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After the flood: From Haiti to Britain
2013-05-25 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: How do you produce art about climate change? Everyone from writers to painters to film-makers itch to grapple with this question but often struggle, getting bogged down in the complicated science, or the worthiness of the subject. It's the same for photographers: "There's a real problem with the image of climate change; it's either evidence 'the water was up to here, and now it's there' or it's cute polar bears," says Gideon Mendel. He has, however, been absorbed with an ongoing photographic...
Haiti welcomes JetBlue
2013-05-12 12:44:49| Airlines - Topix.net
Haiti is welcoming plans by the United States-based carrier JetBlue Airways to begin offering daily non-stop flights to the impoverished French-speaking Caribbean Community country.
Haiti: A place where poverty and darkness create more vulnerability to powerful storms
2013-04-19 15:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Little comes easy in this tiny coastal village where kids fill plastic buckets with charcoal to sell at market and women sweep bean pods into tidy mounds alongside pastel-painted mud and concrete houses. Litane Morece, who makes her living selling Chiclets gum and candies in front of the local school, burns a few sticks of wood to make her morning coffee. Showing off her steel stove, which she will place atop three large stones to cook fish and rice for that evening's dinner, Morece says charcoal...
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Is Haiti condemned to dirty air, denuded hills, blackouts and dangerous flooding?
2013-04-18 14:37:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Robert Naylor walks the perimeter of an electricity substation high above the earthquake-battered capital of Port-au-Prince, pointing out new batteries, switches and transformers that his construction company, Perini Management Corp., installed here as part of a $12.7 million U.S. Agency for International Development project to strengthen Haiti's energy infrastructure. This substation and others were damaged in the 2010 quake, and the United States is investing in repairs to the transmission and...
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In Haiti, April Showers Dont Always Bring Flowers
2013-04-12 19:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: In Haiti, a simple spring shower that would barely be noticed in most countries can cause devastating floods, due to the severe deforestation and erosion that impedes the absorption of rain. And the increasing frequency and intensity of rainfall and other meteorological phenomena, which scientists say are affected by climate change, are aggravating this country's already severe food security problems. These risks are among the biggest challenges in developing sustainable agriculture, said Philippe...
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