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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Alex Haxton is CEO of World Emergency Relief UK (WER), an international relief and development organisation working to protect poor children all over the world. He recently visited Haiti to evaluate the ongoing WER response to the earthquake. Poor sanitati

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Getting evidence of long-term temperature changes is hard work. Weather stations change location over the decades, and readings from once-rural recording stations are affected by the shade-throwing buildings or heat-trapping tarmac roads built around them.

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

I noticed that inhabitants of Niamey ate a lot of grilled goat or sheep meat. A friend invited me to one of these joints where I savoured African-style barbecued goat. Since I was in Niamey to cover the food crisis which also involved a deficit of 16 milli

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:48 PM

By Si Thu, Myanmar Red Cross, and Lasse Norgaard, IFRC Cyclone Nargis was named after the Urdu word for daffodil. In Myanmar, the name of the devastating cyclone has a more mortal meaning. "Nar" means pain, and "gis" means messed up. Millions of lives were

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:48 PM

In the Boston Globe today, columnist Jeff Jacoby asks an interesting question: "Why aren't democratic dissidents as well-known in the free world today as the dissidents who challenged the Soviet empire were in the 1970s and 1980s?" But the answers offered

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:48 PM

This blog is written by Nouria Brikci, Health and Policy Advisor April 27, 2010, will be remembered as a special day in, and for, Sierra Leone. Not only because April 27 is independence day, but also and most importantly because it is the day that going to

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:48 PM

I'm on the plane back to the United States, flying at 29,000 feet over the Amazon. A green carpet of trees, only interrupted by winding veins of brown rivers, stretches to the horizon. From time to time where a larger river appears, a small cluster of buil

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Bolivia hosted a major climate change summit this week, but it was hard to tell that from the headlines of Latin America's major media. The four-day event, the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, hosted by Bolivian P

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Twitter has increasingly been used to spread awareness about humanitarian issues and to raise funds to help people affected by disasters. But it can be hard to find the right feeds in the flood of daily tweets, so website Online Degree

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:47 PM

Could climate change be triggering more geological activity? In an article this week in the Guardian, British scientists say changes in glacier melt, snowfall and storms might redistribute enough weight on the earth's surface to potentially trigger geologi