| Thu, 17 May 2012 Summit must focus on food security
(Souce: China Daily) | By Shenggen Fan | BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhuanet) -- As the G8 leaders meet in the United States this week, agriculture and food security must be at the forefront of the discussions, and ways to prevent price volatility, including halting grain-bas... | Parts of Japan see record-high CO2 levels
| The average monthly concentration of carbon dioxide has topped 400 parts per million in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, the first time this level has been reached in Japan, raising alarm about greenhouse gases that can cause global warming. | The Japan Meteorological Agenc... | Walk to End Genocide
| Right now, they're still alive. | 400,000 Nuba civilians have been trapped in the mountainous regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan since June 2011, on the brink of a government-orchestrated famine. The Khartoum regime has intentionally cut them off ... | Weekend weather forecast for Houston Texas and vicinity, Friday, May 18, 2012
| Discussion In an ENSO-neutral spring and summer (that is, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean close to seasonal normals), it is hard to come by extreme heat or cold. You may have noticed that in comparison to the last two La Nina-dominated warm seasons,... | Weather History: May 18: Record temps, storms, tornadoes, wind & Mt. St. Helens
| Meteorological events that happened on May 18th: | 1825 | A tornado, said to have crossed the entire state of Ohio smashed into the log cabin settlement of Burlington, northeast of Columbus reportedly destroying the entire town. | 1883 | The fifth deadliest tornado ou... | Khalilian: Iran ready to share experience in uplifting food security standards
Rome, May 18, IRNA – Minister of Agricultural Jihad, Sadegh Khalilian, on Thursday voiced Iran’s preparedness to put its experience at the disposal of regional states for upgrading world and regional food security and living standards. | Addressing the 31st FAO Conf... | Accuracy rate for tornado predictions lower than 10%
| The Meteorological Agency said Thursday that its accuracy rate for predicting tornados was less than 10 percent between 2008 and 2012. | The agency issued 1,446 tornado warnings between March 2008 and May 2012. During the four years, the best rate was a mere 9 percent... | MoA signed for funding
| By MELISSA MARTIN | The Papua New Guinea Government through the Office of Climate Change and Development has received over K13 million Adaptation Funds for Climate Change related risks from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). | The UNDP and the OCCD yeste... | |
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