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23/5/2013
Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometers to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh's arid Barind ...
21/5/2013
Land degradation — more specifically drought and
desertification — have become increasingly pressing problems for a growing number of countries around the world, threatening efforts to alleviate poverty, improve basic health and sanitation and ...
11/5/2013
THE world’s worrisome decline in biodiversity is well known. Some experts say we are well on our way toward the sixth great extinction and that by 2100 half of all the world’s plant and animal species may disappear.Yet one of the most ...
11/5/2013
While the planet hurtles inexorably toward catastrophic
climate change, progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through carbon capture and storage (CCS) is moving at a glacial pace, an international symposium on CCS was told here ...
3/5/2013
The UN
climate conference in Bonn, Germany concluded with delegates expressing tempered optimism that a new global pact may be within reach. There remain strong divisions as developing nations demanded increased support.
The latest round ...
27/4/2013
Here’s a “Your Dot” contribution pushing back against apocalyptic depictions of the collision between humans and the
climate system — written by Peter B. Kelemen, the Arthur D. Storke Professor and vice chair in the Department of Earth and ...
25/4/2013
Climate change is in part to blame for rising conflict and crime in Nigeria, according to the president's National Security Advisor, Colonel Sambo Dasuki. Speaking to the House Committee on
Climate Change, Dasuki said that the rise of Boko Haram ...
25/4/2013
When the wildfire reached Jon Cummings’ backyard last summer, it had already traversed 50 miles of rugged terrain in Idaho’s Salmon-Challis National Forest. Thick smoke dimmed daylight and embers sailed on hot currents. While firefighters were ...
17/4/2013
Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, according to new research released by the UN
Desertification Convention (UNCCD).
The figure, based on submissions from countries to the UN, is a marked increase on ...
17/4/2013
Stretching from Dakar to Djibouti, a United Nations-backed programme dubbed the 'Great Green Wall` brings together 11 countries to plant trees across Africa to literally hold back the Sahara desert with a swathe of greenery, lessen the effects of ...
15/4/2013
The US and China have announced plans to accelerate joint efforts to tackle
climate change, warning that the "inadequacy of the global response requires a more focused and urgent initiative".
The two countries issued a joint statement at ...
12/4/2013
Uzbekistan will host a roundtable on measures related to combating
desertification and land degradation as well as improving the condition of land and water conservation.
The event will be held during a visit by Executive Secretary of ...
9/4/2013
Tanzania could join the list of leading African nations in greenhouse gas emissions in the future. This is if its ambitious plans to utilize coal and natural gas for power generation will not take environmental conservation into account, an ...
7/4/2013
In its glory days during the 1960s, Lake Chad was 38,000 square kilometres of sparkling blue-green water that nourished humans, animals and plant life in the four countries it straddled: Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. The lake, on the edge of ...
6/4/2013
Our planet is already showing the stress of radical
climate change, affecting the Earth right before our eyes. The
climate is different than when we were kids, and it is changing more rapidly than ever before. Accordingly, the underlying thesis ...
6/4/2013
The federal government recently pulled out of the UN Convention to Combat
Desertification.It's aimed at fighting drought, a problem that affects almost 30% of Earth's land surface and threatens the well-being of more than a billion people ...
3/4/2013
In 2006, the prominent British economist Nicholas Stern issued a groundbreaking report on the potential impacts of
climate change for the British government. Looking back after eight years, Stern says, "From the point of view of science, the ...
2/4/2013
The Government of Canada is quietly withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat
Desertification, UNCCD, the only legally binding international treaty that addresses
desertification, land degradation and drought.
The decision of Stephen ...
31/3/2013
Why, suddenly, has the federal government chosen to withdraw from a United Nations convention to combat drought, making Canada an outlier among 194 nations, the only country in the world outside the agreement?
Is International ...
29/3/2013
About 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China’s state maps, an absence seized upon by environmentalists as evidence of the irreversible natural cost of developmental excesses.More than half of the rivers previously thought to exist in ...
28/3/2013
Canada defended its decision to pull out of a United Nations convention that fights the spread of droughts just a month before a major gathering would have forced the country to confront scientific analysis on the effects of
climate ...
24/3/2013
On the first International Day of Forests, celebrated by the United Nations today, FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva proposed that countries support a Zero Illegal Deforestation target in the context of the post-2015 ...
22/3/2013
The new pope's choice of the name Francis, to honour the Catholic Church's patron saint of animals and the environment, has awakened the hopes of ecologists and others who are concerned about rampant consumerism and the deterioration of the ...
15/3/2013
U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that
climate change would increase their frequency and severity.
Droughts cause more deaths and displacement than floods or earthquakes, making them the world's ...
13/3/2013
U.N. agencies are calling on governments at a high-level meeting this week to start reacting more quickly to warnings of drought and put in place national policies to prepare for longer and worse droughts.
"In the next decade to come, ...