Save the oceans from warming
WARSAW, 18 November 2013 (IRIN) - The Earth's oceans are being forced to absorb more and more planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, causing them to acidify at rates not seen in the last 300 million years, says a new report released for policymakers today at the UN climate talks in Warsaw.
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Obstacles to return in eastern DRC
NYAKABANDE (UGANDA), 18 November 2013 (IRIN) - Tens of thousands of refugees and displaced people are starting to return to their homes in the two territories of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) previously occupied by the M23 rebels.
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Getting regional crisis centres on the same page
BRUSSELS, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) - Over the last 10 years, mega-disasters such as the 2003 heat wave in Europe and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami have focused the world's attention on hazards that span whole regions. Such situations require better coordination from - and among - regional disaster authorities.
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Tanzania likely to fall short on its family planning targets
DAR ES SALAAM, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) - Tanzania will likely fall short of its 2015 reproductive health targets, which aim to reduce the estimated one million abortions, 2.9 million unintended births, 18,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 child deaths that occur every year because of poor of access to family planning services, say experts in the field.
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What is at stake in Warsaw so far
WARSAW, 19 November 2013 (IRIN) - Poor countries have thrown down the gauntlet as the UN climate talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered their final week, when government ministers take over the negotiations in Poland.
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Extreme weather claims more lives in poor countries
WARSAW, 20 November 2013 (IRIN) - In the last four decades, more than a million people in the world's poorest countries have died in climate-related disasters - more than five times the global average - yet funding for their adaptation plans eludes them, says a new paper released during the UN talks on climate change in Warsaw.
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Finding the urban crisis tipping point
DAKAR, 21 November 2013 (IRIN) - By 2015, three billion people will be living in urban slums according to UN Habitat. As the number of vulnerable people living in urban slums rises, aid agencies are struggling to identify the tipping point at which chronic urban vulnerability turns into a humanitarian crisis. IRIN spoke to aid staff to find out what they are doing about it.
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Migration myths debunked
JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2013 (IRIN) - Widespread negative public opinion about migration and migrants is often driven less by facts, such as the actual number of migrants arriving in a particular country, than by a raft of misperceptions: migrants are stealing jobs from locals, driving up crime rates and burdening public services.
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CAR - a failed state gets worse
BOSSANGOA, 22 November 2013 (IRIN) - The teeming hospital grounds in Bossangoa, a northwestern town in the Central African Republic (CAR), offers a glimpse into the worsening crisis the country has faced since a rebel alliance known as Seleka took power by force in March 2013.
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