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Haiti Is Now About 98% Deforested

One reason why Haiti suffers more than its neighbours from natural disasters like hurricanes and flooding is its massive deforestation, under way in the country since the time of the French occupation. Since the population has soared, the forests have come down. Haiti is now about 98% deforested.

Submitted by Holly.Davis

Keep Your Coins, I Want Change

Meek started putting up street art in early 2003, operating out of Melbourne, Australia he specialises in the sub-genre of Stencil graffitiHe lived in London for some time and was exposed to and heavily influenced by the work of Banksy. I was introduced to his work just yesterday with this sublime...

Submitted by Holly.Davis

What Life Is Like For 1 in 6 People On The Planet

The number of people living out their days in the squalor of a slum is almost one billion, the United Nations says - one-sixth of the world's populationBy 2050, the UN says, there may be 3.5billion slumdwellers, out of a total urban population of about six billionPicture taken by Holly Davis at the...

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Don't Kill Kyoto!

Christian Aid, FoE, Action Aid and Pan Africa Justice Alliance joined up at COP15 to deliver a rapid response message to negotiators following suspension of both the Kyoto Protocol negotiations and the negotiations under the Convention. Don't kill Kyoto!

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Shell Clean Up On Behalf Of Niger Delta

On Monday 7th December, twenty student activists from the University of York decided to clean up the local Shell garage, on behalf of everyone living in the Niger Delta. Shell are experts at creating a mess: in the Niger Delta, pollution and environmental damage caused by Shell has resulted in...

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The Messenger @ COP15

On the first day at COP 15, at the entrance to the confrence at the Bella Centre there was this huge sculpture by Seven Metres; highlighting the cause of many of the developing world countries suffering and the amount of climate change refugees there may be in the future...

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150 Billion Dollar Climate Debt!

Malla Reddy and other NGO partners from India, Burkina Faso and Tajikistan demand that the $150b climate debt owed to them be urgently addressed in the climate talks at COP15 this week...

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Fossil Of The Day

Everyday the Climate Action Network (CAN) and Avaaz present the Fossil Of The Day award to the countries doing the least to combat climate change during the negotiations. Yesterday the winner was Ukraine for having the single worst carbon emissions reduction target in the world...

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South Africa's Football Grannies

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World Aids Day

Today is World Aids Day. Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not...

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