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High Tide - The Truth About Our Climate Crisis

Posted on October 14, 2005
Previously filed under: South America, Book and Film Reviews
Author Mark Lynas reveals evidence of how global warming is hitting people's lives, not in the future, but in our world today.
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Keywords: climate change, global warming, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global citizens movement, evidence, research

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Head of State Inaugurates 'Water for All' Project

All Africa - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 07:37
Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos will this Wednesday inaugurate in Kabiri commune, northern Bengo province, the "Water for All" project, an initiative of the central government that was approved last June, ANGOP learnt.

Domestic Workers Driven to Suicide

Los Angeles Times - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 10:03
More and more immigrant housemaids are dying every week in Lebanon. Some commit suicide or die trying to run away from their employers, an international human rights organization reported Tuesday.

China to Add Jobs in Tourism Industry

International Herald Tribune - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 14:40
China wants to increase employment in labor-intensive industries because the demand for jobs in the world's most populous nation exceeds supply by about 20 million a year.

Over 40,000 Flood-Displaced Face Mounting Challenges

IRIN News - Wed, 08/27/2008 - 16:44
Over 40,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Nepal's Sunsari District, 500km southeast of Kathmandu, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA), and aid agencies say they and the displaced are facing mounting challenges.

Voluntary Standards and the Resource Curse

Policy Innovations - Tue, 08/26/2008 - 11:56
In this TED talk, economist Paul Collier explains how the alliance of compassion and enlightened self-interest can help change the divergent course of the world's bottom billion poorest people, drawing lessons from postwar Europe, democracy and the resource curse, and voluntary international standards.
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