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The Gulf Coast's Recovery: Uneven And Uneasy
Four years after Hurricane Katrina, housing is still elusive for some storm victims. In the small fishing villages ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Hundreds Feared Dead in Taiwan After Typhoon
The toll from the already deadly Typhoon Morakot in the Pacific threatened to soar on Tuesday, as huge mudslides ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Naked girls plow fields for rain | U.S.
hPATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino
(Blog Post) Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch ...via Global Voices -
Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.
Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water ...Posted by Marsha Iverson
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Gustav upsets the GOP Convention but may be good for the GOP
For the moment, the disaster benefits McCain, because like all great political moments, it allows him to act ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Global Warming Did It! Well, Maybe Not.
We're stuck on the notion that climate change is the culprit every time a natural disaster strikes. But that's ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Hurricane Dean's big winner: sugar?
The storm has wrecked sugar crops in places like Belize and Martinique, and may cause damage in Mexico. Still, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Implications of a Ten Day Refinery Outage
According to EIA data, gasoline inventories the week that Hurricane Gustav hit were the lowest that they had been ...Posted by Mike LaBonte -
New Orleans dodges disaster
In the post-Gustav news conferences, there will be handshakes and good cheer about a planning and evacuation job ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
