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IPCC Doubts: Only the Tip of the IcebergGerroa, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2010 When social scientists like Australia's Clive Hamilton get to run hard science processes the outcome is almost always junk science. Over the weekend more reports of "sexed" up climate science have emerged casting yet more doubt on the IPCC report, with the myriad of claims that global warming is linked to worsening natural disasters being directly questioned. What policy makers need to keenly understand is that the unraveling of the IPCC report has only just begun ... read more |
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300,000 more to move for China's Three Gorges Dam: reportBeijing (AFP) Jan 21, 2010 An additional 300,000 people will be forced to move from their homes because of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam and its huge reservoir, state media reported on Thursday. The English-language China Daily said the relocations were aimed at preventing pollution from adjacent communities contaminating the reservoir, and at protecting residents from possible seismic dangers. The report quoted government officials in the huge municipality of Chongqing in southwestern China. The dam, t ... read more |
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Nairobi (AFP) Jan 21, 2010Researchers on Friday launched an insurance scheme for Kenyan herders using satellite images to provide broader and fairer compensation for livestock losses. Launched in northern Kenya's pastoralist -- or livestock raising -- Marsabit region, the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) uses vegetation images to estimate cattle mortality as a function of forage loss. Project leader Andrew ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 24, 2010Thousands of Haitian voices rose in prayer from ruined churches Sunday, as recovery teams began to bulldoze the capital's devastated centre and a French ship carrying supplies arrived. Twelve days after a catastrophic earthquake razed much of the city, hundreds of thousands of Haitians remained in desperate need of food, water and shelter, despite a large-scale US military intervention and U ... more 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 21, 2010Haiti's devastating earthquake has meant huge profits for traders selling water, oil and phone cards in the capital. General shortages and an influx of foreigners with dollars since the January 12 quake have led to record price rises for everything from water, to gas, to phone cards, to taxis. While the Haitian capital remains devastated, anyone who managed to stash extra food, petrol or ... more |
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Haitian slums set to expand after quakePort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 24, 2010 Skinning the occasional cat for food and still living on the street, many residents of the devastated Haitian capital are building new homes with strips of wood and rusty pieces of metal. Their work is set to multiply Port-au-Prince's already sprawling slums, transforming makeshift refugee camps across sports grounds and wasteland. At the far end of a spread of sheets and string in the Parc La Paix sports stadium, survivors of the massive January 12 earthquake hammer nails into clumsy structures ... read more |
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