International organizations help mitigate climate change related risks in Tajikistan - 24 Oct 2011  
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A project in the mountainous regions of Tajikistan is launched in October 2011 thanks to donations totaling nearly US$1 million each from the Swiss and British governments, together with support from the Aga Khan Development Network and German non-governmental aid agency Help World Hunger, to reduce the risk of glacial lake outburst floods due to accelerated glacial melt resulting from climate change.

http://news.tj/en/news/international-organizations-help-mitigate-climate-change-related-risks-tajikistan

On October 15, 2011, Governor Jorge Herrera Caldera of Durango state in Mexico issued a hunger alert, with a collection drive to assist 60,000 rural residents facing food shortages due to prolonged drought in the region.

http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=389235&Itemid=1
http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/alertaporhambrunaendurangoobligaalarecolecciondeviveres-1123542.html

Published in the October 2011 peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, a new study by researchers in Singapore warns that rising global temperatures are shrinking the body size of many animal and plant species over multiple generations.

http://www.france24.com/en/20111016-climate-change-downsizing-fauna-flora-study
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/17/world/asia/shrinking-species-global-warming/