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Until recently, Haitian journalist Michele Montas was on call 24/7 for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon. When she retired from her post, she vowed to do ‘three months of nothing’. However, that was before an earthquake destroyed her home city.

A leaked document on climate change is causing furor and driving a wedge between rich and poor countries at the worldwide summit in Copenhagen. We talk with Andrew Revkin, of The New York Times and Richie Ahuja of the Environmental Defense Fund.

The United Nations says that in 30 years, there may be no ice left in the Arctic if we don’t do more to stop global warming. The Takeaway talks to Janos Pazstor of the UN’s Climate Change Support Team and Anthony Russell of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Are the retreating glaciers of Mount Kilamanjaro really the iconic symbol of climate change? Joining us to explain this is Doug Hardy from the University of Massachusetts.

The World’s Katy Clark reports on the dire situation in Burma following last weekend’s cyclone where international aid has begun arriving but some aid groups are still complaining that the government is dragging its heels