31 October 2014
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Bangladeshi ‘Char Dwellers’ in Search of Higher Ground

Heavy rains throughout the monsoon months, beginning in August, left thousands of people in northern Bangladesh homeless or in dire straits as the mighty Brahmaputra, Dharla and Teesta rivers burst their banks, spilling out over the countryside. Some of the worst hit were the roughly 50,000-70,000 ‘char dwellers’, residents who have been forced to make their homes on little river islands or shoals, the result of years of intense sedimentation along some of Bangladesh’s largest rivers.

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30 October 2014
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A marriage to save the earth: Farmers and researchers innovate to conserve biodiversity

Traditional knowledge combined with the latest science could increase food production while safeguarding biodiversity, new research shows.

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29 October 2014
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Clean India campaign—don’t waste the opportunity

Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, launched a Clean India campaign on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Prime Minister aims to have a clean India by the time of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary in 2019. The campaign is timely, but will it be effective?

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28 October 2014
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A demand-led approach to climate resilience

In semi-arid regions across sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, development programs are often left at the mercy of climate change-related risks.

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28 October 2014
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WMS Global Awards for Excellence 2014

The Winners of the World Media Summit Global Awards for Excellence 2014 were announced on 27 October.

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27 October 2014
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6 Action Items After the Bonn Climate Negotiations

For the past week in Bonn, Germany, climate negotiators have tackled many of the core issues that are key to reaching a new international climate agreement in 2015. While the pace was slow at times, the discussions were thorough and constructive, building on the positive energy from the recent UN climate summit in New York.

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24 October 2014
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Boosting Shared Prosperity

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim speaks at Howard University on how the World Bank is working to ensure that the growth of the global economy will improve the lives of all members of society, not only a fortunate few.

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