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Housing design can buffer spread of TB in Haiti - campaigners
LONDON (AlertNet) - What do the walls of your house have to do with your health? Quite a lot if you live in a place like Haiti, say the organisers of a campaign promoting housing designs that reduce the spread of airborne diseases. The charity, Architectur
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The difference between climate hazards and climate disasters
Many claims are made that climate change is increasing disasters, particularly water and weather-related disasters such as floods, hurricanes and heat waves. But such claims make a basic scientific error: Weather hazards and disasters are not the same thin
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Life in the path of cyclones
One year after Cyclone Aila struck the southeastern coast of Bangladesh, many areas remain under water.
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Cyclone Aila survivors fear the impending monsoon
Malini Morzaria works for the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO) based in New Delhi, India. She covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives By Malini Morzaria
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Is "intelligent food aid" enough to tackle hunger?
LONDON (AlertNet) - Cash vouchers, nutritionally enriched food, a new focus on the under-twos, buying from local markets - these initiatives are all part of a "pretty dramatic" transformation in the way the World Food Programme (WFP) is tackling hunger, th
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Aid agencies must learn to take the flak - WFP/AlertNet debate
The pressure is on for aid agencies - including the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) - to be more open about when things go wrong. Journalists and relief workers agreed at a debate in London on Friday, organised by WFP and AlertNet, that humanitarian organi
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G-20 misses opportunity to tackle worlds dependence on fossil fuels
The oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico should have been a call to action for the G-20 leaders meeting in Toronto to take serious and immediate steps toward reducing the world's dependence on fossil fuels and to encourage a more rapid move to clean energy t
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Fast-start funding shaping up, but using it effectively will take work - study
At Copenhagen, wealthy nations promised developing countries $30 billion in 'fast start' assistance from 2010 to 2012 to help them adapt to the effects of climate change and try to minimize their own emissions of greenhouse gases. Is the money coming? A ne
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The numbers are adding up - except the important ones
The climate change talks are all about numbers: how much to reduceemissions, how much to pay developing countries in climate aid? Yet while pinpointing these vital figures remains elusive, the spiraling costs of hosting the meetings is adding up. Ten is t
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BLOG-Little progress on Colombias displacement crisis during Uribe government
BOGOTA (AlertNet) - A sharp fall in kidnapping and murder rates along with heavy losses suffered by the FARC have made Colombian President Alvaro Uribe the most popular leader in his country's history. But while many Colombians credit the hardliner with sa
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