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Environment

UN rural development arm helping respond to Niger food crisis

The United Nations rural development arm is helping to improve agricultural programmes in West Africa’s Sahel region, especially in Niger, which is currently in the throes of a growing food crisis.

China, the timber baron

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is an initiative to prevent conflict diamonds from being traded; what if there was a similar initiative to put illegal logging out of business? Sam Lawson, the lead author of a new report produced by Chatham...

BP: New Cap Has Stopped Flow Of Gulf Oil

BP says a new cap has stopped oil from leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April.

Situation Report #4 on Severe Weather-Wisconsin, USA

With word from the National Weather Service (NWS) that the bulk of this evening’s storms is behind us and that additional severe weather is not expected, the State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) closed down at 3:00 a.m.