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Development Program hailed Saturday China's new energy efficiency target to fight global warming, saying it is ''important and ambitious'' and ''injects momentum'' into the lead-up to a U.N. climate change conference next month in Copenhagen. To access...
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More take up anti-retrovirals as infection rates decline Far fewer Kenyans are dying of HIV-related causes today than seven years ago. A new report attributes this to increased use of anti-retrovirals while prevalence rates seem to have stabilised....
Tags: Kenya Demographic Health Survey, condom use, Kenya, Nairobi, Health Medical Pharma, HIV/AIDS, Sexually transmitted diseases and infections, AIDS pandemic, Social Issues, AIDS, Immunodeficiency, Pandemics, 21st century, HIV
And I gotta agree, they've got a hell of a point November 27th, 2009 It looks like we’ve all got another big reason to be thankful this year … it’s almost the end of the 00’s decade which, according to Time magazine, has been The Decade from Hell . The...
Tags: worst decade, Time magazine, Afghanistan, Kabul, Disasters, 21st century, Disaster Accident
The scientists say that the e-mail messages, which have circulated on the Internet and which disclose the inner workings of a small network of climatologists who chart the planet’s temperature, have damaged the public’s trust in the evidence that humans...
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The leaders of its 53 members, meeting this weekend on the island of Trinidad, are attending out of tradition and duty – a school reunion for a class that has grown up since graduation, but whose former headmistress still enjoys getting her old boys and...
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S average temperature will increase by up to 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next 20 years as a result of global warming, according to the State of the Uganda Population Report, released yesterday by finance minister Syda Bbumba. �Climate change is likely...
Tags: Uganda, climate change, food security, degrees celsius, water resources, Mbarara, Environment, Food politics, Global warming, 21st century, Malaria, Drought
From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least. About 23-million people currently face starvation across...
Tags: climate change, South Africa, Southern Africa, African Union, Kenya, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Environment, Carbon finance, 19th century, Global warming, 21st century, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Drought
This is a voluntary action taken by the Chinese government based on its own national conditions and is a major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change," the State Council said in a statement quoted by the Xinhua news agency yesterday.
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And while they'll seek ways to battle greenhouse emissions, the scientific community is split over global warming. After hackers allegedly exposed one of the most respected climate research institutes as having defrauded the world in regards to global...
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Once, water supply and electricity were the keystones to national development and attracting foreign investments. But now, broadband connectivity has become a basic necessity for businesses and homes alike. Every sector of the economy, every industry...
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