Communities in Japan destroyed by the tsunami are years away from being righted, the Red Cross warned Friday, with many of the displaced stuck in temporary housing for a long time to come. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Host communities and refugees collect water from the rehabilitated water pumps at the border village of Buutuo in this handout photo released March 31, 2011. The IFRC, working with the Liberian Red Cross, has set up a water treatment plan... [Full Article]
(AFP) - A man waters tree seedlings bought from communities surrounding Maungu, a village some 304 kilometres southeast of Kenyan capital, Nairobi, as part of an effort to move away from a decades-old, and largely illegal, practice of chopping down f... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer representing the Amazonian communities sueing US oil company Chevron for supposedly damaging the environment, speaks during a press conference in Quito, April 2010. A court in Ecuador has ordered Chevron to pay an... [Full Article]
(EPA) - The Environmental Protection Agency has asked local US communities to test more carefully for hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen. After preliminary health studies, the EPA opted Wednesday to class the chemical known as chromium-6 as o... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, pictured here in May, has declared the "war on Christmas" is over, urging local authorities to stop avoiding the festival's Christian basis.(AFP/File)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Environmental activists representing communities opposed to the building of nuclear power plants wave windsocks while forming the shape of a pink dolphin in Nakhon Si Thammarat province, some 610 km (379 miles) south of Bangkok September ... [Full Article]
(AP) - Members of communities damaged by tsunami waves gather for a meeting to discuss funerals in Samoa’s capital, Apia, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, two days after deadly tsunami waves rolled through several South Pacific island nations. An earthq... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Members of the local Mapuche Indian communities gather during a "Xrawen" (meeting) at Puerto Dominguez town near Temuco city, some 677 km (420 miles) south of Santiago August 22, 2009. Members of the Mapuche communities are meet... [Full Article]