Libya

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What Arab youth still want: jobs

Arab youth know what caused the uprisings a year ago. What they want to know is how their day-to-day lives will improve once the fanfare of elections subsides.

Failure to adapt to global climate change led to unrest across the Arab World. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/6argoo3a/6253592631/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Saleem-Homsi (Flickr)</a>

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat.

Protesters wave Egypt's flag. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/caitelle/5403613016/sizes/m/in/photostream/">C. Elle (flickr)</a>

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Turning Arab Spring youth opinions into data - and change

This story was republished in The Christian Science Monitor.

Declaring Internet access a human right would dilute the rights that matter more, says Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. Photo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vint_Cerf_-_2010.jpg">Veni Markovski (Wikimedia)</a>

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Internet inventor: Poor people deserve livelihoods, not websites

Get real: The Internet isn't a human right.

Cafes in Tunisia have become a common hangout for unemployed college graduates, but now that educated youth may be able to get back to work. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clurross/4543646129/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Flickr (clurross)</a>

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A new model for Middle East economic practices starts with Tunisia, Libya

Sitting in cafes all over Tunisia are unemployed youth with college degrees and nothing better to do.

Tunisia becomes the first country of the Arab Spring to hold a general election. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/piaser/5359879369/">Photo: Gwenaël Piaser (Flickr)</a>

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In Tunisia, voting on the future of the Arab Spring

While the world's eyes are fixed on violence in Egypt and Libya, the Arab Spring’s most importa

Anger over food prices helped lead to Muammar el-Gadhafi's assassination Thursday. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/home_of_chaos/3632276546/in/photostream/">Thierry Ehrmann (flickr)</a>

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Did global warming kill Gadhafi?

Muammar el-Gadhafi gave Libya's people plenty of reasons to hate him. But it may have taken climate change to do him in.

The falling costs of electronic fingerprinting make it a promising tool for cash payments of wealth from extracted resources. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidelong/2945717204/in/photostream/">Dave Bleasdale (flickr)</a>

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Why fingerprint scanners could be the perfect way to distribute oil wealth

Spy movies turn voices into passports, retinas into passwords.

Some of the thousands stuck at the Salloum border between Libya and Egypt. The situation on the Tunisian border is much worse. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

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Libya's Border Crisis

This has been reposted from the Mercy Corps blog.

These squares represent how much land would be needed to power the world, Europe or Germany with solar-thermal power. Photo: <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/solar-thermal-power-photos-how-much-world-europe-germany.php#ch01">Treehugger</a>

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Saharan Solar Plants Could Power All of Europe

A single solar farm in the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for all of Europe.

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Inter-African Cooperation

With Libya's help, a new oil pipeline project has been launched to connect Uganda and Rwanda's capitals.