CLIMATE CHANGE By Mar 19 A Year On, Little Change in Political Climate - This time last year, United States federal legislation on climate change was starting to take shape, seemingly more pressing matters were taking up the bulk of U.S. policymakers' time, and a major climate conference was looming at the end of the year. MORE >>
KENYA By Mar 19 Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods - 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. MORE >>
NEPAL By Mar 19 Crippling Power Outages Throw Life Out of Gear - When it gets cold during Nepal’s winter nights, Yem Prasad Gurung turns on his heater run by liquefied petroleum gas. When it gets dark, he switches on the lights that rely on a solar inverter – and to make sure he gets water, he turns on a generator-powered water pump. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL By Mar 18 The Threat Posed by Livestock - The livestock industry has less economic clout than the oil industry, but ranchers say it has better arguments to defend itself from accusations regarding its share of responsibility for global warming. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE By Mar 18 The U.N.'s Boys' Club - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's decision to appoint a 19-member, all-male high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing (CCF) has triggered strong protests from women's groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) outraged by the composition of the panel. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT By Mar 18 Bad Water More Deadly Than War - Bad water kills more people than wars or earthquakes, declares Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). MORE >>
PERU By Mar 18 Priest on Campaign Trail Defrocked - A priest who is touring the country in his bid to run for president next year, at the head of a leftist movement, was indefinitely suspended by the Catholic Church for getting involved in politics. MORE >>
VIETNAM By Mar 18 Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta - He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT By Mar 17 Blame on Chinese Dams Rise as Mekong River Dries Up - As the water level in the Mekong River dips to a record 50-year low, a familiar pattern of fault-finding has risen to the surface. China, the regional giant through which parts of South-east Asia’s largest waterway flows through, is again at the receiving end of verbal salvoes from its neighbours. MORE >>
ENERGY-LATIN AMERICA By Mar 17 Moving Towards Renewables - Argentina is building its first solar energy park in the northwestern province of San Juan. The project calls for the manufacture of photovoltaic panels to supply the rest of the country and the other member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). MORE >>
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