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Environment

New UN online tool detects global fire hotspots in real time

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today unveiled a new online portal to help countries monitor fires and protect property with data from satellites operated by the United States space agency NASA.

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Environmental group says China oil spill is serious

Chinese authorities have been asked by Greenpeace China to work harder to clean up a group of islands which have been polluted by spilt oil.

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ASIA: Water is a good servant but a bad master

The floods in northwest Pakistan could be a foretaste of things to come if you go by a recent report warning that in the next two decades factors like climate change could make water-related humanitarian crises a new source of concern.

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Global wheat production forecast to be lower than expected – UN

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has cut its global wheat production forecast for 2010 due to the impact of poor weather on crops in recent weeks, but allayed fears of a new food crisis, noting that current stocks should be...

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