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AFRICA
Miracle Tree is Like a Supermarket
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.
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BALKANS
The Dark Side of Serbia's Oil Shale Fairy Tale
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - According to an old Serbian fairy tale, God tells a poor man who enters a gold mine that no matter what he chooses to do inside, he'll be sorry when he leaves. If he takes some gold, he'll be sorry for not taking more; if he doesn't, he'll be sorry for not taking any at all.
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INDIA
Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 2
By Malini Shankar
BANGALORE - As the amount of protected forest dwindles rapidly in India, indigenous groups and wildlife find themselves living cheek to jowl in an increasingly contested space.
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INDIA
Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 1
By Malini Shankar*
BANGALORE - Tucked away in a dense and ecologically diverse tiger reserve in Southern India, tribes-people and wildlife defenders are locked in a battle of indigenous peoples’ rights versus wildlife rights.
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SWAZILAND
Processing Plant Threatens Water in Capital
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - A multi-million dollar iron-ore reprocessing plant in the northern part of Swaziland, owned by Indian mining company Salgaocar, is threatening the water security of local communities and even the country’s capital city, Mbabane.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Waiting for the "Heavens to Weep"
By Ignatius Banda
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - Duduzile Sibanda takes a break from preparing her long stretch of land for her maize crop in rural Mberengwa, in Zimbabwe’s Midlands province. She wipes her brow under the scorching sun and looks upwards. The sparse clouds are a cause of concern as she studies the sky and wonders aloud when the "heavens will weep."
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NIGERIA
Fearing the Floods - Sleeping with One Eye Open
By Sam Olukoya
LAGOS, Nigeria - The women of Makoko, a low-lying slum close to the Lagos Lagoon along Nigeria’s Atlantic coast, always sleep with one eye open. Many live in fear that when they go to sleep at night they will wake to flooded homes and business.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
City Apartheid Built Turns Green
By Lee Middleton
ATLANTIS, South Africa - Something unusual is happening in Atlantis. Created in the 1970s to fulfill the apartheid government's agenda to evict "coloured" South Africans from Cape Town, Atlantis has always been best known as the city that apartheid built.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Climate Change Affecting Fisherwomen’s Livelihoods
By Lee Middleton
OCEAN VIEW, South Africa - Having observed changes in the sea and the life cycles of the rock lobsters that their livelihoods depend on, a group of fisherwomen from the Western Cape, South Africa are calling on government to adjust fishing seasons to adapt to what they claim are climate change-related alterations.
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KENYA
Thirsty Eucalyptus Good for Absorbing Carbon
By Isaiah Esipisu*
NAIROBI - On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years.
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Agreement for New Global Treaty To Reduce Emissions
By Stephen Leahy
DURBAN, South Africa - The world is increasingly committed to dangerous levels of global warming with yet another failure by nations of the world to agree to needed reductions in carbon emissions here in Durban. However, as the 17th Conference of Parties ended early Sunday morning, members did agree to talk about a new global treaty to reduce emissions.
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Q&A
"By 2020 it Will be Too Late"
By Kristin Palitza spoke to REGINE GÜNTHER, climate protection and energy policy chief at the World Wide Fund for Nature, about the dangers climate change poses to security and livelihoods.
DURBAN, South Africa - Despite the high risk, it remains difficult to convince politicians to take immediate action to prevent further climate change and make available the necessary funds to do so. Scientists have warned repeatedly of the effects of climate change - if governments do not act fast, they will cause an irreversible catastrophe.
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Saving the Forests with Indigenous Knowledge
By Isaiah Esipisu*
DURBAN, South Africa - For the Laibon community, a sub-tribe of Kenya’s Maasai ethnic group, the 33,000-hectare Loita Forest in the country’s Rift Valley Province is more than just a forest. It is a shrine.
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