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  1. Damage done? NGOs highlight irreversible losses caused by climate change

    04 June 2012 09:45 BST | Comments ( 0 )

    CARE International | Climate Conversations

    Joint Report by CARE, Germanwatch, ActionAid and WWF warns against irreparable damage from climate change for ecosystems and ...

  2. Clockwise from left: Sakina Moudi (left), 30, and Halima Abdou, 25. Their children Kassoumou (right), 4, and Massaoudou, 10 months. Sakina takes sorghum out of a sack at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)

    Niger : The faces of the food crisis, up close

    04 June 2012 09:33 BST | Comments ( 0 )

    CARE International | Aid Worker Diaries

    Life has never been easy for these families.They’ve become used to enduring what others would consider unbearable.

  3. A car with "for sale" written on its windshield is seen partially submerged in the floodwaters of the Rio Negro, one of the two main tributaries of the Amazon River, in Manaus, Brazil, May 2, 2012. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

    Talks on climate loss and damage build up steam

    01 June 2012 15:10 BST | Comments ( 0 )

    Climate & Development Knowledge Network | Climate Conversations

    U.N. negotiators make progress on a response to the problems of loss and damage from climate change

  4. A blackboard lists the names of the deceased who are to be cremated that day at Yaeway cemetery, Myanmar, May 16, 2012. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

    Yangon’s poor get help for a dignified end

    01 June 2012 15:07 BST | Comments ( 2 )

    AlertNet | Photo Blog

    Free Funeral Service Society - a non-governmental organisation is providing free burial services to those who can’t afford ...

  5. Makai Ali waits to get her baby daughter, Jamila, weighed at Isiolo Hospital in northern Kenya, May 11 2012. ALERTNET/Katy Migiro

    What is aid really achieving in Kenya's hungry north?

    01 June 2012 11:07 BST | Comments ( 0 )

    Katy Migiro | AlertNet News Blog

    Millions of aid dollars for drought-hit areas last year haven't resolved long-term problems of poverty and undernutrition

  6. Environmental activists demonstrate outside the U.N. climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, Nov. 29, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

    Shuffling towards transparency in climate finance

    31 May 2012 13:41 BST | Comments ( 1 )

    Megan Rowling | Climate Conversations

    Six international development banks will test a joint process to report on their funding for climate change adaptation

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