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Source: Reuters HANOI, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Heavy rains from a storm in central Vietnam have killed nine people, including three children, bringing the toll since late last week to 21, although the flood levels have ...

Source: Reuters (Adds details, quotes) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Impatient with the pace of national governments in fighting global climate change, 13 U.S. state governors joined ...

Source: Reuters (Adds details, quotes, reaction) By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Canadas Conservative government, shifting positions in the wake of Barack Obamas election as U.S. President, said ...

Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, reaction) By Randall Palmer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Canada pledged new aid to its ailing auto sector on Wednesday and, in an apparent shift, it also said it ...

Source: Reuters CANBERRA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Torrential rains caused flooding and left thousands of homes without power across the southeast of Australias tropical Queensland state, just days after cyclonic storms ...

Source: Reuters OTTAWA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Canadas Conservative government said on Wednesday that it would work to develop a North America-wide cap-and-trade system to limit emissions of greenhouse gases. The ...

Source: Reuters By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Politicians actually listened when experts told them to protect Canadas boreal forest, a potent weapon against global ...

Source: Reuters * Obama pledge will have positive influence * Obama climate goals are feasible * New climate regime should be Africa-friendly By William Maclean ALGIERS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Barack Obamas ...

Source: IRIN The torrential rains experienced in Brazzaville every year at this time spread sewage in the streets and sometimes bury houses in sand carried along by the ensuing floods.

Source: Reuters By Nick Tattersall LAGOS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Millions of people in Nigeria could be displaced by rising sea levels in the next half century, as ocean surges swamp some of Africas most expensive ...

Source: Reuters SKOPJE, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests on Wednesday to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive in the Balkan country ...

Source: IRIN At least 8,000 hectares of farmland in southern Somalias Lower Shabelle region have been destroyed after the Shabelle river burst its banks, displacing thousands of people, officials said.

Source: WFP WFP today welcomed a significant donation from Sindicatum Carbon Capital of US$ 100,000 to support food-for-workprojects in East Indonesia.

Oxfam GB - UK    Enlisting the help of elephants, cows, donkeys and horses to get their messages across, more than four thousand people took part in a colourful march and rally in Gaibandha, northern Bangladesh, to raise awareness of climate change, and its impact on the most vulnerable communities.   Many in the crowd wore head banners reading “Stop harming, start [...]

Source: IRIN We were terrified. We thought we were all going to die. But all we could do was sit on the remaining shattered pieces of wood in the torrential rain.

Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) - India SEEDS, A Non-Government Organisation is presently involved in building resilience for communities against future floods while rehabilitating them, post disaster, in one of the most recurrent flood ...

Source: Reuters (Adds comments from Schwarzenegger) By Jeff Mason CHICAGO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States would "engage vigorously" in climate change talks when he is ...

Source: Reuters By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. business leaders including the troubled Big Three automakers offered a prescription on Tuesday for economic ...

Source: IRIN At least 52,000 people have abandoned their homes in Ethiopias Somali region after the Wade Shabelle and Genale rivers burst their banks following heavy rains.

Source: Reuters DHAKA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Thousands of Bangladeshis urged big polluting nations on Tuesday to cut greenhouse gases and help low-lying countries prone to disasters adapt to powerful storms, floods and ...