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More deals, less conflict? Cross-border water planning key, report warns
As global water supplies run low, agreements on how to share water across borders are crucial - but few are in place yet, researchers say
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Wajir county opens GIS lab to support rangeland and water planning
Data collected will inform the location of water points
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Stay or go? As weather gets wilder, states urged to prepare for displacement
With disasters uprooting 24 million people a year, pressure grows on governments to reduce the risk, and do more to protect the displaced
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Where is the promised money, campaigners ask at climate talks
Faced with mounting costs from climate-linked disasters, poorer nations need help quickly, activists say at Bangkok negotiations
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Disasters happen to real people – and it's complicated
Age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and many more factors must be considered if people are to become resilient to climate extremes
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Everything we’ve heard about urbanization turns out to be wrong’
Researchers contest widely-accepted United Nations' predictions on urban population growth
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From camel to cup: Camel milk froths hopes in drought-hit Kenya
Camels are highly adapted to climate change, while their milk has been dubbed 'white gold' by food experts who say it could help conquer malnutrition
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When the ground opened: horizontal landslides empty Kenyan villages
Heavy rain has brought more than just flooding to the village of Gitugu: it has torn apart the very ground beneath people's homes and fields
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Rising disaster risk but little insurance interest in Pacific
Limited take-up so far is linked to small island nations' reluctance to foot the bill for the effects of climate change, says insurance expert
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Growing disaster threats put human survival in doubt, warns U.N.
Air pollution, diseases, drought, climate change and earthquakes are creating risks "in a way that we have not anticipated"
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