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    Top 10 Posts for May 2016

    June 17, 2016 By Schuyler Null
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    Last year was the hottest on record and 2016 is shaping up to be even worse. Along with soaring temperatures though, climate change is most likely to affect you via water. A World Bank report released last month found that the difference between good and bad water management over the next four decades could swing GDP for some regions as much as 20 percent.

    Fortunately, we’re getting better at adapting. Drought in Ethiopia this year, exacerbated by a strong El Niño, is the most severe since the infamous 1983-84 famine. But the government and aid agencies have learned much since then, creating an effective food safety net program and more flexible development programs that can quickly switch to humanitarian crisis response, writes USAID’s Greg Collins.

    1. Water Is the Climate Challenge, Says World Bank, Schuyler Null

    2. South Sudan’s Broken Oil Industry Increasingly Becoming a Hazard, Wim Zwijnenburg

    3. The Future of the Sustainable Development Goals, Gracie Cook

    4. How Zika Is Shaping the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Agenda, Francesca Cameron

    5. How Successful Were the Millennium Development Goals? A Final Report, Josh Feng

    6. Turning the Impending Mosul Dam Disaster Into Opportunity, Azzam Alwash

    7. Will China’s New Air Law Solve its Pollution Crisis?, Cai Jingjing and Joyce Tang

    8. Behind the Headlines, Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East, Anders Jägerskog and Ashok Swain

    9. Ethiopian Drought Response a Sign of How Far We’ve Come and Where We Need to Go, Greg Collins

    10. Feeding the Future? A Closer Look at U.S. Agricultural Assistance in Tanzania, Haodan “Heather” Chen

    Photo Credit: Flooding in Colombia, courtesy of Scott Wallace/World Bank.

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