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Report: employ disaster-risk management to reduce climate impacts

By: Deodatus Mfugale on December 7th, 2011

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Tanzanians and indeed all developing countries should brace for more disasters arising from extreme weather events caused by climate change as a result of human activities, the UN climate science body recently reported.

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Opinion: mountain countries threatened by climate change

By: Ramesh Prasad Bhushal on December 7th, 2011

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Nepalese journalist Ramesh Prasad Bhushal explains how mountain regions like the Himalayas are threatened by climate change and need urgent help.

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Himalayan snow ‘half previous estimates’

By: Ramesh Prasad Bhushal on December 6th, 2011

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Himalayan snow cover is little more than half of that previously estimated, according to first-ever comprehensive research on snow cover in the region released at UN climate talks here.

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Go vegetarian, reduce your carbon footprint

By: Maria Gabriela Ensinck on December 6th, 2011

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Vegetarianism in the struggle against climate change.

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Taking it to the streets – in pictures

By: Dave Durbach on December 5th, 2011

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Chanting time-honored South African protest songs, the people of Durban joined workers and activists from all over the world to march against climate change, poverty and inequality – in the hope of pressuring delegates at UN talks into finding real solutions.

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Climate march on Durban

By: Carol Francis on December 4th, 2011

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Thousands marched through the streets of Durban, South Africa at the weekend and held a mass meeting in front of the ICC where the United Nations climate change negotiations are taking place.

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From the COP17 exhibit hall: fashion design reinvented

By: Heather King on December 3rd, 2011

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California College of the Arts is exhibiting sustainable clothing designs at COP17. Their aim is to reinvent the retail fashion industry.

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Global warning

By: Indi McLymont-Lafayette on December 2nd, 2011

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Caribbean music artistes produced this video with the help of Panos Caribbean as a warning against climate change.

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Jamaica’s ‘powerless’ fishermen watch livelihoods disappear

By: Carol Francis on November 30th, 2011

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Jamaica’s fishermen are in despair. Warming coastal waters, and the destruction of coral reefs have seen their catches dwindle. Increasingly frequent hurricanes often means it’s too dangerous to go to sea. Many fear what the future holds. Listen to their accounts.

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A Nigerian quest for better use of wood fuel

By: Ugochi_Anyaka on August 2nd, 2011

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Ugochi Anyaka reports on the health effects that people suffer when the burn wood as fuel in their homes – and how tackling this problem can help to limit climate change too.

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