August 2, 2011
Somali refugees fetch water at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya on July 31, 2011. The head of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, blamed the famine in Africa’s Horn of Africa region on climate change and "our collective failure to end the Somali civil war." "While this is a tragedy triggered by the worst [...]
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July 26, 2011
Internally displaced Somali men perform prayers over the body of a man who died of starvation July 25, 2011 at an IDP camp in Mogadishu. The UN World Food Program was set on Tuesday to start airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya after an emergency meeting in Rome on the drought-stricken Horn of Africa [...]
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July 20, 2011
A displaced Somali mother attends her malnourished child at southern Mogadishu's Banadir hospital on July 19, 2011 where medics have said most of the displaced children are ill and have been treated for severe malnutrition The death rate among drought-stricken Somalis arriving at refugee camps has reached several times above levels seen in emergency situations, [...]
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April 9, 2011
A protracted drought has aggravated seasonal brackish water intrusion in the Mekong Delta, significantly damaging the region’s rice crop A farmer from Soc Trang Province’s My Xuyen District watering his watermelon field on March 13. The Mekong Delta is suffering from harsh drought and saline water intrusion caused by climate change and upstream hydropower [...]
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March 29, 2011
Kasemsun Chinnavaso, director general of Thailand's Water Resources Department, stands on the banks of the Mekong River in Muang district, Nongkhai province, Thailand, in March 2010. One year after one of the driest years in half a century, tens of millions of residents along the Mekong River are still trying to determine the cause of [...]
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December 21, 2009
Farmers in Yen Phong District, Bac Ninh Province, till paddy fields ahead of the upcoming rice season, as water is released from local reservoirs for irrigation.LookAtVietnam – About two billion cubic metres of water will be released from reservoirs to save winter-spring crops in northern regions from looming drought.According to the plan agreed between the [...]
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December 20, 2009
Catholics Solidarity Committee celebrates Christmas; Vietnam, Canada boost educational cooperation; PM bans demolition of Hanoi old villas; Vietnam to punish spouses for sexual violence Catholics Solidarity Committee celebrates Christmas The Vietnam Committee for Solidarity of Catholics (VCSC) held a solemn ceremony in Hanoi on December 18 to mark the upcoming Christmas.Priest Nguyen Cong Danh, VCSC [...]
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December 8, 2009
The UN Conference on Climate Change will last from December 7-18 in Denmark. This is the final chance for countries to reach an agreement on cooperative action to cope with climate change. The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s map of the Mekong Delta if the sea level rises by just 1 meter. The Intergovernmental [...]
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November 24, 2009
An El Nino will develop in the next few months, causing higher temperatures this winter and possibly droughts in the north, forecasts the Centre for Meteorological and Climate Research. LookAtVietnam – According to the Centre for Meteorological and Climate Research under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, an El Nino will develop in the [...]
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August 30, 2009
A group of hippos bathe in a shallow pool of water in the Tsavo West National Park, in southern Kenya. Kenya’s persistent and bruising drought is having a serious impact on the country’s wildlife, one of its main tourist attractions, obliging the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to feed hippos to keep them alive. In Tsavo [...]
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