As debate heats up on whether aid air drops should be used in Mynamar, Oxfam points out that often when aid has been parachuted to a disaster or conflict zone it has been hugely expensive and failed to reach the most vulnerable people.
From:
Oxfam Great Britain
Image: Emergency air drops: fact, or flight of fancy? © Oxfam Great Britain
14.05.2008
One week after appeal lines opened, £6 million has been raised for the Myanmar Cyclone Appeal.
Food Aid Reaches Thousands in Burma
13.05.2008
More than 27,000 people in the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma -- one of the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis -- have received food aid and other crucial supplies, a UN food agency announced yesterday.
From:
United Nations
13.05.2008
Climate scientists are ready to bet serious money that recent global cooling predictions are wrong.
From: RealClimate
From: RealClimate
Image: Dicing with the climate © Oxfam Great Britain
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From Prospect magazine
From Prospect magazine
Queen and Country by artist Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is at the Royal Festival Hall, at the beginning of a national tour.
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