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Inuit of Greenland have weather on their side
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 2nd, 2010
Globe and Mail: Such sunny days have lately become increasingly common in Nuuk, whose 15,000 people represent a quarter of Greenland's population, most of the rest scattered in tiny villages along a vast, roadless shoreline that encircles the ice sheet covering most of this semi-independent country. That sheet, three kilometres thick at its centre, is melting fast, as are the ice fields that surround Greenland's north. To the rest of the world, that melting appears to be the greatest problem of our ...
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Across Asia, dengue fever cases reach record highs
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 2nd, 2010
Time: On the way back from a morning run up the mountain on Koh Phangan island, Natalie Revie felt something was wrong. It was not just fatigue. "I felt my back had collapsed. Any strength or power I had there was gone completely," recalls Revie, a freelance writer from England who lives in Thailand. "I felt my legs and hips belonged to a dingly, dangly scarecrow." Revie, 30, stayed in bed the rest of the day, but she went from bad to worse. Her bones were aching all over, and she was ...
Pakistan: Bin Laden goes green to exploit Pakistan flood aid frustrations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 2nd, 2010
Independent: Advocates of action to combat climate change have a new champion, though it is unlikely they will be inviting him to campaign on their behalf any time soon. He is Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qai'da, the terrorist group that has specialised in a brand of global destruction all of its own. Bin Laden is heard focusing on the issue of greenhouse emissions in a new audio tape that surfaced yesterday on several Islamic militant websites. "The number of victims caused by climate change ...
New plan aims at Mediterranean biodiversity ‘hotspots’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 2nd, 2010
Independent: An alliance of conservationists and international donors on Wednesday unveiled a map of six areas on the Mediterranean rim aimed at guiding policy for preserving precious habitats and threatened species. The 251-page "ecosystem profile" was launched by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, including the US-based NGO Conservation International, the World Bank, the government of Japan and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). It highlights six "priority areas" that, its authors ...