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22-Mar-10

Climate change will overload humanitarian system, warns Oxfam (copy 1)

"Number of people affected by extreme weather has doubled in 30 years and is expected to reach 375 million a year by 2015" "Emergency organisations could be overwhelmed within seven years by the rising number of people in poor...

Category: Climate Change

22-Mar-10

Australia gripped by 'the Big Dry'

"Australia is in the grip of "the Big Dry", one of the worst droughts in a century. Major cities confront the major possibility of running out of water daily, and some are building desalination plants that draw from the sea. "

Category: Climate Change

19-Mar-10

Annan and humanitarians have woken up to climate crisis - so let's stop talking about the polar bear

"The aid community has taken a while to work out the impact of climate change on the most vulnerable, but better late than never"

Category: Climate Change

18-Mar-10

Canadian government 'hiding truth about climate change', report claims

"Canada's climate researchers are being muzzled, their funding slashed, research stations closed, findings ignored and advice on the critical issue of the century unsought by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, according...

Category: Climate Change

16-Mar-10

Geoengineering: Climate 'fix' could poison sea life

"Fertilising the oceans with iron to absorb carbon dioxide could increase concentrations of a chemical that can kill marine mammals, a study has found."

Category: Climate Change

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