Megan Rowling
Before joining AlertNet, Megan Rowling worked as a freelance print and television journalist in Britain, France and Japan. At AlertNet, she focuses on the humanitarian impact of climate change. In 2008, she also spent several months working part-time as a media relations officer for the British Red Cross. She recently completed an MSc in development management.
Most Britons unaware of African conflicts - Red Cross survey
Author: Megan Rowling
Most Britons are unaware of major conflicts besides Iraq and Afghanistan, a Red Cross survey said on Wednesday.
Asked to name countries experiencing conflict, 69 percent of respondents identified Iraq and 65 percent Afghanistan - both war zones where the British military is engaged. But less than one percent identified major African conflict zones, including Sudan and Somalia.
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Author: Megan Rowling
Most Britons are unaware of major conflicts besides Iraq and Afghanistan, a Red Cross survey said on Wednesday.
Asked to name countries experiencing conflict, 69 percent of respondents identified Iraq and 65 percent Afghanistan - both war zones where the British military is engaged. But less than one percent identified major African conflict zones, including Sudan and Somalia.
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BOOK REVIEW: Why our climate change solutions are a mirage
Author: Megan Rowling
John Foster, author of the The Sustainability Mirage and a British academic in his late fifties, recalls his younger years as a green activist. "I remember the days when to stand up on a march in London and talk about this stuff was to be dismissed as a complete freak and a loony - 'woolly hatted lentil-stirrers' was the kind of thing people said about us."
Now, thanks to the growing scientific evidence about global warming, all that has changed. World leaders treat climate change and its consequences as a critically important issue. You'd have thought Foster would be pleased.
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Author: Megan Rowling
John Foster, author of the The Sustainability Mirage and a British academic in his late fifties, recalls his younger years as a green activist. "I remember the days when to stand up on a march in London and talk about this stuff was to be dismissed as a complete freak and a loony - 'woolly hatted lentil-stirrers' was the kind of thing people said about us."
Now, thanks to the growing scientific evidence about global warming, all that has changed. World leaders treat climate change and its consequences as a critically important issue. You'd have thought Foster would be pleased.
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Billions of dollars needed to protect Asia's coastal poor from disasters-report
Author: Thin Lei Win
BANGKOK, Sept 18 (AlertNet) - Governments must invest billions of dollars in preparing for disasters rather than spending aid cash on responding to emergencies, development agency World Vision said in a report released on Thursday.
It warns that tens of millions of people in the Asia Pacific region are in danger from rising sea levels and climate change-related disasters, which are predicted to become more frequent, severe and costly.
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Author: Thin Lei Win
BANGKOK, Sept 18 (AlertNet) - Governments must invest billions of dollars in preparing for disasters rather than spending aid cash on responding to emergencies, development agency World Vision said in a report released on Thursday.
It warns that tens of millions of people in the Asia Pacific region are in danger from rising sea levels and climate change-related disasters, which are predicted to become more frequent, severe and costly.
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Fears grow for displaced in Sri Lanka rebel zone as war intensifies
Author: Thin Lei Win
By Thin Lei Win
Aid workers fear uprooted civilians in the north of Sri Lanka could become trapped without enough assistance as fighting intensifies between government forces and separatist rebels.
On Sept. 9, the government ordered the United Nations and international non-governmental organisations to move out of rebel-held areas in the north, saying it could not guarantee their safety.
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Author: Thin Lei Win
By Thin Lei Win
Aid workers fear uprooted civilians in the north of Sri Lanka could become trapped without enough assistance as fighting intensifies between government forces and separatist rebels.
On Sept. 9, the government ordered the United Nations and international non-governmental organisations to move out of rebel-held areas in the north, saying it could not guarantee their safety.
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Aid agency study pinpoints climate change hotspots
Author: Megan Rowling
LONDON, August 22 (AlertNet) -- Climate change threatens to reverse progress in reducing deaths from disasters and sharply increase the number of people affected by droughts, floods and cyclones, a U.N.-backed study said on Friday.
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia are among countries that are particularly vulnerable to the more extreme weather scientists predict in coming decades, according to the report commissioned by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and relief agency CARE International.
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Author: Megan Rowling
LONDON, August 22 (AlertNet) -- Climate change threatens to reverse progress in reducing deaths from disasters and sharply increase the number of people affected by droughts, floods and cyclones, a U.N.-backed study said on Friday.
India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia are among countries that are particularly vulnerable to the more extreme weather scientists predict in coming decades, according to the report commissioned by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and relief agency CARE International.
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