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 Paris (AFP) Sept 20, 2009 
Two-thirds of the world's major deltas, home to nearly half a billion people, are caught in the scissors of sinking land and rising seas, according to a study published Sunday. The new findings, based on satellite images, show that 85 percent of the 33 largest delta regions experienced severe flooding over the past decade, affecting 260,000 square kilometres (100,000 square miles). ... read more
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 19, 2009Turkey has agreed to up the flow of water along the Euphrates river to Iraq for a month, Baghdad said Saturday, amid tensions between the two sides over distribution of the precious commodity. The agreement came after talks in Istanbul involving Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and Turkish Environment Minister Veysel Eroglu, following a months-long war of words between Baghdad and ... more |
Education for girls hit hard by India's drying wells
Press Release from Business Wire: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. Haitian gangs getting rich off murky market for baby eels Climate talks run into night as COP30 hosts seek breakthrough Pope decries lack of political will on climate change Two dead in northern Italy mudslide: firefighters 'In it to win it': Australia doubles down on climate hosting bid New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life COP30 by the numbers One dead in northern Italy mudslide: firefighters 
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Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2009World leaders converge on New York and Pittsburgh this week for pivotal talks in the two-year effort to remake global climate rules, with success far from assured. In New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon opens a top-level "Climate Summit" on Monday, kicking off a week peppered with policy debates, meetings and the informal chatter of diplomats attempting to zero in on a deal. ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Sept 18, 2009Production of swine flu vaccines will fall "substantially" short of the amount needed to protect the global population, the World Health Organisation warned Friday as the pandemic death toll rose. "Current supplies of pandemic vaccine are inadequate for a world population in which virtually everyone is susceptible to infection by a new and readily contagious virus," WHO director general ... more  
Rolla MO (SPX) Sep 21, 2009Cheaper. Better. Faster. Most people will say you can't have all three. But don't tell that to Dr. Jianmin Wang, a professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Wang has created a wastewater system "in a box." Each system, built by re-purposing a shipping container, is low power, low maintenance and highly efficient. ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 20, 2009Top of the agenda for the World Health Organization's Western Pacific meeting this week will be how to combat the swine flu pandemic in developing nations. There are growing fears that poorer countries will not get enough vaccines, despite a pledge last week by the United States and eight other nations to make 10 percent of their swine flu vaccine supply available to others in need. ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Sept 18, 2009Russia on Friday unloaded evidence from the Arctic Sea ship onto a Russian warship, as mystery still surrounded the identity of its cargo one month after it was recovered from alleged pirates. Russian investigators said evidence, including arms and masks which showed the vessel was prey to piracy, was now on its way to Russia for use in a trial against the suspected hijackers. ... more  
Maseno, Kenya (AFP) Sept 20, 2009Long vilified as sorcerers, Kenya's Nganyi rainmakers -- with meteorological equipment consisting of trees, pots and herbs -- are being enlisted to mitigate the effects of climate change. Kneeling in the dank shade of a small coppice near Maseno, in western Kenya, Alexander Okonda blows through a reed into a pot embedded in a tree hollow and containing a secret mixture of sacred water and ... more |
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