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BBC News
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The soaring cost of food is threatening millions of people in poor countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned.
Food prices have risen an unprecedented 40% in the last year and many nations may be unable to cope, th..
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BBC News
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by declining snow and ice cover as a result of global warming, a UN report has warned.
The risks facing people included losing access to drinking water, and rising sea levels, the study concluded...
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Yahoo News
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America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel. Automakers in Detroit have already built millions of cars, trucks and SUVs that can run on it, and are..
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New York Times
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WHEN Hollywood filmmakers want to heighten the tension of an insect fear film, they just arrange for millions of killer bees to appear out of nowhere to threaten a vulnerable group of people — over the years, these have included children in a school bus..
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