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29,000 Children Dead Due to East African Famine in Past Three Months (Video)

10:58 am in africa, Food & Health, global climate change, natural disasters, poverty by TreeHugger

The drought and accompanying famine in East Africa continues to get worse: Three more regions of Somalia have been declared famine zones--defined as places where at least 20% of households face severe shortages and when more than 2 people in 10,000 die daily from ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Kenyan Refugee Camp For Victims of Record-Breaking Drought Now As Big As Kansas City

10:51 am in africa, global climate change, global warming effects, natural disasters, Science & Technology by TreeHugger

dadaab refugee camp photo photo: Oxfam East Africa/CC BY 2.0 Some updates on the ongoing situation in the Horn of Africa, where thousands of people are being forced to flee fromrecord-breaking drought and, in certain places, outright famine--all of which is, at least in part, made worse by our changing climate. According to Germany's Africa polic...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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1500+ Cattle Die From Extreme Heat In South Dakota

2:16 pm in animals, Food & Health, natural disasters by TreeHugger

via internet food health Twenty-plus people have died from the extreme heat that's been gripping half of the United States for the past several days. But humans aren't the only ones dropping dead: The Mitchell, South Dakota Daily Republic reports that at least 1,500 cattle have died due to heat exhaustion in the current heatwave. And those are just those which have been reported to the office of the State Veterinarian....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Thousands Climate Refugees Per Day Pushing Into Kenya & Ethiopia As Epic Drought Continues

2:04 pm in africa, Business & Politics, global climate change, global warming effects, natural disasters, poverty by TreeHugger

The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya. In northern Kenya, the refugee camp at Daadab has 1,500 new people per day are arriving CARE reports. In the south-eastern part of Ethiopia a new refugee camp at Kobe, just opened a few weeks ago, the third in the regio...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Morocco Timber Mafia Threatens Water Supply By Feeling Cedars – Setting Up A Natural Disaster?

11:01 am in Business & Politics, deforestation, morocco, natural disasters, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

cedar bough photo photo: ankakay/Creative Commons Echoes of what contributed to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last summer: Illegal logging by a timber mafia ("a cedar mafia, an organized mafia") is felling so many of Morocco's iconic cedar trees that the nation's water supply is threatened due to erosion....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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