Politics

International Day for Disaster Reduction

IDDR image; Credit: © UNISDR With the International Day of Disaster Reduction (IDDR) concentrating on the situation of our one billion disabled people in these events, the need is to...

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International Day of the Girl (Child)

The International Day of the Girl is upon us once again - but this is incredibly only the second one! - IDG image; Credit: © Day of the Girl And...

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World Teachers' Day 2013

The 2013 logo implies a call to and for teachers worldwide. There's a desperate shortage, even in most developed countries. I wonder why? WTD image; Credit: © UNESCO When they...

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World Animal Day 2013

The Big Day for all animals and their friends, to think about both wild and domestic speciesWAD image; Credit: © World Animal Day Based on Francis of Assisi's feast day,...

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Arctic Exploitation - Murmansk Pirates

Oil platform in the Arctic Ocean; Credit: © Shutterstock Greenpeace have been responsible for many crimes against those who challenge nature. The Russian insistence that there was a threat to...

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Major Majuro Declaration

The Cook Islands are among those atolls that really can't afford any rise in sea level. This shot shows Aitutaki, for the initiated; island image; Credit: © Shutterstock When the...

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International Literacy Day 2013

The use of literacy in the past shows us that future technologies can both benefit and arise from the empowerment of literacy among people; literacy; Credit: UNESCO Since 1966, which...

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International Day Against Nuclear Testing

The image of our nuclear past inhibits any thoughts of a nuclear future with testing, or any other kind of unrestricted nuclear action; Nuclear bomb explosion; Credit: © Shutterstock At...

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Ecuador dumps the Amazon's most biodiverse reserve

Phyllomedusa camba, the monkey tree frog, is so far unaffected by loss of habitat, but with chytrid fungus threatening, who knows how long even the common species will last, when...

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Water-wise?

While there seems to be plenty of water in some places such as Lake Pepin here at the broadest expanse of the Mississippi, many parts of the Americas and the...

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