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By Mar 19
Trying to Rebuild Communities After Floods - After torrential rains and floods claimed lives in Kenya’s North Rift region, hundreds of displaced people are now in dire need of relief aid.
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NEPAL

By Feb 2
Communities Take Up Cudgels for Forest Conservation - Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking stick aside and takes rest on a vast expanse of lush green land.
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ENVIRONMENT-ASIA

By Jan 30
Future of China’s Tiger Farms in the Balance - The road to the world’s first tiger summit in Vladivostok later this year will have to be paved with answers about the future of tiger farms in China and other East Asian countries, said conservationists.
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ENVIRONMENT

By Dec 31
Invasion of the Little Green Molecules - While the world's climate negotiators were getting ready for Copenhagen earlier this month, a meeting was taking place in Mumbai to discuss progress in green chemistry, a field that – like the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions – has the potential to greatly enhance the world's environmental health and sustainability.
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ENVIRONMENT

By Dec 31
Fishing in the Sewer - After four hours on the Nile in a rowboat with his two sons, fisher Hussein Abdel Malek tallies the morning catch: a plastic water bottle, an empty juice box, a half dozen plastic bags and two small tilapia.
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DEVELOPMENT

By Dec 30
Filipino Communities Turn Trash Into Cash - Days after the New Year’s Eve revelry dies down, expect colorful lanterns or wreaths to remain hanging on the windows of many Filipino homes – part of a tradition in this South-east Asian country known to have the longest Yuletide celebration in the world.
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ENVIRONMENT-CONGO

By Dec 30
Defence of Great Apes Begins With Children - "But why do they kill gorillas, why do they trap them and put them in cages? One day, if i'm president, i'll stop all those who kill gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos," says 11-year-old Judicaëlle, a student at the Holy Sprit of Moungali School in Brazzaville.
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ENVIRONMENT-JAPAN

By Dec 29
Solar Trend Catches Fire among Households - The global community may have been dismayed by the outcome of the recently concluded climate change talks in Copenhagen, but Mami Naito, 42, is not about to put off dealing with this global phenomenon in her own small way. "We very much like the idea of joining the efforts to prevent global warming," says the mother of two.
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MADAGASCAR

By Dec 23
Worrying Lapse in Forest Management - The illegal logging of precious wood rose sharply during the political crisis that gripped Madagascar during 2009. Forest communities, who could be part of the preservation of these resources, have been swept up in the rush for rosewood.
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ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND

By Dec 13
Do-it-Yourself Renewable Energy Catches On - When Innovation Centre Iceland (ICI) managers began courses in farming renewable energy in October they were unprepared for the enthusiastic response from citizens.
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CLIMATE CHANGE

By Dec 10
From Dirty Fuels to Clean Technology - Tomorrow’s polluters are today’s emerging economies. To develop without retracing the polluting steps of the West, requires green technology, an expensive option for Africa.
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ENERGY-MEXICO

By Dec 4
Big Plans for Ethanol from Algae - The Mexican company BioFields will begin production in 2014 of an algae-based biofuel at a site 300 kilometres from its border with the United States, which is likely to be its biggest customer.
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INDIA

By Dec 1
Climate Change Fuels Rural Out-Migration, Rising Farm Debt - Under a shed made of bamboo and corrugated sheet metal, Purusottam Sur feeds his two bullocks and a cow with a bundle each of dry paddy plant. A fifth of his five-acre paddy harvest will be used only as cattle feed; the rice seeds just did not develop because of untimely rains this monsoon.
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