"In Haiti, Aid Workers Face a Dual Challenge"
"The poor nation has long suffered from a lack of medical care and rampant disease. With the earthquake, aid agencies must build a healthcare system on the fly."
Source: LA Times, 01/18/2010
Central America & the Caribbean
Haiti: "Survivors Face Threat of Outbreak of Disease"
"Doctors and aid workers worry that a wave of infectious disease may soon spread through Haiti, with masses of the newly homeless clustering in public spaces without clean water or sanitation."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 01/15/2010
"Haiti Earthquake Survivors Await Global Aid Effort"
"Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are awaiting the start of a global rescue effort in the wake of the country's devastating earthquake."
Source: BBC News, 01/14/2010
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SciDev.Net's Climate Change & Insect-borne Disease
September 10, 2009: SciDev.Net (The Science and Development Network) published a spotlight on the impact of climate change on the spread of insect-borne disease that considers how countries can prepare for these changes.
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"Fajardo's Fight: Taking on Big Oil"
Pablo Fajardo is the David to the oil Goliath Chevron Texaco. He represents about 30,000 Ecuadorians in a class action suit trying to clean up the oily mess in their part of the Amazon. The case, filed in 1993, goes back as far as 1964, when the U.S. company Texaco began oil exploration there. The suit alleges that Texaco dumped 18.5 billion gallons of 'produced water' -- which can contain dissolved inorganic salts, dispersed oil droplets and dissolved oil; treatment and workover chemicals; dissolved gases, particularly hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide; and bacteria and other living organisms.
Source: Eugene Weekly, 08/17/2009
"Coral Conservation In The Caribbean"
"The island of Bonaire is somewhat of an anomaly in the Caribbean due to its remarkably preserved coral reefs."
Source: Environment Report, 06/11/2009
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