Updated: 2010-03-11 15:59:05
Water has been rapidly disappearing in Cyprus since the 1970s, but conflict between Turkish and Greek communities means fixing the problem is not high on the political agenda. Alex Bell finds that Cypriots are now struggling for control of land that is slowly dying.
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We are in Nicosia, one of Europe’s last divided cities, and the [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 15:54:05
The UK has donated £1 million to South Africa for it to purchase contraception to prevent possible spread of HIV and AIDS during this year’s football World Cup. It is hoped the handout may go some way towards helping the country reach its target of gathering one billion condoms before the games commence.
An announcement was [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 15:39:25
More than two animals and plants a year are becoming extinct in England and hundreds more are severely threatened, a report published today reveals. Natural England, the government’s agency responsible for the countryside, said the biggest national study of threats to biodiversity found nearly 500 species that had died out in England, all but a [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 15:22:30
“As we …talk about the interconnections between climate change and migration we need to look at the interconnections in a way that understands what’s positive about the processes of migration and what’s problematic,” said Susan Martin, Herzberg Professor of International Migration at Georgetown University, during a recent event on climate and migration at the Center [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 15:18:21
European Union ambassadors agreed to propose protecting bluefin tuna as an endangered species on Wednesday, the EU presidency said, a move that would effectively ban international trade in the species. Scientists say stocks of the Atlantic bluefin — which can fetch $100,000 each at market — have fallen by more than 80 percent over the [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 15:15:41
With the support of the EU, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has started distributing emergency food assistance to almost 200,000 people in the rural northeast of Syria, where the drought of 2009 has severely affected small-scale farmers and herding families. Global Arab Network has received EU Delegation press release which said that the [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 13:52:02
Amelia, a 30-year-old Sabiny woman and mother of six, who lives in the remote fringes of Bugimotwa village in Kapchorwa district, would like to stop giving birth, but due to lack of contraceptives, she is unable to. This has led to high fertility rates - with women producing up to seven children. About 90 per [...]
Updated: 2010-03-11 13:48:24
Elina Helander-Renvall comes from Utsjoki, a place so obscure that even many Finns have little idea where it is. Utsjoki, or Ochejohka, Uccjuuha, and Uccjokk, depending on which local language you are speaking, is Finland’s northern-most municipality. Straddling the border with Norway, it shivers, unregarded, deep inside the Arctic circle, a few icy miles from [...]
