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Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change	19.6.2013	NYT > Environment
Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change
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In Berlin, Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions	19.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Julie Pace The Associated Press Published Jun 19, 2013 10:30AM MDT BERLIN • Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called “the global threat of our time.” In a wide-ranging speech that enumerated a litany of challenges facing the world, Obama said he wanted to reignite the spirit that Berlin displayed when it fought to reunite itself during the Cold War. “Today’s threats are not as stark as they were half a... ...
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions	19.6.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of our time."
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions	19.6.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions	19.6.2013	Twincities.com: News
BERLIN—Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.
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Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood	19.6.2013	New Scientist: GM Organisms
Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood
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IHT Rendezvous: And the Weatherman Says There’s More to Come	19.6.2013	NY Times: World
Europe has been enduring another year of unseasonable weather, and climate scientists warn that the pattern of cold winters and wet summers could last for years. Is it a natural phenomenon or does man-made climate change play a part?
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Global warming may cause extreme droughts in India: World Bank report (Cached)	19.6.2013	CNN-IBN: World
Global warming could lead to more extreme droughts in large parts of India, resulting in widespread food shortages and hardship in the country, in the next few decades, a new World Bank report warned on Wednesday.
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Climate change threatens trouble in the near future, World Bank says	19.6.2013	Washington Post
The World Bank is beginning to commit billions of dollars to flood prevention, water management and other projects to help major Asian cities avoid the expected impact of climate change, a dramatic example of how short the horizon has become to alleviate the effects of global warming. ...
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World Bank highlights climate-poverty link	19.6.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
World Bank highlights climate-poverty link
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World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank	19.6.2013	Guardian: Science
Droughts, floods, sea-level rises and fiercer storms likely to undermine progress in developing world and hit food supply Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned. Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely to accompany increasing global warming and will cause severe hardship in areas that are already poor or were emerging from poverty, the bank said in a report. Food shortages will be among the first consequences within just two decades, along with damage to cities from fiercer storms and migration as people try to escape the effects. In sub-Saharan Africa, increasing droughts and excessive heat are likely to mean that within about 20 years the staple crop maize will no longer thrive in about 40% of current farmland. In other parts of the region rising temperatures will kill or degrade swaths of the savanna used to ...
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UN urges global action to increase response to drought (Cached)	18.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, June 18 : Countries must work collectively to build resilience and prepare themselves against drought, United Nations officials stressed Monday, highlighting the extensive costs of this global threat.
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UN chief urges global efforts for drought, desertification (Cached)	18.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
United Nations, June 18 : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon has called for a collective global action to build resilience and prepare for droughts, as well as to combat desertification (a type of land degradation).
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Fauna that lived in Mayan times survive climate change (Cached)	17.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
Guatemala City, June 17 : Fauna that was prevalent at the height of the ancestral Mayan culture has survived prolonged droughts, hurricanes and the deleterious effects of climate change on biodiversity in the areas where the cities of that millennial culture stood, experts say.
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Climate science debate has cost precious time, expert warns	17.6.2013	Guardian: Environment
Commission report says evidence of rapidly changed climate has strengthened Floods, bushfires and this year's scorching summer heatwave have raised awareness of the dangers of climate change, but an "infantile" debate over the validity of the science has cost Australia precious time, according to a key Climate Commission expert. The commission, an independent body that advises the government on climate science , has updated its 2011 The Critical Decade study to analyse the latest findings on climate change and Australia's response to it. The report is likely to be the Climate Commission's last major contribution if, as expected, the Coalition wins power at the 14 September election. Opposition leader Tony Abbott has signalled that he will scrap the commission , along with the carbon price, if he becomes prime minister. The commission's updated analysis states that evidence of a "rapidly changing climate has continued to strengthen over the last two years", including, importantly, the ...
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An Arid Arizona City Manages Its Thirst	17.6.2013	NYT > Environment
An Arid Arizona City Manages Its Thirst
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Global warming sees Bangladesh river destroying villages (Cached)	16.6.2013	New Kerala: World News
By Sahana Ghosh, Dhaka, June 16 : It is time for Mohammed Qader of Bahuka village in Sirajganj district to move again. For the seventh time in the last 20 years that he has been residing in Bahuka, Qader will be forced to rebuild his life from scratch as the mighty Jamuna river continues to erode its banks and destroy everything in its wake - all thanks to global warming.
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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too	16.6.2013	AP Business
BONN, Germany (AP) -- From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming....
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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too	16.6.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.
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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too	16.6.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
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