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[Reproductive Health | rhrealitycheck.org blogs] Global Climate Change: What Does it Mean for the World’s Women?: Wealready know that women suffer disproportionately in nearly all disasters:elderly women died at higher rates than older men in the European heat wave in2003, women vastly outnumbered men in tsunami deaths in 2004, women outnumberedmen in cyclone deaths in Bangladesh, and the list goes on. A study of 4,605natural disasters found that disasters shortened women's life expectancysignificantly more than men's (encouragingly, this association was reducedwhere women's status is more equal).
[The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG] Foreign readers beware! This is what happens to your education ...: I’ve studied at some of these top universities, and I won’t make judgement but my attitude to their effect, in fact, is ambivalent at best. I met some really nice Chinese and Nigerians though, and they (had) a really high opinion of us.
[OLYecology weblog] 285 - Earth's Tree News: There is no benefit at all in plundering the forests," Mr Suebu told reporters, during the Bali climate change conference. "A timber log is priced at US$10, but the price can climb to more than US$10000 after being processed into wooden .
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[UN Dispatch] There's a great piece on RH Reality Check today on the fact that while global climate change is, at long last, getting the attention it deserves, there needs to be more focus on how women are being disproportionately affected .