Scientists Say Risk of Water Wars Rising
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The risk of wars being fought over water is rising because of explosive global population growth and widespread complacency, scientists said on Friday.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said.
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MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - While in other parts of the world, like the Middle   East, the struggle over water sources fuels armed conflicts, a  political war  is being waged in Spain over the same question.
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A novel plan to stop up a deadly upwelling of mud has the potential for added disaster, experts say.
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The world faces a surge in extreme weather events because of global warming and governments must act immediately to avert disaster, Britain's chief scientist said on Tuesday.
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By Mark K. Matthews The Orlando Sentinel  ORLANDO, Fla. (MCT) -- Recent changes on the surface of Mars resemble the effects of a flash flood, researchers said Wednesday, raising the likelihood that there is water bubbling up to the surface of the red planet.
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Blog: Some wet areas of earth will get wetter with climate change.
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WASHINGTON - Climate change is partly to blame for the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, where droughts have provoked fighting over water sources, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in an editorial published Saturday.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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Global warming is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world's oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet) by 2100, swamping homes from Bangladesh to Florida, the head of a study said on Tuesday.
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By Anonymous  A rising tide of sewage is threatening the health and wealth of far too many of the world's seas and oceans, says a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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A growing population coupled with diminishing fresh water supplies should force major changes in the way the world's farmers water their crops in the coming decades, a recent study recommends.
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Mountain glaciers, which act as the world's water towers, are shrinking at ever faster rates, threatening the livelihoods of millions of people and the future of countless species, a scientist said Thursday.
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A creeping rise in sea levels tied to global warming, pollution and damage to coral reefs may make coastlines even more vulnerable to disasters like tsunamis or storms in future, experts said Monday.
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By EASTON, Paul  NEW ZEALAND scientists have met at the University of Otago to explore the threat more acidic oceans might pose to the health of marine life.
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With a steady stream of bleak   predictions that "water wars" will be fought over dwindling   supplies in the 21st century, battles between two Sumerian   city-states 4,500 years ago seem to set a worrying precedent.