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Environment News tagged with drought

Climate Change Could Kill 250,000 Children
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, drought, flooding, effects of climate change, Children suffering )

Katie
- 34 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The charity warns that over 900 million children in the next generation will be affected by water shortages and 160 million more children will be at risk of catching malaria - one of the biggest killers of children under five .....
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Kenya Sees Worst Drought in 25 Years
Environment  (tags: environment, drought, Kenya, animals, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 74 days ago - fauna-flora.org
Local communities and wildlife all across Northern Kenya are suffering from what is considered to be the worst drought in 25 years
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Drought, Death Grips Kenyan Heartland
Environment  (tags: Kenya, drought, death, World Food Program (WFP), Kenyan government, climate change, failedcrops, UN, massive shortfalls, emergency programs, economic crisis )

Rosemary
- 92 days ago - cnn.com
MOUNT KENYA, Kenya (CNN) -- For as long as anyone cares to remember, the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley have fled with their herds to the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya when times are tough. Hundreds of dead cattle litter the slopes> Continued
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Trees Are 'Crucial Famine Food'
Environment  (tags: environment, drought, Sustainabililty, humans, food resorces, supply, nature, trees, endangered, conservation )

Dee
- 123 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Trees can serve as a vital "famine food" to keep drought-hit communities alive when all other food crops fail, according to campaigners.
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Sign Petition: Ask the EPA to Acknowledge the Truth About Global Warming
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 194 days ago - change.org
Global warming is the single greatest threat to wildlife, not to mention our children's future. At last, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking steps to formally declare that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to our public health and welfare.
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Sign Petition: Urge the Obama Administration to Actively Support Climate Legislation
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 200 days ago - secure3.convio.net
The Union of Concerned Scientists released the Climate 2030 Blueprint, a peer-reviewed study showing that the United States can dramatically cut global warming pollution while saving American households and businesses billions of dollars in energy costs.
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Sign Petition: Make Polluters Pay for ALL Carbon Credits
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 200 days ago - act.truemajorityaction.org
Instead of making polluters pay for messing up our climate like the President asked, House Democrats are now proposing to give the biggest polluters in the country free credits to keep fouling our atmosphere. Use this page to tell Congress that's not OK.
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Take Action: Tell Congress to Pass Tough Global Warming Legislation!
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, habitat, species, endangered, climate change, wildlife, ocean, polar bears, whales, humans, global warming, arctic, malaria, disease, floods, drought, wildfires, hurricanes, starvation, pollution )

Tom
- 255 days ago - nrdconline.org
Global warming threatens to trigger the irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet, a 20-foot rise in sea levels and the extinction of countless wildlife species, including the polar bear. Tell Congress to avert a global warming catastrophe.
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Land Degradation Endangers Quarter of World Population
Environment  (tags: habitatdestruction, ecosystems, drought )

Ben
- 255 days ago - treehugger.com
Land degradation is the decline in soil, water, and vegetation quality - the very things we depend on for life. For the first time scientists have used satellite pictures and GIS software to assess the degradation of land over the entire Earth...
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Drought Ends in Addo National Park
Environment  (tags: environment, Addo National Park, rainfall, drought, nature, wildlife, protection, habitat )

Cher
- 271 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Addo Park staff breathed a sigh of relief when the first drops of rain fell on 8 February 2009. The drops that fell, and continued to fall for the next week, signified an end to a very dry period - the driest in over 50 years, said local farmers in the
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Irrigators Slam Extra Murray Flows - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, drought, irrigators, murray-darling, rivers, floodplains, trees, environment, ecosystems, protection )

Chrissy
- 683 days ago - abc.net.au
South Australian irrigators have reacted angrily to the Murray-Darling Basin Commission's decision to release environmental water flows onto the Chowilla floodplain in the Riverland.
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Water Released to Save River Red Gums - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, river, drought, murray river, murray-darling, gum trees, trees )

Chrissy
- 684 days ago - news.theage.com.au
More than four gigalitres of water will be released down the Murray River to protect significant 200-year-old river red gums and wetland areas hit by the drought. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) said 2.6gl would be released into the Chowilla
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ENN: Drought-Hit Cyprus Considers Importing Water
Environment  (tags: climate-change, ecosystems, conservation, destruction, environment, humans, oceans, drought, Greece, water, globalwarming, ClimateChange, endangered, government, nature )

Thunderr
- 692 days ago - enn.com
Drought-stricken Cyprus may import water to beat a crippling shortage that is threatening to tap the island's reservoir reserves dry, its agriculture minister said on Wednesday.The decision to bring water in sea tankers from Greece would depend on weather
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Some Say Ga. Should Look Across the Border for Water Solution
Environment  (tags: drought, georgia )

Nicole
- 727 days ago - myfoxatlanta.com
ATLANTA (AP) -- As drought-stricken Georgia looks for other ways to quench its growing thirst, some politicians are looking across the state line to the massive Tennessee River basin for an answer.
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WWF - Indonesia at Risk: Climate Change Threatens People and Nature
Environment  (tags: destruction, forests, greenhousegases, globalwarming, ecosystems, ClimateChange, drought, habitatdestruction, wildlife, trees, indonesia, climate, HabitatDestruction, pollution, humans )

Thunderr
- 733 days ago - panda.org
The devastating impact of global warming is already evident in Indonesia and will likely worsen due to further human-induced climate change,warns WWF.Climate Change in Indonesia - Implications for Humans and Nature,highlights that annual rainfall in the>>
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