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After Cyclone, Bangladesh Faces Political Storm (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) SOMINI SENGUPTA Published: November 26, 2007   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/world/asia/26bangladesh.html?ref=world&nb sp;DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov. 24 The political storm that preceded nature's latest assault on this country still swirls overhead. Nearly a year into an ... Other labels: security, institutions, food, aid, bangladesh, population, displacement

A plan for monitoring Africa's weather (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) Scott Baldauf  \ Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the December 5, 2007 edition http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1205/p06s02woaf.html Cape Town, South Africa When a massive earthquake shakes some corner of the Pacific Ocean, sensors alert Pacific ... Other labels: climate, africa, cooperation, vulnerability, weather, scientists

Art Lerner-Lam, Seven Questions, When Disaster Strikes (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?storyid=4313 Another week, another deadly natural disaster. China is struggling to dig survivors out from its worst natural disaster in three decades, and Burma's cyclone death toll continues to spiral ... Other labels: blog, earlywarning, columbiauniversity

ASIA - Natural disasters spur regional cooperation (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) BANGKOK, 29 July 2008 (IRIN) A sense of urgency after several natural disasters has propelled AsiaPacific nations into drawing up "concrete, practical" plans for cooperation in disaster management, a senior regional official has said. The Association of Southeast ... Other labels: blog, asean, cooperation, natural

Bangladesh storm toll over 3,000 (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) From: Reuters Published November 19, 2007 01:03 PM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/25264 By Anis Ahmed DHAKA (Reuters) Four days after super cyclone Sidr killed more than 3,000 people in Bangladesh, rescuers ... Other labels: disease, aid, bangladesh

China quake may cut carbon offset supply (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) From: Reuters Published May 15, 2008 09:29 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/36348 China's deadliest earthquake in decades could cut by up to 5 percent the country's supply of carbon offsets under the Kyoto Protocol over ... Other labels: blog, mitigation, climate, security, markets

Climate Disasters a Significant Possibility, Says Nobel Laureate Steve Chu (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) Climate Community November 3, 2008 In: Business, Science, Policy, Media, Social & NGOs http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com/getinformed/news/climatedisastersas ignificantpossibilitysaysnobellaureatestevechu.html Since the IPCC report came out in 2007, new data point to even more alarming scenarios. We ... Other labels: blog, prevention, climate, adaptation

Conflict compromising tsunami reconstruction (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) SRI LANKA http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79567 COLOMBO, 1 August 2008 (IRIN) Resurgent clashes between Sri Lankan government forces and the Tamil Tigers have hampered tsunami reconstruction in the north and east and affected the livelihoods of 2.5 ... Other labels: blog, asia, livelihoods, conflict, srilanka, naturalresources

DJIBOUTI, Food and water shortages escalate (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79548 NAIROBI, 31 July 2008 (IRIN) Recurrent droughts, in addition to rising food and kerosene prices, have exacerbated food insecurity in the Horn of Africa country of Djibouti, according to a senior UN official. "The people ... Other labels: djibouti, agriculture, security, food, africa, water, scarcity, population

Do more, invest more in mitigating impact of natural disasters, Ban tells world (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative) http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX7K9SKS?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P Much more needs to be done and much greater funding made available to mitigate the devastating toll of natural disasters in an age when climate change threatens to increase both ... Other labels: blog, mitigation, climate, un