ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Experts Call for Stronger Anti-Smog Measures
nina Daniela EstradaSANTIAGO, Mar 27 2008 (IPS) - It s as if we were swimming at a beach unfit for bathing. For four or five months a year, the air is…
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IRAQ: Running Out of Water in Rising Heat
Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail*BAQUBA, May 9 2008 (IPS) - Water supply is drying out in what was once the agriculturally rich Diyala province north of Baghdad. Baquba, the capital…
MIDEAST: Hospitals in Need of Care
Nora Barrows-FriedmanJEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, Jun 11 2008 (IPS) - In the brightly painted new intensive care unit wing of al-Awda, northern Gaza s only emergency medical facility in the…
POPULATION: UN Predicts 12 Billion if Family Planning Falters
Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 2008 (IPS) - The United Nations commemorated World Population Day Friday in the shadow of a staggering array of grim statistics: an estimated 200 million…