World carbon dioxide levels highest for 650,000 years

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Spain ships water into Barcelona to help alleviate drought

Spain’s worst drought in decades forced the proud city of Barcelona to start shipping in drinking water Tuesday, an unprecedented step that business leaders bemoan as a public relations nightmare for one of Europe’s top tourist destinations.
A Panamanian-flagged tanker loaded with water docked in Spain’s second-largest city, launching a mission by an emergency, six-vessel flotilla [...]

Roots of Haiti’s food crisis run deep

Although her countrymen can no longer afford the imported rice that has come to dominate their diet, Josiane Desjardin sees little hope of reviving the domestic crop that once grew abundantly in the fertile estuary of the Artibonite River.
There’s no turning back the clock, farmers here say dejectedly, in a countryside ravaged by floods, soil [...]

Rural poverty in Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America after Haiti.
Poverty is largely a rural problem in Nicaragua, although there are pockets of poverty in the capital, Managua, and in other urban areas. Close to half (43 per cent) of the people in Nicaragua live in rural areas. Two out of three of them (68 [...]

Backing for ethanol boost evaporates

Corn farmers counting on a big federal push for biofuels could soon be disappointed as, one by one, opposition parties are pulling their support for government legislation boosting ethanol content in Canadian gasoline.
Citing concern over soaring food prices, the Bloc Québécois is confirming it will vote against the bill when it comes to a final [...]