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Persian Gulf Nations Might Be Screwed No Matter What the World Does About Climate Change

In a region where summer temperatures already top 40 degrees Celsius ? into triple digits on the Fahrenheit scale ? recent research suggests an ever-warmer future will pose...

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Environment

Nearly 40,000 Displaced After Cyclone Chapala Slams Into Yemen

The storm, with its extremely heavy rains and flooding, affected as many as 1.1 million people, and displaced more than 36,000, according to the United Nations Office for t...

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Environment

These Nations Might Have The Most To Lose With A Global Climate Deal

So far, more than 120 countries have made detailed pledges for reducing emissions to the United Nations before the Paris conference in early December. Those countries repre...

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Sustainable Development

The Syrian War Is Causing A Dust Bowl In The Middle East, Researchers Suspect

The Remote Sensing Laboratory in Israel uses a device called a sun photometer to measure the severity of dust storms. The device measures the amount of light coming from th...

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Environment

Researchers Withdraw Seeds From 'Doomsday' Vault To Address Food Crisis In Syria

Researchers at the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) hope that the seeds withdrawn from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will help improve ...

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Environment

The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit by Water Shortages by 2040

The nations most likely to be hit by severe and continuous water shortages by 2040 include Bahrain (which will be the single most water-stressed), Israel, Palestine, Spain,...

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Festivals

World’s First VR Film Festival Takes You To A Real War Zone

If you’re going to make the first-ever virtual-reality movie filmed inside a war zone, you might as well do it in the most dangerous city on the planet. So that&rsquo...

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Migrant Crisis: “If We Don’t Stop Climate Change, Then What We See Right Now Is Just The Beginning”

The surge of people fleeing to Europe from the Middle East highlights how quickly mass migrations can occur. It may also offer a glimpse of what’s to come as climate ...

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Environment

Migrant Crisis: ?If We Don?t Stop Climate Change, Then What We See Right Now Is Just The Beginning?

The surge of people fleeing to Europe from the Middle East highlights how quickly mass migrations can occur. It may also offer a glimpse of what?s to come as climate change...

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Gender

UN Official Says Women Paid 24 Percent Less Than Men Globally, 30 Percent Less In Asia

A U.N. agency is mounting a worldwide campaign for equal pay for women, who get 24 percent less than men on global average and around 30 percent less for those in Asia. Rec...

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