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To ease climate change, US should end drilling federal land: study
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on August 20th, 2015
Reuters: Up to 450 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases would be kept out of the atmosphere if the U.S. government stopped leasing federal lands to fossil fuel companies, according to a study released on Wednesday.
The government currently allows energy companies to lease federal lands for drilling, and environmental groups say if the practice is not halted, the United States will be unable to meet its obligations to combat climate change.
The oil, coal and gas under lands owned by the federal government...
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Comments Off on To ease climate change, US should end drilling federal land: studyEl Niño to disrupt rains, cut Africa, E Asia harvests, scientists say
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on June 4th, 2015
Reuters: Farmers in Africa and East Asia are expected to suffer crop losses as extreme weather linked to the El Nino phenomenon alters rainfall patterns, scientists told a conference on climate change in Bonn on Wednesday. The rainy season has been delayed in several African nations, and it is difficult to predict exactly how large the crop losses will be, said Sonja Vermeulen, a University of Copenhagen scientist. "Peanut farmers in Gambia, for example, have already been hit this year," Vermeulen told...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on El Niño to disrupt rains, cut Africa, E Asia harvests, scientists sayYields of key cassava crop not keeping pace with Africa population growth: TRFN
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on March 3rd, 2015
Reuters: Yields of cassava, a key crop feeding millions of people across Africa, are not keeping pace with population growth despite its tolerance for climate change, a leading scientist said.
More than half the world's cassava, a high-energy root crop, is grown in sub-Saharan Africa, where it is often the cheapest source of calories for poor people, said Clair Hershey, programme leader at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
"More than 200 million people rely on...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Yields of key cassava crop not keeping pace with Africa population growth: TRFNClimate change could cut world food output 18 percent by 2050
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on December 18th, 2014
Reuters: Global warming could cause an 18 percent drop in world food production by 2050, but investments in irrigation and infrastructure, and moving food output to different regions, could reduce the loss, a study published on Thursday said.
Globally, irrigation systems should be expanded by more than 25 percent to cope with changing rainfall patterns, the study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters said.
Where they should be expanded is difficult to model because of competing scenarios...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Climate change could cut world food output 18 percent by 2050Eat less meat, dairy to slow climate change, study says
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on December 3rd, 2014
Reuters: Meat and dairy consumption are rising rapidly across the developing world, and consumers are unaware that their appetite for animal products contributes as much to climate change as exhaust emissions from the transport sector, a new survey shows.
Climate-changing emissions from livestock are estimated to account for 14.5 percent of the global total, according to Chatham House, a UK-based thinktank.
A survey of 12,000 people in 12 countries released by Chatham House late on Tuesday showed that...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Eat less meat, dairy to slow climate change, study saysPopulation growth outpaces food supply conflict-ravaged Sahel – study
Posted by Reuters: Chris Arsenault on October 20th, 2014
Reuters: The Sahel region's ability to produce food is not keeping pace with its growing population, and global warming will only exacerbate the imbalance, according to a new study.
Among the 22 countries making up the arid region in northern Africa, the population grew to 471 million in 2010 from 367 million in 2000, a jump of nearly 30 percent.
As the population grew rapidly, the production of crops remained essentially unchanged, said researchers from Lund University in Sweden.
Using satellite...
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