil war in Syria. A devastating drought in the region from 2007 to 2010 forced a mass migration to the cities. That dramatic social change fomented a rebel movement and government backlash that has killed more than 200,000 people since 2011, according to the United Nations. The Pentagon has listed climate change as a national security thread since 2010. Last...
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Global warming helped trigger Syria's civil war
2015-03-02 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March 2. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to attribute the drought in Syria in large part to global warming. In doing so, it provides powerful evidence backing up the Pentagon and...
Jihadists now in control of all of Syria's main oil fields
2014-07-04 17:24:36| IT Services - Topix.net
Agence France Presse reported Friday that jihadists in Syria now control all of the country's main oil and gas fields.
Statement: Syria's Nusra Front to stop fighting ISIL if certain conditions met
2014-05-04 16:09:23| IT Services - Topix.net
Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front announced Sunday its conditions to end fighting in Syria with its rival extremist group, according to Agence France Presse.
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