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Lyudmila Stayshyunayte - Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Today Information Agency

Climate change and food supply by Lyudmila Stayshyunayte, Uzbekistan

Have you ever wondered what our children and grandchildren will eat in 50 years? Will we have enough water to grow life’s essential crops? Erkin Karabaev, a farmer from Yangiyul in Uzbekistan, had to sow his main crop of cotton three times this year. The spring brought rain, but cotton requires four hot, dry months. The climate has noticeably changed in Uzebekistan over recent years. Some crops do not manage to ripen and others dry out. This year the seasons have shifted by 15-20 days. (…)

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Arpi Harutyunyan - ArmeniaTransitions on-line

A Chernobyl Cocktail in Kajaran by Arpi Harutyunyan, Armenia

The city of Kajaran in the Syunik Marz, Armenia, experiences an ‘earthquake’ measuring 3.0-4.0 on the Richter scale three or four times a week between 4.45 and 5.00 p.m. That’s when workers at the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Plant conduct explosions in the open-cast mines to extract ore for processing. The plant’s open-cast mine is about ten kilometers outside Kajaran, but the explosions there can be felt throughout the town and in outlying villages. (…)

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Roman Lebed - UkraineBritish Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Ukraine’s water crisis – Health crisis? Point of no return?by Roman Lebed, Ukraine

When it comes to water supply problems, we usually think of countries plagued by fatal water-borne diseases or those regions of the world constantly suffering from drought. But today Ukraine falls into the category of countries with low levels of water resources. It ranks among the lowest in Europe in terms of sufficiency of water supply and its water consumption per one unit of GDP exceeds that of its European neighbours several fold. (…)

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Adeline Marcos - Spain Spanish Scientific News Agency (SINC)

Spain fights climate change by Adeline Marcos, Spain

During the last two decades, extreme climate events have affected Spanish society more and more. Drought prevents people from irrigating their gardens and fields, fires consume Spanish forests, and people, especially the elderly, die from the heat. But this is just the beginning. Desertification is extending into Spanish territories. The Spanish Government has already started to worry. Now more than ever Spanish society needs to change to protect itself (…)

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Mette Sikjaer - Denmark Tandplejeren

Dental Amalgam – a Danish tale of restrictions and exceptionsby Mette Sikjaer, Denmark

In the beginning, the inhabitants on the small island only wondered slightly at the strange occurrences that started taking place around them. (…)For many years, mercury was widely used in Denmark – as in most other countries – as a component in the production of paper, sowing seeds, batteries, chloralkali, etc. By the beginning of the 1980s there was growing concern about the effect of mercury on the environment.

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