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Cycling in Copenhagen: A model for clean energy

By: Rosalia Omungo on March 5th, 2010

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What would it take for you to leave your comfortable car at home and jump on a bicycle to get to work, school, or even to go shopping? Sounds a not so pleasant idea, and many would imagine that bicycles are for the poor who cannot afford to drive. But as cities focus more and more on clean energy, residents of Copenhagen, a developed city, have adopted cycling as the preferred mode of transport. Even the high and mighty in society are not left out. Rosalia Omungo reports on the Copenhagen cycling experience.

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Floods in Kenya : Climate reality dawns

By: Rosalia Omungo on March 5th, 2010

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Nearly 35 people were reported dead in Kenya in the first few weeks of January, following heavy rains. The Meteorological Department says the rains will subside by the end of the month, but the destruction in their wake is linked to years of environmental degradation. Rosalia Omungo reports on the reality beyond the Copenhagen summit.

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Colombia’s Indian communities join forces to beat drought

By: Maria Clara Valencia on January 18th, 2010

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Colombia’s indigenous peoples are working together to create an adaptation plan against climate change, which will bring together their own traditional knowledge with outside help from other agencies.

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First comes the gun, then the choking air

By: Athar Parvaiz on January 18th, 2010

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Imagine a scenario where the threat to the inhabitants of conflict-torn Kashmir won’t be the gun, but the quality of their air. The pollution trends in this part of the globe suggest that it has almost reached that point.

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Dying marine life spells woe for Namibian economy

By: Servaas Van den Bosch on January 18th, 2010

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The Benguela is lauded as the current of plenty but the future of its rich marine ecosystem is uncertain. Scientists fear warming seas will spell disaster for the economy of the region where the Atlantic, Indian and Southern oceans meet.

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The glacier that buried a village

By: Rina Saeed Khan on January 18th, 2010

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Scientists fear mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever as a result of rising temperatures, leading to fears that glacial lakes are becoming dangerously unstable. For Chitral village in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range this has already spelled disaster.

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Tuvalu demands cuts to maintain its existence

By: Paula Scheidt Manoel on December 18th, 2009

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Small island state Tuvalu emerged at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen asking for more ambitious commitments, to guarantee its continued existence.

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Columbia vulnerable as time on talks runs out

By: Maria Clara Valencia on December 17th, 2009

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Hopenhagen could become Brokenhagen is there is no agreement this week. Colombia hasn’t had its demands of funding for adaptation and mitigation fulfilled. Poverty is not the only aspect to take into account to measure vulnerabilty, the country´s delegation says. Melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and a huge amount of people living in the high mountains with lack of water, are problems that make Colombia very vulnerable to climate change.

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Nigeria Set To Announce Fresh Gas Flareout Date

By: Michael Simire on December 17th, 2009

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Nigeria, a notorious flarer of associated gas, says that a new date to stop the act, which will soon be announced, will not be shifted this time around.

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Young Climate Delegates Put Survival Before Wealth

By: Athar Parvaiz on December 17th, 2009

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Youth representatives at the UN Climate Change Convention conference in Denmark believe the negotiators are bound to make progress towards tackling global warming.

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