Rain forest town tackles drought crisis
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A drought-hit resort town in Canada's Pacific rain forest is trucking in water to avert a total shutdown, but hotels and other businesses will have to severely limit consumption, the mayor said on Friday.
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By Courtney Sherwood  Columbian staff writer  Lightning sparks a drought-fueled wildfire. Water bursts through a remote dike. Rumbling deep below the ground portends a coming earthquake.
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Parts of Jakarta are beginning to dry out from the week1s devastating floods
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Most of the country experiences heavy rain as the miserable spell of damp weather continues.
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Doctors risk treacherous landing conditions to reach sick people in some of the most remote parts of the world's largest rainforest
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NHULUNBUY, Australia  - As the campfire burns slowly, a group of Aborigines build a "place of healing" in a remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using traditional bush medicines.
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Shops are reopening and telephone lines are back up, but reconstruction in the impoverished eastern Philippines province of Albay after deadly mudflows could take years, officials say.
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There's no end in sight to the agony of millions of displaced people, but servicing the needs of the thousands of aid workers and peacekeepers has created an economic boom in a dusty northern town
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By Mario Osava/IFEJ *  RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 12, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- The impoverished population of the Brazilian Northeast is preparing for long-term coexistence with drought.
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An environmental group says a Coca-Cola bottling plant in the drought-stricken state of Rajasthan is depleting scarce water supplies.
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By Jaswinder Kaur  KINABATANGAN: An eco-tourism project launched five years ago in Kampung Sukau is helping villagers in more ways than one.  It has put food on the table for some 600 villagers who realised that farming and fishing were not enough to make ends meet.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land. Now, experts fear the war and its refugee crisis are making the environment even worse, leaving the land increasingly uninhabitable and intensifying tensions with no end to the drought in sight.
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A thin winter green  carpets Australia&#39;s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging  the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation&#39;s food bowl.
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Â· Torrential rains claim The Field's celebrated bridgeÂ· Country hit by flash floods, landslips and closed roads
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By Erik Robinson and Jose Paul Corona, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 8--Just because Southwest Washington is due for a little rain this weekend, don't expect area firefighters to breathe easy.
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Massive fires that ravaged Indonesia's vast tropical rain forests over the last decade are remaking one of the richest biological landscapes on the planet.
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TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - Instead of battling flames, a forest-fire fighting crew from northern British Columbia is battling rising flood waters in Telkwa, just east of Smithers, B.C.