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Al-Kadhimain mosque in Iraq. / Photo credit: Photo Stock
By Diego Cevallos

War Could Wipe Out Ancient History

Iraq, set in the cradle of Western civilization, holds 10,000 archeological sites with countless secrets still to be deciphered. Experts fear that the war will bury many of them forever.

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By Carla Maldonado

“We hope for some sensitivity from the military”
A special UNESCO team will assess the damage to Iraq’s cultural heritage caused by the war, which poses numerous threats to this historic legacy, said Mounir Bouchenaki, assistant director of the organization, in a conversation with Tierramérica.

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By Rahul Goswami

Do We Face a Global Quarantine?

Thousands of cases of a new and potentially lethal form of pneumonia have been reported in the past few weeks, but while the virus spreads, experts realize how little they know about severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS.

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Children in northern Iraq. Source: UN Oil for Food Program

Humanitarian Emergency
The war in Iraq has caused a humanitarian emergency affecting 27 million people. The conflict has obvious repercussions for a civilian population that is already suffering the lack of health care, food, water and housing, even if they are not directly threatened by bombs and bullets.

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Mexican activists seek national emergency for forest fires... Banned pesticide dug up in Argentina... Environmental bureaucracy streamlined in Colombia.

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