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Steep decline in British public’s fracking support, poll shows
Posted by Blue and Green: None Given on May 20th, 2014
Blue and Green: The percentage of Britons who support fracking for shale gas has sunk to below 50%, according to the latest YouGov poll conducted on behalf of Nottingham University.
Support for shale gas has not recovered since the 58% high it reached in July 2012. This had fallen to 54% by September last year and then 53.3% by January. The latest instalment of the poll saw support fall to 49.7%.
High profile protests at a Sussex test drilling site last summer, where Green party MP Caroline Lucas was arrested,...
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Africa famine: soaring food prices intensifying crisis, report warns
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 20th, 2014
Guardian: A volatile global food supply is deepening the humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn of Africa, the World Bank warns in a new report.
Shortages and near-historic prices for staples such as corn, wheat and sugar have magnified the impact of the drought now ravaging the Horn of Africa, the Food Price Watch report said.
"While the emergency in the Horn of Africa was triggered by prolonged droughts, especially in areas struggling with conflict and internal displacement such as Somalia, food prices...
Extreme Weather: How El Niño Might Alter the Political Climate
Posted by New York Times: Nate Cohn on May 20th, 2014
New York Times: El Niño is coming. Above-average sea surface temperatures have developed off the west coast of South America and seem poised to grow into a full-fledged El Niño event, in which unusually warm water temperatures spread across the equatorial East Pacific. Models indicate a 75 percent chance of El Niño this fall, which could bring devastating droughts to Australia or heavy rains to the southern United States. The debate over climate change, however, brings additional significance to this round of El...