Haiti earthquake: views from the aid world
By Maria Caspani LONDON (AlertNet) - Two weeks after a powerful earthquake killed as many as 200,000 Haitians, hopes of pulling more people alive from under the rubble are fading rapidly and the international relief effort is focused on getting help to hun
Majority decision making could save climate talks - analyst
If the U.N. climate negotiations seem to increasingly resemble the perpetually mired World Trade Organization talks, there's good reason: There's a lot of money at stake. A new climate deal could set the ground rules for the "largest distribution of resour
Drought driving rise in urban agriculture in Zimbabwe
The capital Harare, with its rich soil and location on a watershed plateau between two rivers, continues to entice communal farmers trying to escape losses from persistent droughts and erratic rainfall