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Alaska on fire while Lower 48 girds for summer wildfires
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Fairbanks is smoky. Anchorage is smoky. To be in Alaska this early June is to see skies of haze, mixed with the scent of burning forests.
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Fairbanks is smoky. Anchorage is smoky. To be in Alaska this early June is to see skies of haze, mixed with the scent of burning forests.
Hundreds of protesters rallied yesterday behind three women petitioning the Namibian government to end the practice of forced sterilization of HIV-positive patients.
Not many people have heard of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, nor the Athabaskan Tar Sands. Not these days, anyway, with the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But in Fort Chipewyan, the ongoing effects of bitumen oil extraction continue as the top news of the day.
As South Africans play host for the 2010 World Cup, they may also inadvertently play host to human traffickers as thousands children are off school for the month-long games.