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Nile Dam Talks: Preliminary Agreement
March 6th, 2015

Via Reuters, a report on the three-party discussions over the Renaissance Dam: The three main countries that share the Nile River’s waters have reached a preliminary agreement on a mechanism for operating the Renaissance Dam, the Egyptian water minister said on Friday. The planned $4 billion Renaissance Dam will be Africa’s biggest dam and aims […]

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Drought: Trigger For Syria’s Civil War?
March 3rd, 2015

Via Mashable, a detailed look at how global warming sparked Syria’s civil war: Manmade global warming helped spark the brutal civil war in Syria by doubling to tripling the odds that a crippling drought in the Fertile Crescent would occur shortly before the fighting broke out, according to a groundbreaking new study published on March […]

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