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CDC Sets Threat Levels for Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Wed, 2013-09-18 17:17 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

CDC - cnn.com - by Miriam Falco - September 17, 2013

(CNN) -- Health officials have been warning us about antibiotic overuse and drug-resistant "superbugs" for a long time. But today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm in a new way.

For the first time, the CDC is categorizing drug-resistant superbugs by threat level.

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Press Release - Centers for Disease Control - Untreatable: Today’s Drug-Resistant Health Threats
http://www.cdc.gov/media/dpk/2013/dpk-untreatable.html

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WaterWorld

Mon, 2013-09-16 16:19 — gl

submitted by Albert Gomez

WaterWorld Magazine is dedicated to delivering up-to-date information on technology, products and trends in the water and wastewater industry. Monthly editorial topics include: energy management, biosolids treatment and disposal, chemicals, pipe maintenance and repairs, privatization and contract O&M, stormwater management, computers and automation technology, corrosion control and various show previews of industry events. 

This online resource provides daily international business and industry-related news, current issue articles, and access to years of searchable editorial archives. Check the calendar of events for the next industry-related conference, or refer to the Product Guide for vendor, product and service information. 

Bookmark this site as your premier source for up-to-the-minute information and research on the water, wastewater and waste industry.

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World Bank Issues Regional Health Reports

Fri, 2013-09-13 18:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

Hassana Ousmane rests her head against the bed where her 21-month-old daughter, Zeinab, suffering from malaria, rests at the Princess Marie Louise Children's Hospital in Accra, Ghana, April 25, 2012.

CLICK HERE - World Bank - Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy

voanews.com - by Joe DeCapua - September 12, 2013

The World Bank has released new reports outlining the health challenges facing six major regions. Those challenges include not only many types of disease, but road accidents as well. The bank says the reports will help policymakers develop evidence-based health programs after the Millennium Development Goals expire.

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World Bank - Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/health/publication/global-burden-of-disease-generating-evidence-guiding-policy

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Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective

Sat, 2013-09-07 00:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

ncdc.noaa.gov - September 5, 2013

Human influences are having an impact on some extreme weather and climate events, according to the report Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 from a Climate Perspective released September 5, 2013 by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Scientists from NOAA served as three of the four lead editors on the report. Overall, 18 different research teams from around the world contributed to the peer-reviewed report that examined the causes of 12 extreme events that occurred on five continents and in the Arctic.

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Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium - Flagship Programmes

Tue, 2013-08-20 23:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Santosh Dahal

Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium - Flagship Programmes
http://www.flagship2.nrrc.org.np/nepal-risk-reduction-consortium-flagship-programmes

Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium - Flagship Programmes (126 page .PDF file)
http://www.flagship2.nrrc.org.np/sites/default/files/knowledge/NRRC_Flagship%20Programmes%20%28For%20Web%29_19%20Mar%202013-1.pdf

Overview

The Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium (NRRC) is a Unique arrangement that unites humanitarian and development partners with financial institutions in partnership with the Government of Nepal in order to reduce Nepal's vulnerability to natural disasters. Based on the Hyogo Framework and Nepal's National Strategy for Disaster Risk Management, the NRRC has identified 5 flagship priorities for sustainable disaster risk management.

http://www.un.org.np/coordinationmechanism/nrrc

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Nepal: Strategic Program for Climate Resilience

Tue, 2013-08-20 23:07 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

submitted by Santosh Dahal

Nepal: Strategic Program for Climate Resilience (114 page .PDF file)
http://www.ppcrnepal.gov.np/files-download/SPCR%20Doc_final%20version.pdf

ppcrnepal.gov.np

Strategic Program for Climate Resilienc (SPCR) is a key process towards translating the main objective of PPCR to initiate transformation in the approach to development planning, budgeting and investments so as to include consideration of climate resilience. The Strategic Program will outline the Government of Nepal's agreed long-term vision to achieve a climate resilient development trajectory and a critical path to get there.

http://www.ppcrnepal.gov.np/

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Using the Maya Nut Tree to Increase Tropical Agroecosystem Resilience to Climate Change in Central America and Mexico

Tue, 2013-08-13 17:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Albert Gomez

elanadapt.net - pelicanweb.org - August 2011

CLICK HERE - CASE STUDY - Using the Maya Nut Tree to Increase Tropical Agroecosystem Resilience to Climate Change in Central America and Mexico
(10 page .PDF file)

Author affiliations: 1 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2 The Maya Nut Institute

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NOAA - State of the Climate in 2012

Wed, 2013-08-07 17:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

noaa.gov - August 2013

CLICK HERE - Highlights

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
CLICK HERE - State of the Climate in 2012

CLICK HERE - State of the Climate in 2012
(258 page .PDF report)

2012 was one of the 10 warmest years on record globally

The end of weak La Niña, unprecedented Arctic warmth influenced 2012 climate conditions

August 6, 2013

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Seaside Resorts Are Dumping Ground For Vulnerable People, Report Warns

Tue, 2013-08-06 15:34 — Kathy Gilbeaux

          

Margate has one of the highest shop vacancy rates

huffingtonpost.co.uk - August 5, 2013

Britain's once-proud seaside resorts have become 'dumping grounds' for hard-up people and benefit claimants, according to an influential think thank.

The Centre for Social Justice, founded by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, said former hotels were now used as cheap housing for vulnerable people in towns suffering from 'severe social breakdown'.

Towns like Blackpool and Margate were tourism hotspots in their heyday but as visitor numbers have dried up they are now racked with deprivation.

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Japan Nuclear Body Says Radioactive Water at Fukushima an Emergency

Tue, 2013-08-06 09:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

         

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reuters.com - by Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito - TOKYO | Aug 5, 2013

(Reuters) - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters.

Countermeasures planned by Tokyo Electric Power Co are only a temporary solution, he said.

Tepco's "sense of crisis is weak," Kinjo said. "This is why you can't just leave it up to Tepco alone" to grapple with the ongoing disaster.

"Right now, we have an emergency," he said.

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