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How Climate Change Threatens Zambia’s Already Fragile Nutrition Record
Posted by Inter Press Service: Friday Phiri on October 31st, 2015
Inter Press Service: It is slightly after 10 o'clock in the morning and 48-year-old Felix Muchimba of Siamuleya village in Pemba district has just finished having breakfast - a traditional drink called Chibwantu, made of maize meal and grit.
Nutritionally, the drink does not offer much except energy for the day's work. Normally, the next meal should be one o'clock, followed by the final meal of the day taken in the evening.
However, Muchimba and his six member family will be having their next and last meal of the...
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Mass gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet greater than losses
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 31st, 2015
ScienceDaily: A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers. The research challenges the conclusions of other studies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2013 report, which says that Antarctica is overall losing land ice. According to the new analysis of satellite data, the Antarctic ice sheet showed a net gain of 112 billion...