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Julio Godoy

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Julio Godoy

There’s no place like home

There’s no place like home

Mine waste is everywhere. From cities to towns to farms to nature reserves, polluted water and air have landed on the doorsteps of millions of people.

‘Ocean fertilisation’ or extreme pollution?

When some multinational companies dump chemicals into the sea, they call it ”ocean fertilisation”. This practice is near the top of the agenda at the United Nations conference on…

Development and security in exchange for small arms

Increasing international cooperation in exchange for guns and improving the sense of domestic security are promising strategies for reducing the number of small weapons in the…

EU spends too little on HIV research, say activists

The European Union must substantially increase financial resources for research on a vaccine against HIV, which causes Aids, leading non-governmental activists say. Ann Katrin…

Are African immigrants necessary for Europe?

Of more than 30Â 000 African refugees who landed on the Spanish Canary Islands last year, few had time to see the statue towering above the small port Garachico. And if they did,…

Sea level may rise more than 1m by 2100

Ocean levels will rise faster than expected if greenhouse-gas emissions continue to rise, a leading German researcher warns. Using Nasa data, Stefan Rahmstorf, professor of…

Europe’s immigrant women face growing Aids threat

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Immigrant women are becoming some of the main victims of new HIV transmissions in several European…

Rwanda’s war shifts to the tribunals

An international arrest warrant against nine close aides of Rwanda’s Tutsi President, Paul Kagame, on a charge of participating in the assassination of former Hutu leader Juvenal…

China reaches into Europe’s African ‘backyard’

The new African-Chinese economic and diplomatic partnership, manifested in the pact signed by China and 48 African countries in Beijing this month, is unsettling European leaders…

When children leave on a one-way holiday

Felix Moncada Suarez and his family had prepared themselves to board the flight from Roissy airport near Paris for the Ecuador capital Quito on the evening of May 19. It was not…