AlertNet AidWatch - New Website Gives Lowdown On Global Aid Flows
02-09-2011
Katie Nguyen
Feb 9,2011
A displaced Afghan woman receives winter aid from the U.N refugee agency in Kabul
The Peak Oil Catastrophe-In-Waiting
01-24-2011
The Peak Oil Catastrophe-in-waiting
By Tam Hunt, Contributor | January 24, 2011
Cost Of Natural Disasters $109 Billion In 2010 -- U.N.
- * Developing countries shoulder rising costs from disasters
- * Earthquakes, floods cost $109 bln in 2010 vs $35 bln 2009
- * Decaying infrastructure described as risk in urban areas
By Laura MacInnis
UN: 1.6 Billion People Still Have No Access To Electricity
New York - The United Nations called Monday for a clean energy revolution that would provide electricity to the world population, including the 1.6 billion people who currently have no access to it.
2010: Top Year For Natural Disasters
SustainableBusiness.com News
Better Sanitation Could Save 2 Million Lives A Year - Study
- Bad sanitation, water account for 7 percent of global disease
- Billions of people have no access to hygienic toilets
Human Development Report Shows Great Gains, And Some Slides
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
ANALYSIS: Asia's Water Scarcity Poses Economic, Political Test
Source: Reuters
By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent
China Moving Heaven And Earth To Bring Water To Beijing
The $62-billion South-North Water Diversion, which will bring water to the parched capital, is being compared to the Great Wall. But environmentalists are up in arms about the 'replumbing' of the nation's great rivers.
Ushahidi Launches Simplified Crisis-Mapping Service
Crowdmap allows users to report incidents within minutes without installing platform on server or paying for host