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Climate change ‘fights’ farmers in Northern Ghana
Posted by GNA: Albert Oppong-Ansah on December 31st, 2011
GNA: “Rice production to reduce by 36 per cent, farmers abandoned their fields due to lack of rains”
Thousands of people in the southern part of Ghana wailed when they lost properties worth several millions of Ghana Cedis and 14 human lives following a seven hour torrential rainfall in October this year.
The devastating flood cut-off electricity and telecommunication supply in many areas and forced the closure of schools and shops in the Accra and Tema metropolitan areas.
When stakeholder met...
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How to head off climate-change ruin in Asia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 31st, 2011
Bangkok Post: Rising, warming and increasingly acidic seas threaten the very survival of Pacific island countries.
The retreat of glaciers and snowfields in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau jeopardise these "water towers" on which one billion Asians depend for dry season and drought year flows.
More than 450 million Asians live within the low-elevation coastal zone, including almost 20% of the region's urban residents.
There's no question the scale of climate challenges facing Asia and the Pacific is...