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Definitions
- Antibiotic resistance
- Biodiversity
- Bird flu
- Climate change & insect-borne disease
- Desert science
- Indigenious Knowledge
- Malaria
- Reducing forest emissions
- Tropical cyclones
- Tuberculosis
A directory of terms associated with tropical cyclones. (Sources: Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Cambridge Dictionary, the IPCC Fourth Assessment Reports and Wikipedia).
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing the world today. Long-term development planning must now include measures to deal with it.
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Adaptation
Adjustment of natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climate change, or its effects, that lessens damage or exploits beneficial opportunities.
Information Services
Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
Clean cooperation
Countries must cooperate to develop clean technologies. Joint technology innovation centres can help
Just add water
Policymakers must improve water storage to help developing countries adapt to climate change
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
