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(Photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana
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(Photo: UN / /Isaac Billy)Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012....Full Story

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Hernando County briefs: Breakfast, rally to honor armed forces
| In Print: Friday, May 18, 2012 ADVERTISEMENT | ADVERTISEMENT | Story Tools Print this story Purchase reprints Contact the editor Email Newsletters | Briefly | BREAKFAST, RALLY TO APPRECIATE ARMED FORCES: An Armed Forces Appreciation Breakfast will be from 8 to 10:30 a...Full Story
Answer to hunger pangs
| Trying to solve a hunger crisis is no easy task, but a spirited team of engineers is wrapping their head around a design which aims to solve this pertinent issue. Bengaluru boy Aditya Kamalapurkar, along with three others is working on a project titled aQysta. Now, th...Full Story
We are the lucky country, US is most extreme in the weather stakes
| AUSTRALIA'S weather is not as wild as a decade of drought, two years of floods and a series of cyclones suggests, a global study shows. | Meteorologists at The Weather Channel performed an independent review of severe weather around the world, drawing on decades ...Full Story
Aussie life in a land of extremes
| RAVAGED by drought and bushfires, drenched by floods and hammered by destructive storms - Australia's recent weather patterns are a reminder how severe this wide brown land can be. | And comprehensive analysis of world climate data has revealed just how tough Aus...Full Story
Small Earthquakes May Cause Surprisingly Big Tsunamis
| Mysterious small tremors in the most earthquake-prone areas on Earthmay be the cause of surprisingly large tsunamis, researchers say. | These findings might also shed light on the huge tsunami generated by the disastrous magnitude 9.0 quake that hit Japan in 2011. | N...Full Story
Who will bury Britain's nuclear waste in their backyard?
A quiet and scenic corner of Kent is asking residents to let it be the country's first Nuclear Research and Disposal Facility. | Under threat: Fairfield Church on Romney Marsh in Kent captured shortly before sunset Photo: ALAMY tag --> | By Louise Gray | 9:05PM BST...Full Story
This day in history in the fight against global hunger
| Winston Churchill once said, "The further backward you look, the further forward you can see." As President Obama is set to make a speech about today's global hunger crisis, it helps to look back on this day in history. | On May 17, 1946 Herbert Hoover addressed the n...Full Story
New Report: Sahel Food Crisis Rapidly Worsening
| ATLANTA, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/..."/>   | Download image | More than 18 million suffering as G8 meets to discuss hunger in | , May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders at the humanitarian organization CARE are calling attention to a new ...Full Story
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65 Homes Evacuated Near Blaze In Northern Colo.
National Public Radio | FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Fire officials have ordered mandatory evacuations for residents of 65 homes near a wildfire burning near a scenic canyon in northern Colorado. | The area evacuated Thursday is where residents had previously been warned ...
65 homes evacuated near blaze in northern Colo.
my SA | FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Fire officials have ordered mandatory evacuations for residents of 65 homes near a wildfire burning near a scenic canyon in northern Colorado. | The area evacuated Thursday is where residents had previously been warned ...
65 homes evacuated near blaze in northern Colo.
The Associated Press FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) -- Fire officials have ordered mandatory evacuations for residents of 65 homes near a wildfire burning near a scenic canyon in northern Colorado. | The area evacuated Thursday is where residents had previously been warned to ...
All temperature records broken as the U.S. sees extreme weather in 2012
The Examiner | As of April 2012, The U.S. has shattered all previous weather records due to a warming climate, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The average temperature this year has been 45.4 degrees, up 5.4 degrees from the long-...
Summer will be hotter than normal
Herald Tribune | And the heat goes on. Forecasters are expecting warmer-than-normal temperatures for about three-quarters of the nation this summer, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. | The warmth is expected south of a line stretching f...
200-year-old shipwreck found full of bottles, guns and plates
MSNBC | A newly discovered shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico may have originally gone down 200 years ago. The ship is full of glass bottles, ceramic plates and boxes of muskets. | The shipwreck was discovered 200 miles (321 kilometers) off the Gulf Coast in ...
Algeria elections look good abroad, bad at home
Herald Tribune | ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria overturned the Arab Spring's revolutionary narrative with elections that bolstered the longtime ruling party and dashed Islamists' hopes of gaining power. The vote did something else, too: It burnished Algeria's democrati...
Hot Summer Projected for Much of US
Yahoo Daily News | More than half of the United States may be in for a hot summer, a continuation of a year-long trend of high temperatures across much of the country, according to scientists with federal agencies that monitor large-scale climate conditions and sever...
Parts of Japan see record-high CO2 levels
Daily Yomiuri | The average monthly concentration of carbon dioxide has topped 400 parts per million in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, the first time this level has been reached in Japan, raising alarm about greenhouse gases that can cause global warming. | The Japan ...
NISA feared guideline change / Agency sought vow tougher quake criteria would not cause disputes
Daily Yomiuri | The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) issued a strong demand to the Nuclear Safety Commission that it guarantee a 2006 revision of earthquake guidelines would not cause any disputes over disaster prevention, according to NISA documents ma...
G8 at Camp David: what the world wants to achieve
The Guardian | Guardian reporters analyse the wishlists of the world's leaders who are meeting at Barack Obama's presidential retreat in Maryland Barack Obama will welcome G8 leaders to his presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/...
Sh17 Billion Spent On Disasters
All Africa [The Star] The government has in the last five years spent Sh17 billion to deal with various disasters. Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday told Parliament that Sh 16 billion was spent on drought and famine interventions while Sh1.6 billion was use...
Flood of refugees hits camp near Sudan border
Herald Tribune | YIDA, South Sudan - An unexploded bomb sticks out of the earth. Foxholes have been dug by aid workers fearing more airstrikes from Sudan. Streams of hungry refugees are pouring in. | The Yida camp near the militarized Sudan-South Sudan border now h...
G8 pressed to keep up fight on hunger
France24 | AFP - Anti-poverty campaigners are urging leaders of rich nations to commit at a weekend summit to feeding the world's poor, warning that hunger is taking a devastating toll away from the headlines. | By all accounts, the crisis in the eurozone wil...
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