| IRIN: Today's most popular IRIN articles |
NAIROBI, 14 August 2007 (IRIN) - Here are the most popular new articles on the IRIN website over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly. This feature was launched on 18 July, but will display the latest, most popular items of today.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Environmentalists call for caution in mercury cleanup in north |
 ALMATY, 25 July 2007 (IRIN) - As a long-planned operation to clean up a major source of mercury pollution in northern Kazakhstan gets under way, environmentalists and academics are calling for caution in dealing with the highly toxic substance.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Alarm raised over deteriorating health of men |
 ALMATY, 12 July 2007 (IRIN) - Health experts in Kazakhstan have raised the alarm over deteriorating health among men, calling for action to address the social, economic and demographic consequences of rising male mortality rates and declining male life expectancy.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Locust invasion in west under control, officials say |
 ALMATY, 10 July 2007 (IRIN) - Officials in western Kazakhstan have denied local media reports that a locust invasion is threatening the region’s harvest, saying the swarms of Italian locusts, which have hit the area, are nowhere near agricultural land.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Regional cooperation seen as key in fight against drugs |
 ALMATY, 27 June 2007 (IRIN) - As Kazakhstan marked international anti-narcotics day on 26 June, health officials expressed cautious optimism that the fight against drugs is showing some progress. There has been a drop in the number of registered drug users, and plans for a regional body which will help combat the drug trade are moving ahead, say officials.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Efforts under way to save Lake Balkhash |
 ALMATY, 3 May 2007 (IRIN) - Efforts are under way to agree to an eco-based system which will promote sustainable development at Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash and prevent further environmental damage to waters and wetlands, say specialists. At the same time, environmentalists say there are indications that the lake could shrink and become as environmentally-ravaged as the Aral Sea.
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| CENTRAL ASIA: Regional water management lacks cohesion |
 ALMATY, 25 April 2007 (IRIN) - As officials and water specialists from across Central Asia gathered in the Kazakh commercial capital of Almaty to mark a decade and a half of post-Soviet efforts to regulate scarce water supplies in the region, there are doubts about whether they are prepared to make committed efforts to assure water security for the region’s more than 55 million inhabitants.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Southern mineral mining industry centre hit by floods |
 ALMATY, 17 April 2007 (IRIN) - Heavy downpours in southern Kazakhstan have flooded 200 houses and mining facilities in the mineral industry centre of Kentau, the Ministry of Emergencies (MOE) has said.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Fighting tuberculosis remains a challenge |
 ALMATY , 19 March 2007 (IRIN) - Kazakhstan still faces a serious challenge in fighting tuberculosis (TB), despite infection rates dropping slightly in 2006, according to health officials.
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| KAZAKHSTAN: Emergency workers braced for ice jam floods |
 ALMATY , 14 March 2007 (IRIN) - Emergency workers are bracing themselves for possible flooding in southern Kazakhstan as an anticipated cold snap is expected to further aggravate an ice jam blocking a major river.
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