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Obama says ‘no greater threat planet than climate change’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 18th, 2015
Agence France-Presse: US President Barack Obama said Saturday that climate change poses the world's biggest single threat.
"Today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change," Obama said in his weekly address, which had an environmental theme to mark Earth Day on April 22.
"Climate change can no longer be denied, or ignored," he added, noting that 2014 was the hottest year on record.
The United States is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter after China, and Obama has pledged to reduce US...
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China struggle for water security
Posted by Agence France-Presse: Giles Hewitt on April 18th, 2015
Agence France-Presse: Way back in 1999, before he became China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao warned that water scarcity posed one of the greatest threats to the "survival of the nation". Sixteen years later, that threat looms ever larger, casting a forbidding shadow over China's energy and food security and demanding urgent solutions with significant regional, and even global, consequences. The mounting pressure on China's scarce, unequally distributed and often highly polluted water supply was highlighted in a report...