| DISASTERS: Insuring against dry days in Africa |
 | NOUAKCHOTT/JOHANNESBURG، 12/6/2012 (IRIN) - Soaring temperatures and the severity of this year’s drought have taken some by surprise in southeastern and eastern Mauritania. When rains are normal people only dip into their cereal reserves from June/July in the following year, but in mid-2012 people have already been without food for more than three months, and many pastoralists in the region have lost the animals on which they depend for a living. full report |
| GLOBAL: New IRIN publication to mark Rio+20 |
 | RIO DE JANEIRO، 13/6/2012 (IRIN) - Ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), popularly known as the Rio+20 Conference, IRIN has released a new publication "Living with Climate Change", that contains a series of articles compiled into a booklet. full report |
| RIO+20: Sticky issues and hope |
 | RIO DE JANEIRO، 14/6/2012 (IRIN) - “The pace is too slow” and “there is a lack of urgency”, grumbled a negotiator as preparatory talks on the final political outcome document limped back to motion on 13 June at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, also known Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. full report |