February 10
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Ravaged By Drought - the Number of Malnourished Children Rises
IPS
Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan,... Read more »
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Fears of a New Drought As La Niña Returns
IRIN
The climatic conditions linked to the drought in the Horn in 2011 have persisted, and some early warning officials say the aid community should brace themselves for a possible... Read more »
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Women Engineers Promote Low-Carbon Cooking
AlertNet
Engineer Anna Dembele's smile broadens as she shows off the low-carbon cooking kits she makes. The association she belongs to now plans to promote use of the equipment across Mali,... Read more »
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Imagining the Great Green Wall of Africa [analysis]
ISS
Despite the United Nation's recent declaration that the deadly Horn of Africa famine of 2011 has finally ended, it remains an obvious and inescapable certainty that the continent... Read more »
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High Prices Expected to Cause Famine
Radio Dabanga
An economist at the American University in Cairo, Dr Hamid Tijani Ali has said he expects Sudan to face famine conditions in the near future, due to restrictions on the... Read more »
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SANF
Southern Africa will in the next few years experience a gradual increase in the uptake of cleaner energy sources that could result in reduced carbon emissions. Read more »
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Heavy Dew Obstructs Aircraft Landing At RIA
New Dawn
A rather abrupt change in the weather condition here in the last few days characterized by thick dew and severe cold is said to be impeding smooth landing of commercial aircrafts... Read more »
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The Herald
DEVELOPED countries have been rapped for trying to control developing countries using climate change issues. Read more »
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Govt Spends Half of Climate Funds
Citizen
Tanzania has only spent half of Norwegian funds on Reduced Deforestation and Land Degradation (REDD), the ambassador of Norway, Ms Ingunn Klepsvik has said. Read more »
February 9
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AIM
The known death toll from tropical depression "Dando" and cyclone "Funso", which hit southern and central Mozambique in January, has risen from 37 to 40, according to the... Read more »
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Traditional Weather Prediction Incorporated Into Forecasts
AlertNet
In Essong'olo village, some 32 km west of Kenya's Kisumu city, Japheth Olukune Akhati and his neighbours are busy tilling their small plots of land in preparation for planting. It... Read more »
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Climate Conversations - Green Development Is a Slippery Fish
AlertNet
The paradigm shift towards sustainable development envisaged in the historic Agenda 21 adopted at the first Rio conference in 1992 and confirmed in the 2002 Johannesburg Plan of... Read more »
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Climate Conversations - How to Design a Redd+ Project [press release]
AlertNet
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) aims to reward or compensate tropical developing countries for keeping their forests intact or for reducing the... Read more »
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Become a Trees for Zambia Ambassador - Greenpop
Biz-Community
Greenpop has launched a fundraising initiative in order to raise the trees it plans to plant in Zambia this July. Those who participate qualify for a competition that will allow... Read more »
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Early Signs of Rain Ease Lafia, Environs From Heat Wave
Daily Trust
Relief came the way of Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, and environs, after early signs of rain were witnessed on the night of Wednesday, inviting some cooling effect, and... Read more »
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Cross River Govt Laments Incessant Flooding
Daily Trust
The Director General, Cross River Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Mr. Vincent Aquah says the incessant flooding in major parts of Calabar metropolis has become a major source of... Read more »
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District Faces Looming Drought This Year
Citizen
There are growing fears that Simanjiro District in Manyara Region may suffer from yet another cycle of severe drought this year. Already there are reports that some farmers and... Read more »
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Google Wrests Control of Cool It Climate Leaderboard [press release]
Greenpeace
The tussle for the top of our Cool IT Leaderboard has taken its latest twist, with Google grabbing the top spot ahead of 20 other tech companies, including Cisco and Ericsson. Read more »
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Tunisia Live
The southern Tunisian island of Djerba, popularized in Greek mythology by Ulysses' sea voyage to the island - as told in the Odyssey of Homer - in which it was nicknamed the... Read more »
February 8
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Relief Efforts Hindered By Heavy Snowfall in Northwest
Tunisia Live
Several regions in Tunisia continue to combat the intense cold wave that has recently struck the northwest of the country. Daily social routines and commercial activity in these... Read more »
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The Drainage Canals [editorial]
Daily Observer
It was a welcome development when the government commenced the construction of major and feeder roads as well as a central drainage system around the Greater Banjul Area. There was... Read more »
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Mumias Farmers Count Losses After Fire Destroys Cane
Nairobi Star
Sugarcane growers and a miller from Kakamega county are counting losses running into millions of shillings after a fires reduced their crop to ashes. Read more »
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Coffee Farmers to Get Training On How to Cope With Climate Change
Daily News
ABOUT 750 coffee farmers in Mbeya region are to get training under the project of coffee and climate on how to deal with climate change that has been affecting their agricultural... Read more »
February 7
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Why Is It So Hard to Make Aid Climate-Smart? [analysis]
AlertNet
Most aid workers know it doesn't make sense to build a house or install a water pump in a spot that's flooded every year, nor to get farmers to switch to crops that will make them... Read more »
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Politics May Be Real Climate Hazard - Experts
AlertNet
Climate change impacts - from worsening droughts to new pots of climate-related cash for fragile states - may turn out to be a catalyst for worsening conflict. If so, keeping an... Read more »
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