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KENYA: Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods
By Mary Kiio
NAIROBI - After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid.
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NEPAL: Communities Take Up Cudgels for Forest Conservation
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking stick aside and takes rest on a vast expanse of lush green land.
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ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Future of China’s Tiger Farms in the Balance
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - The road to the world’s first tiger summit in Vladivostok later this year will have to be paved with answers about the future of tiger farms in China and other East Asian countries, said conservationists.
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ENVIRONMENT: Invasion of the Little Green Molecules
By Elizabeth Grossman*
PORTLAND, Oregon - While the world's climate negotiators were getting ready for Copenhagen earlier this month, a meeting was taking place in Mumbai to discuss progress in green chemistry, a field that – like the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – has the potential to greatly enhance the world's environmental health and sustainability.
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ENVIRONMENT: Fishing in the Sewer
By Cam McGrath*
CAIRO - After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia.
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DEVELOPMENT: Filipino Communities Turn Trash Into Cash
By Ana Puod*
TAGUIG CITY, Philippines - Days after the New Year’s Eve revelry dies down, expect colorful lanterns or wreaths to remain hanging on the windows of many Filipino homes – part of a tradition in this South-east Asian country known to have the longest Yuletide celebration in the world.
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ENVIRONMENT-CONGO: Defence of Great Apes Begins With Children
By Arsène Severin *
BRAZZAVILLE - "But why do they kill gorillas, why do they trap them and put them in cages? One day, if i'm president, i'll stop all those who kill gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos," says 11-year-old Judicaëlle, a student at the Holy Sprit of Moungali School in Brazzaville.
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ENVIRONMENT-JAPAN: Solar Trend Catches Fire among Households
By Mutsuko Murakami*
TOKYO - The global community may have been dismayed by the outcome of the recently concluded climate change talks in Copenhagen, but Mami Naito, 42, is not about to put off dealing with this global phenomenon in her own small way. "We very much like the idea of joining the efforts to prevent global warming," says the mother of two.
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MADAGASCAR: Worrying Lapse in Forest Management
By Lova Rabary-Rakotondravony *
ANTANANARIVO - The illegal logging of precious wood rose sharply during the political crisis that gripped Madagascar during 2009. Forest communities, who could be part of the preservation of these resources, have been swept up in the rush for rosewood.
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ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Do-it-Yourself Renewable Energy Catches On
By Lowana Veal*
REYKJAVIK - When Innovation Centre Iceland (ICI) managers began courses in farming renewable energy in October they were unprepared for the enthusiastic response from citizens.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: From Dirty Fuels to Clean Technology
By Servaas van den Bosch
WINDHOEK - Tomorrow’s polluters are today’s emerging economies. To develop without retracing the polluting steps of the West, requires green technology, an expensive option for Africa.
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ENERGY-MEXICO: Big Plans for Ethanol from Algae
By Verónica Díaz Favela*
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican company BioFields will begin production in 2014 of an algae-based biofuel at a site 300 kilometres from its border with the United States, which is likely to be its biggest customer.
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INDIA: Climate Change Fuels Rural Out-Migration, Rising Farm Debt
By Manipadma Jena*
BHUBANESWAR, India - Under a shed made of bamboo and corrugated sheet metal, Purusottam Sur feeds his two bullocks and a cow with a bundle each of dry paddy plant. A fifth of his five-acre paddy harvest will be used only as cattle feed; the rice seeds just did not develop because of untimely rains this monsoon.
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