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The Stream, October 12: Biofuels Spur Hunger

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U.S. government support for biofuels and inaction on climate…
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The Stream, October 7: Final Hearing On Keystone XL Pipeline

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Environmentalist Bill McKibben talks to the Guardian about tar…
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

Peter Gleick: Water Emergencies — Time for New Plans and Technology

The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes. But there are other challenges that are short-term, emergency situations that could also be addressed by some new thinking and new technology.
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

The Stream, October 6: Climate Change in Australia

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The weather extremes in Australia are a dress rehearsal for the…
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

The Stream, October 5: Out of Water

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Severe water shortages due to the La Nina weather pattern are…
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

The Stream, September 30: Water, Energy, Food

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Shale gas will not solve Britain’s energy problems, an Economist…
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

The Stream, September 22: U.K. Shale Gas

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More than a third of the European Union's agro-environmental…
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2011 is Record-setting Year for Climate Change: Ice Melts in Arctic, High Temps in U.S.

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A new study has revealed that ice volume in the Arctic Sea reached an all-time low in 2010. Meanwhile, in the United States, more high-temperature records have been set this summer than in any other year previously, as well as many regions that have broken rainfall and drought records.
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The Stream, September 9: U.S. Temperature Records

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Summer 2011 saw more warm temperature records tied or broken…
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The Stream, September 8: Peak Water in Saudi Arabia

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Peak water looms more ominously than peak oil for Saudi Arabia,…
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

Water and Food Security: Somalia Famine Grows, Drought Could Ease

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Meteorologists are hopeful for future rainfall, though they say the current disaster was preventable. The lack of rain, which is also affecting neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, and political instability have tipped Somalia into a food crisis that could persist, even as drought conditions abate.
Somalia Suffers from Severe Drought

The Stream, September 6: Sixth Famine Zone in Somalia

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The United Nations has declared a sixth famine zone in Somalia,…