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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

When a massive earthquake struck Haiti in January, disaster-relief organisations like the American Red Cross received tweets from people trapped under buildings. But these short messages sent via the microblogging service Twitter created a conundrum for th

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

DAKAR (AlertNet) - Seynabou Diakate looked at the dark clouds above and quickened her pace to catch a bus for Pikine, the suburb of a million inhabitants east of Senegal's capital Dakar. "I must run, else if the rain meets me here I will not be able to ent

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

The island of New Guinea, which is shared by Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua, supports the world's third-largest continuous tropical rainforest after the Amazon and the Congo Basin. The forests of Papua Province however are under seri

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Last month, Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive visited Florida to attract potential foreign investors to help rebuild the earthquake-ravaged nation. He encouraged international textile firms to set up shop in Haiti and touted the country's infrastru

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:48 PM

Long-established customs, traditional beliefs and behaviour dictated by gender, ethnicity, caste and age - all these can stop people getting to grips with the challenges of climate change. But this has yet to be well recognised or investigated, says a pape

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Climate change is related to human survival and development, and to the future of our common home, the planet Earth. Addressing climate change is a high priority for the Chinese government, which has implemented a series of policies and actions to that end

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi Tel Aviv is calling on creative minds to help Israelis and Palestinians to resolve their dispute, an objective that political leaders on both sides have so far failed to achieve in 60 years of conflict. Entitled "The Impossi