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Still riding high on Newsweek’s ranking as the best place to live in the world, Finland has received a less-tangible honour: being rated as having the...
made popular Aug 19 2010
Niger is now facing the worst hunger crisis in its history, the UN’s World Food Programme says, with almost half the population - or 7.3 million people - in...
made popular Aug 16 2010
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today said it is boosting the delivery of aid to Niger, where up to eight million people are experiencing severe food...
made popular Jul 21 2010
Bolivian government Wednesday declared a national emergency for the ongoing drought that has caused huge damage to the agriculture and livestock in many...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Only five years after a severe food shortage north-central Africa is again fearing the worst before the September harvest, with 10 million people threatened in this...
made popular Jun 11 2010
BET, the acronym for the three northern regions of Chad - Borkou, Ennedi and Tibesti - comes up regularly in meetings of international aid agencies frustrated by the...
made popular Jun 10 2010
A severe drought is causing increasing hunger across the Eastern Sahel in west Africa, affecting 10 million people in four countries, aid agencies warned today. In...
made popular Jun 4 2010
Nearly a dozen forest fires raged out of control on Friday in central Quebec as firefighters from across the continent arrived to help in the containment efforts that...
made popular Jun 1 2010
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez decreed an “electrical emergency in the country” after noting that the water levels at the dams where hydroelectric plants are...
made popular Feb 11 2010
Around this time of the year last year, I wrote about heavy rainfall which saved Jordan from announcing a state of drought. However, this year is a bit different, in a...
made popular Feb 8 2010
The number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million, the UN’s World Food Programme says.
The WFP wants to...
made popular Feb 3 2010
Colombia declared raging forest fires to be a national disaster on Thursday and said it will get equipment from the United States to help douse the flames, further...
made popular Jan 8 2010
Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She...
made popular Dec 14 2009
Authorities predict that Colombia’s current drought will be particularly severe due to the “El Niño” effect, while water rationing has already begun...
made popular Dec 12 2009
The Arab states are responsible for less than 5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions, but according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED),...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Temperature in Uganda will rose up to 1.5 degree Celsius over the next two decades. Its damaging agriculture and livelihood of whole communities, according population...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Mexico and Climate Change
With heavily polluting oil industry, heavy use of road transport, and 110 million people, Mexico accounts for about 1.5% of global emissions....
made popular Dec 10 2009
She stops for long stretches, lost in thought, trying to make sense of how she’s been left half a person.
Sunita, 18, who requested that her family name not be...
made popular Dec 1 2009
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Being a Kenyan citizen, sometimes I wonder what would bring an end to the elusive drought that has claimed quite a number of lives as well as animals. I would be quick...
made popular Oct 28 2009
The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country’s long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food...
made popular Oct 26 2009
1.02 billion people have gone hungry this year, according to a report released this year. This comes at a time when several regions in East Africa are threatened by...
made popular Oct 23 2009
President Felipe Calderon and the National Water Commission recently launched a new campaign in dire effort to raise critical awareness in water conservation.
Mexico...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...
made popular Oct 15 2009
I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...
made popular Oct 14 2009
It is of course nature’s fury, whether it is the drought due to poor monsoons or the states of AP and Karnataka inundated under floods waters.
But just imagine, if...
made popular Oct 5 2009
Vast lakes have shriveled. River beds have run dry. The animals are sick, the birds have flown elsewhere and an ancient way of life is facing a new threat to its...
made popular Sep 25 2009
A cattle-rustling attack in central Kenya has left 32 people dead, including three women and eight children, the Kenya Red Cross said.
Al least 400 raiders attacked a...
made popular Sep 17 2009
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday left Ludhiana as he had come by train, joining top leaders of the party enforcing austerity measures amid a drought....
made popular Sep 16 2009
It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in...
made popular Sep 12 2009
During five year drought in Bundelkhand, nearly fifty percent of its total population had migrated to metro cities like Delhi & Mumbai. In search of their...
made popular Sep 12 2009
The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor,...
made popular Sep 9 2009
The mist hangs thickly over rolling hills covered with a green patchwork of thigh-high tea bushes. Workers wearing boots and aprons move methodically through the...
made popular Sep 8 2009
In addition to the Global recession as well as the plummet in exports and cascading effects on the economy due to the International squeeze on liquidity and depression...
made popular Aug 12 2009
UP Chief minister demands Rs 500 crore plus for more statues and monuments even as 47 drought hit districts in UP are earmaked a paltry Rs 250 crores for drought...
made popular Aug 4 2009
The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising...
made popular Sep 1 2009
Dreams came true this weekend for Jordanians working in the agricultural sector, as weather reports were pretty accurate, and rain fell down, accompanied with...
made popular Feb 24 2009
Millions of residents of Mexico City are facing realities: “water is life, treasure it or it will be gone.” as the city shuts down main pipelines due to...
made popular Feb 3 2009
What has come together in the ‘horn of Africa’ was been described by the UN’s World Food Program(WFP) as the ‘tragedy of the decade’.
In...
made popular Nov 4 2008
What do you do when you’re an African nation which relies nearly entirely on hydro power for your electricity, and you’re in the middle of a drought? If you’re...
made popular Oct 11 2008
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Officials of the Yongdam municipal government and residents pray for rain in a traditional ritual amid a drought that has affected most of the country in Jinan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. With the country suffering from the...
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