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Climate justice and ethics
Rich industrialised countries, with their greater carbon dioxide emissions, carry much of the responsibility for causing climate change, but the burdens of climate impacts fall disproportionately on poorer, largely tropical countries. "Climate justice" movements and initiatives seek to deal with that imbalance in a variety of ways, including having richer countries help poorer ones adopt cleaner energy systems and adapt to the inevitable impacts of climate change.
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African immigrants rescued in Malta
A group of 130 Sub-Saharan African migrants were rescued by Armed Forces of Malta south of the Maltese islands when their boat ran into difficulties in June 8, 2014, according to army sources
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Fukushima: Searching for loved ones
The disaster in March 2011 killed nearly 16,000 people along Japan's northeastern coast and left more than 2,500 missing. Family members continue to look for the bodies of their missing loved ones, when access to the area is permitted, as they still try to bring closure to their loss.
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As worsening storms slam the Caribbean, St. Vincent fights back
Facing worsening extreme weather, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is making plans to better protect itself
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Eternally displaced: Afghanistan’s escalating crisis
In 2016 the conflict - a continued battle for control between beleaguered Afghan forces and both ISIS and the Taliban - has led to unprecedented levels of displacement, with 1.5 million internally-displaced and 3 million refugees. Almost 1 million people, half of whom are children, have already returned from Iran and Pakistan. At least half a million more are expected to return this year, despite a starkly deteriorating economic, political and security situation within the country.
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