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Researchers pinpoint climate change 'hotspots'
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Early warning systems fail to shape humanitarian response
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=80304 NAIROBI, 11 September 2008 (IRIN) Oxford Analytica analyses humanitarian early warning systems in Early warning gains momentum dated 5 September. In the report, Oxford Analytica notes that significant advances ...
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WHO assists in disease surveillance and medical supplies during Kosi river floods
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http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI7J8LY8?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P New Delhi 6, September 2008: The World Health Organization is working closely with the governments of India and Nepal to minimize the risk of disease outbreaks and provide basic healthcare for the millions affected ...
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DRC- Tension on the rise in Katanga mining town
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80048 KINSHASA, 28 August 2008 (IRIN) Human rights and local government officials in Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province have expressed concern about rising tension between different communities in a mining ...
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Climate-Change Program to Aid Poor Nations Is Shut
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/science/earth/07climate.html?ref=us\\ By ANDREW C. REVKIN Published: August 6, 2008 The National Center for Atmospheric Research, an important hub for work on the causes and consequences of climate change, has shut down a program focused ...
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Art Lerner-Lam, Seven Questions, When Disaster Strikes
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http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?storyid=4313 Another week, another deadly natural disaster. China is struggling to dig survivors out from its worst natural disaster in three decades, and Burma's cyclone death toll continues to spiral ...
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Myanmar Farmers May Miss Harvest
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/world/asia/16myanmar.html?r=1&hp&oref=slo gin By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: May 16, 2008 YANGON, Myanmar Normally, at this time of year, Burmese farmers in the southern delta of Myanmar would be draining their rice paddies, plowing ...
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Mexicans Ask Where Flood Aid Went
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Corruption, Incompetence Alleged After Devastating Downpours http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111800 962.html By Manuel RoigFranzia Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, November 19, 2007; Page A12\\ MEXICO CITY \\ Long before the devastating flooding ...
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Six places in the world where climate change could cause political turmoil
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From Nepal to Nigeria, Indonesia to the Arctic Circle, a warmer world poses different problems.ByMark Sappenfieldfrom the December 6, 2007 edition Nepal: Unforeseen flash point When it came to climate change fueling conflict, "Nepal was not on people's watch list ...
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Global System Could Cut Disaster Toll by 2018
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http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/45618/story.htm SOUTH AFRICA: November 29, 2007 \\ \\ {}CAPE TOWN A global satellite system should come on line next decade, potentially saving billions of dollars and thousands of lives by boosting preparedness for natural disasters ...
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