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Mark Weisenmiller , IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
TAMPA, Florida, Oct 10 (IPS) - If an experiment to plant sweet sorghum in rural Florida and convert it to fuel ethanol pans out, it could herald a fundamental change in how the U.S. and other countries create and use renewable bio-energy, researchers say....
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Oct 10, 2008
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Stephanie Nieuwoudt , IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
CAPE TOWN, Oct 10 (IPS) - Africa risks losing up to 50 percent of its indigenous species over the next century due to global warming....
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Oct 10, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with a Dutch university to promote education and research in developing countries to build momentum towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline....
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Oct 10, 2008
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Koffigan E. Adigbli , IPS Inter Press Service - Women: Leading the Way
DAKAR, Oct 10 (IPS) - The Sicap Baobap neighborhood, one of the prettiest in the Senegalese capital, stands out, but not for the most obvious reasons. Not for its well-paved roads, or the number of naturalised immigrants from Cabo Verde, Togo or Benin, not for the hustle and bustle of the...
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Oct 10, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Environment, Shelter
The current global market crisis could provide an opportunity for the world financial system to reconstruct itself to promote "green" growth, the top United Nations climate change official said today in New York....
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Oct 10, 2008
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Julio Godoy* , IPS Inter Press Service - Environment
BARCELONA, Oct 10 (IPS/Terraviva) - Several environmental organisations have asked the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to stop accepting funding from Shell, the giant international oil company....
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Oct 10, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with a Dutch university to promote education and research in developing countries to build momentum towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline....
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Oct 10, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
Greater efforts are needed to address the difficulties in providing mental health care and protecting the human rights of those with severe disorders, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging scaled up resources to provide care to those who need it....
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Oct 10, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
Greater efforts are needed to address the difficulties in providing mental health care and protecting the human rights of those with severe disorders, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, urging scaled up resources to provide care to those who need it....
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Oct 10, 2008
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(author unknown), UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security
Experts with the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) have identified ways to further strengthen the way national health systems in Africa - where most of the world's humanitarian crises are occurring - function during and after emergencies such as disease outbreaks, flooding and malnutrition....
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