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WHO assists in disease surveillance and medical supplies during Kosi river floods (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
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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PAKISTAN High-tech survey tool offers new hope to disaster-hit communities (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79760 KARACHI, 12 August 2008 (IRIN) The sight of humanitarian assessment teams moving through calamityhit villages and punching data into small, handheld computers as they interview villagers may soon become routine in Pakistan ...
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Africa, New Technology to Sever Timber's Link to Conflict? (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://allafrica.com/stories/200808080580.html Inter Press Service (Johannesburg) 8 August 2008 Posted to the web 8 August 2008 Michael Deibert New York While conflict diamonds or blood diamonds, as they are known, have gained attention the world over ...
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New "carbon revolution" urged to slow warming (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: , The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Published June 27, 2008 09:19 AM The world needs a shift as radical as the Industrial Revolution to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 while safeguarding economic growth, the McKinsey ...
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Barcelona floats creative solution to water crisis (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Lisa Abend \ Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / May 15, 2008 edition http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/05/15/barcelonafloatscreativ esolutiontowatercrisis/ With Spain's average rainfall down 40 percent last year, many cities have restricted residents from filling their swimming pools ...
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UN, Google to map global conflict regions (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Patrick McGroarty Friday, April 11 2008 Source: Daily Times A new partnership between the UN refugee agency and Google allows users of Google Earth search tool to track refugees in global conflict regions. Nearly 35 million ...
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Mideast can avert impending water crisis, World Bank (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: Reuters Published April 11, 2008 09:05 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/34492 RABAT (Reuters) The Middle East is overusing limited water resources and the amount of water available per head will halve by 2050, leading to social ...
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Yemen sleepwalks into water nightmare (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
From: Reuters Published March 1, 2008 07:26 PM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/32096 By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent BEIT HUJAIRA, Yemen (Reuters) Blackclad women trudge across a stony plateau in the Yemeni highlands to haul ...
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U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: November 17, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/science/earth/17cndclimate.html?r=1&hp&or ef=slogin  See Full Report 171107ipcc4.pdf  VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 17 Secretary General Ban Kimoon, describing climate change ...
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Thinkers gather to act on world problems (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
ByGregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the October 22, 2007 edition http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1022/p25s01sten.html  Pop\!Tech conference in Camden, Maine, aims to harness synergy to tackle issues. Camden, Maine Pop!Tech ...
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