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Search for NewsWe have the news about your favorite cause. Thousands of articles from hundreds of sources. Browse by cause on the left, or search by keyword below.  Most recent 200 news articlesPREVIEW-UN climate talks seek quicker pace, plug 2050 gapsby (author unknown), AlertNet Newsdesk Source: Reuters By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - More than 150 nations meet in Ghana from Thursday trying to speed up sluggish talks on a new climate treaty and plug big gaps in ... add a comment | Aug 20, 2008 Senegal - President Wade asked to intervene after two newspapers ransacked - 20.08.2008by (author unknown), Reporters sans frontières - AFRICA ... add a comment | Aug 20, 2008 US/PAKISTAN: Mystery Behind Aafia Siddiqi's 'Arrest' Deepensby Zofeen Ebrahim , IPS Inter Press Service - Human Rights KARACHI, Aug 20 (IPS) - ‘’For you it’s just another story. If you want the truth go to Ghazni where you will get more than I can ever tell you about my sister," said a distraught Fouzia Siddiqi, speaking with IPS, in a voice breaking with helpless desperation.... add a comment | Aug 20, 2008 £40K awards on offer for green SMEsby (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed Small businesses are being offered the chance to win awards of up to £40,000 to help fund innovative ideas to tackle climate change.... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 Remanufacturing has role in war on wasteby (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed Shoe-horned somewhere between reuse and recycling, remanufacturing sits uncomfortably in the standard waste hierarchy.... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 How catching cold mountain air could save Europe's glaciersby (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed A German geography professor has developed a controversial system of mountain "wind-catching" screens which he claims could slow or even halt the dramatic rate at which Europe's glaciers are melting.... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 Non-domestic BREEAM standard to be launchedby (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed With autumn fast approaching, certification body BRE Global is gearing up to launch the latest addition to its stable of sustainable building standards.... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 Cameroon: Heavy Rains Paralyse Bueaby (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed They came down in fast blinding sheets, drumming hard on rooftops and whipping at the vegetation.The rains set off floods that practically wrecked the better part of the day. Buea was transformed into a delta with what began as rivulets swelling into swirling streams, while runoff littered with garbage gurgled down... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 Tanzania: Dar to Spend $2 Million On New Weather Radar This Yearby (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed The Tanzania Meteorology Agency will spend $2 million to purchase a new weather radar to improve forecasting, monitor changes and impending disasters such as drought and floods.... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 Africa: Maasai 'Can Fight Climate Change'by (author unknown), EarthWire Climate RSS News Feed Africa should make more use of the skills of its nomadic peoples to help combat the challenges of climate change, the aid agency Oxfam says.... add a comment | Aug 19, 2008 |
