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A China Eastern Airlines plane (L) taxis near a Chinese C919 passenger jet before its scheduled first flight at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai on May 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO
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A garbage dumpsite in Paranaque city, Manila (Photo: Reuters/Romeo Ranoco)
UN Says Climate Change Aggravates Global Hunger
Hunger is on the rise again thanks in part to climate change aggravating severe weather and conflicts in the world, the United Nations reported on Friday. Some 815 million people, or 11 percent of the world’s population, were chronically undernourished in 2016,...Caption:
Four days can do a lot of damage. Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Another Way Climate Change Might Make Hurricanes Worse
In a recent talk about his new book, “Scale,” physicist Geoffrey West described climate change as a form of entropy –- disorder that’s created as the price of all the order and creative energy pent up in cities. In this view, climate change is not, as some argue, just...Caption:
Smoke is released into the sky at a refinery in Wilmington, California. (Reuters)
Climate Change Threatens Protein Deficiency, Global Famine
London – Climate change is draining crops of protein and therefore creating a famine threat around the world, according to two separate studies published on Wednesday. Protein deficiency In a first of its kind step, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,...Caption:
Global warming caused by climate change will result in difficulties for aircraft during takeoff, a US study said. (AFP)