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How basketry preserved a people
Zulu basketry began to die out because of tin and plastic containers, but now the craft is flourishing.
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Climate change talks: What are the goals in Qatar? (+video)
UN talks for a new pact to curb greenhouse emissions and slow climate change are underway in Qatar. Negotiators hope to extend the Kyoto Protocol. The concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide has jumped 20 percent since 2000, according to a U.N. report released last week
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Rich-poor divide bogs down UN climate talks
Developing nations say the industrialized world - responsible for most of the emissions historically - should bear the brunt of the emissions cuts while developed nations want to make sure that fast-growing economies like China and India don't get off too easy.
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Why Iran wants to beef up Zimbabwe’s military
Iran has guns and expertise. Zimbabwe has uranium and diamonds. Both are international pariahs. It's a heaven-made match in a world of crushing international sanctions.
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Change Agent
Solar power: cheap electricity for world’s poorMore than a billion people worldwide lack access to electricity. The best way to bring it to them is to provide ever-cheaper, clean, locally produced solar power that can replace dirty and dangerous kerosene.
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Famine early warning system gives Africa a chance to prepare
US government system, using ground sensors and satellite imagery, helped to predict this year's drought in Horn of Africa, allowing aid groups and governments to prepare relief.
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Is Canada becoming a climate change renegade?
Canada on Monday became the first country to announce that it would withdraw from the Kyoto protocol on climate change. Did the promise of riches from the country's vast tar sands reserves play a role?
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The Monitor's View: After climate talks in Durban, a more truly global solution
The big breakthrough at the Durban climate talks was that India, China, and other big carbon emitters agreed to seek a legal pact with the West by 2015. A global problem needs a global solution.
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While a deal sets up new climate talks, scientists help Africans adapt now
Delegates in Durban, South Africa struck a deal to seek a new climate change treaty. Meanwhile, less-contentious projects like a famine early warning system help now.
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Is the US dragging its feet on a climate deal?
Some countries and advocacy groups are saying that the United States is seeking to delay the start of a legally binding climate change deal until after 2020, a charge that the US climate envoy denies.
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Comprehensive climate deal 'beyond our reach': UN chief
Political differences, the worldwide financial crisis and a divergence of priorities among rich and poor countries are barriers to an agreement on a future negotiating path accordig to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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Good Reads: China faces unrest as economy slowsThe rest of the world was hoping China's booming economy would pull everyone else out of economic slowdown, but now even China appears to be slowing down.
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Mugabe grilled in South African chicken ad
A satirical ad by Nando's Chicken poked fun at Zimbabwe President Mugabe. His supporters were not amused.
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Climate change: 2011 temperatures the hottest ever during La Nina
Climate change studies show rising global temperatures – the 10th highest ever – and shrinking ice caps. This year saw the lowest volume of Arctic sea ice ever recorded, due to global warming, say scientists.
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Durban climate change talks: Experts see warmer world as inevitable
Many of the nations gathered in Durban, South Africa, this week have proposed voluntary cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. But even if all of those cuts were successful, they would still result in catastrophic climate change.
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The climate news is bad, but prospects for climate talks may be worse
UN-sponsored climate talks opened Monday in South Africa amid grim news on global warming and deeply divisive questions over how, or whether, to expand or extend the Kyoto Protocol.
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China: Economic woes no excuse for climate change inaction
Ahead of major climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, China's top climate official said that economic turmoil in the West should not get in the way of fighting global warming.
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Climate change warning: brace for hotter heat waves, stronger storms
A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that such events are likely to occur if greenhouse-gas emissions continue unabated.
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The Monitor's View: Keep the climate challenge in focus
An international meeting later this month won’t take big steps, but it can hold everyone’s feet to the fire.
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'Strike season' comes to South Africa
In what has become an annual event, South African unions are set to strike for better wages. While the unions claim wage hikes will reduce inequality, critics say they cause youth unemployment.
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South Korea goes wild as Pyeongchang wins bid to host 2018 Winter Olympics [VIDEO]
The International Olympic Committee's selection of Pyeongchang, South Korea means the 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in Asia for the first time since the 1998 Games took place in Nagano, Japan.
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Will recovering global economy thwart efforts to curb global warming?
A UN agency reports that as the global economy began to recover from the recession, carbon emissions surged to a new record, imperiling measures to contain global warming.
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South Korea's Olympic effort to win an Olympic bid
South Korea is pulling out all the stops in its third bid to host a Winter Olympics. Can it beat out iconic, Alps-filled Germany and France for the 2018 Games?
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