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Bitter-Sweet Harvest Afghanistan's New War (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
AFGHANISTAN: Poppy eradication: The issues, the players and the strategies http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=21&ReportId=63018 <A href="http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=21&ReportId=62938/ " target="new"><IMG align="right" border="0" height="250 ...
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Arab forum aims to study, combat climate change (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?editionid=1&categid=1&articleid=875 53 25 professors to lead initiative By Tamara Qiblawi Special to The Daily Star Tuesday, December 18, 2007 BEIRUT: The American University of Beirut (AUB) hosted a conference over ...
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Lebanese dump has stench of environmental neglect (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
10 Dec 2007 00:04:34 GMT Source: Reuters http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04657868.htm&nbsp; By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent SIDON, Lebanon, Dec 10 (Reuters) Every day bulldozers pile more garbage on to a mountain ...
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The strange, slow-motion disaster of the mud volcano (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1128/p01s04woap.htmlBy Simon Montlake Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the November 28, 2007 edition PORONG, INDONESIA On one side of the levee, a line of trucks waits on a clogged, twolane road under a broiling sun. On the other, a vast lake ...
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After Cyclone, Bangladesh Faces Political Storm (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
SOMINI SENGUPTA Published: November 26, 2007 &nbsp; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/world/asia/26bangladesh.html?ref=world&nb sp;DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 24 The political storm that preceded nature's latest assault on this country still swirls overhead. Nearly a year into an ...
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Stemming the blood behind the diamonds. (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
FT REPORT WATCHES & JEWELLERY 2007 By MARIA DOULTON 10 November 2007 Surveys WJC1 Page 18 With a US embargo on Burmese diamonds, horror stories of "dirty gold" and the forthcoming film Blood Diamond , in which stones are the currency of war ...
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West Africa now key cocaine hub for Europe (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Tristan McConnell \ Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1123/p06s01woaf.html from the November 23, 2007 edition Accra, Ghana Two British highschool girls now face three years in a juvenile detention center in the West African country ...
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Top scientist urges population curbs (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.pushjournal.org/NewsCent/Default.cfm?eid=ecsp&article=89345 HALTING population growth in developing countries should be part of a global strategy to reduce mankind's impact on the environment, according to an eminent expatriate Australian scientist. Immediate past president of the Royal ...
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Cyclone disaster toll climbs (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Still recovering from its summer floods, Bangladesh faces another grim struggle after a storm that killed at least 1,700 people Amelia Gentleman in New Delhi Sunday November 18, 2007 The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0 ...
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The Future Is Drying Up (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
JON GERTNER Published: October 21, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21watert.html?pagewanted=1&r=1&r ef=magazine Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global ...
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