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ASIA, Mounting Costs of Climate Change Raise Fears of Conflict
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48679 By Ron Corben BANGKOK, Oct 1 (IPS) The rising challenge of climate change has raised fears of growing conflicts as the impact of more extreme weather triggers food water scarcities across the Asia ...
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AFRICA, Trees "vital for food security"
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85898 NAIROBI, 28 August 2009 (IRIN) Countries tackling food insecurity and climate change adaptation can greatly benefit from agroforestry integrating fleshy plants and trees into their farming systems, environmental specialists ...
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africa, agroforestry, environment, security, food
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UNITED NATIONS, Environmental demands grow for peacekeeping troops
http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/rss/2009/08/11/1 Nathanial Gronewold, staff reporter UNITED NATIONS Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit today to Goma, a city in the heart of the war ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is meant to draw attention to renewed U.S. ...
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Congo, As Go the Hippos ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/congoecology ON THE BLUEGRAY waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a pirogue and shakes his head. "Nothing," he says, glancing into the empty ...
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Landowners Still in Exile From Unstable Pakistan Area
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/asia/28swat.html?r=1&hp By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH Published: July 27, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one ...
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Climate change could redraw national borders
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/07/14/climatechangecouldredr awnationalborders/ By Eoin O'Carroll 07.14.09 In the past, national borders were determined by war, revolution, or, as is the case with many former colonies, someone in a pith helmet doodling on a map. But in the 21st century, the job could be done by global warming. For instance ...
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Twelve countries on climate change hit-list
http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=85179 JOHANNESBURG, 8 July 2009 (IRIN) The World Bank has made a list of the five main threats arising from climate change: droughts, floods, storms, rising sea levels, and greater uncertainty ...
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Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/world/29refugees.html?r=1 By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: May 28, 2009 UNITED NATIONS — With their boundless vistas of turquoise water framed by swaying coconut palms, the Carteret Islands northeast of the Papua New Guinea mainland might seem ...
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Warming and Death
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/warminganddeath/ May 29, 2009, 11:34 AM Warming and Death By ANDREW C. REVKIN There are significant questions about the robustness of the numbers at the heart of the new report estimating more than 300,000 deaths are already being caused ...
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BURUNDI A sharing approach to land disputes
http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84272 BUJUMBURA, 7 May 2009 (IRIN) Returning to Burundi after years as a refugee in Tanzania, Jonas Saya knew it would be difficult to reclaim his land from former neighbours who had settled ...
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