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14/6/2013
Governments may this year launch a global framework to tie together national and
regional greenhouse gas reduction efforts, a move that U.N.
climate negotiators meeting in Germany this week said could lay the groundwork for a global carbon ...
11/6/2013
Researchers for the first time mapped the extent and frequency of understory fires across a study area (green) spanning 1.2 million square miles (3 million square kilometers) in the southern Amazon forest. Fires were widespread across the forest ...
7/6/2013
Using an innovative satellite technique, NASA scientists have determined that a previously unmapped type of wildfire in the Amazon rainforest is responsible for destroying several times more forest than has been lost through
deforestation in ...
7/6/2013
A new report says that the world will need to more than double food production over the next 40 years to feed an expanding global population. But as the world's food needs are rapidly increasing, the planet's capacity to produce food confronts ...
5/6/2013
The Philippines is to receive more than P700 million from the German government for the implementation of two projects for
climate change mitigation and the protection of flora and fauna, officials said Tuesday.
The Department of ...
13/5/2013
Deforestation may significantly decrease the hydroelectric potential of tropical rainforest regions, warns a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The study, led by Claudia M. Stickler at the ...
13/5/2013
The loss of tropical rain forests is likely to reduce the energy output of hydroelectric projects in countries like Brazil that are investing billions of dollars to create power to support economic growth. That is the conclusion of a ...
10/5/2013
Brazil is at risk of scoring an economic own goal if it continues clearing Amazon forest for herding and soya production, according to a new study that has potential implications for global food security.
In recent decades, the ...
8/5/2013
The hula-hoop first caught on in the US state of California, as did crack cocaine. For better or worse, that's where trends originate before they sweep the nation and, often, the world. So it's apropos that California is closely engaging with the ...
23/4/2013
It is estimated that 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface area is made up of oceans,1 the most productive habitat, comprising 75 per cent of all known species. This unique environment, which remains generally unexplored and hidden from the world, ...
21/4/2013
From 1971 to 2000, the world's land areas were the warmest they have been in at least 1,400 years, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. The massive new study, involving 80 researchers from around the world with the Past Global Changes ...
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 ...
12/4/2013
In Haiti, a simple spring shower that would barely be noticed in most countries can cause devastating floods, due to the severe
deforestation and erosion that impedes the absorption of rain.
And the increasing frequency and intensity of ...
10/4/2013
Nascent carbon emissions-trading exchanges in several countries are increasingly looking at options to interlink with one another, which advocates say would offer investors long-term stability, increase revenues for the development of renewable ...
31/3/2013
This spring could be the most miserable one ever for those of us with allergies, and we can blame it on
climate change.
People in the Northeast, in particular, will be among the hardest hit in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and this ...
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
On the first International Day of Forests, celebrated Thursday by the United Nations, Jose Graziano da Silva proposed that all countries support a Zero Illegal
Deforestation target.
FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, second ...
4/3/2013
In the last 15 years 200,000 hectares of the Mau Forest in western Kenya have been converted to agricultural land. Previously called a “water tower” because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; ...
27/2/2013
Each of Cuba's 168 municipalities faces the challenge of designing its own strategic development which, as well as economic and social progress, minimises the impact of extreme weather and other problems caused by global warming.
"One ...
30/1/2013
It took over two-and-a-half-years for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics to finally accept a paper outlining a new meteorological hypothesis in which condensation, not temperature, drives winds. If proven correct, the hypothesis could ...
23/1/2013
James Hansen has been publicly speaking about
climate change since 1988. The NASA climatologist testified to Congress that year and he's been testifying ever since to crowds large and small, most recently to a small gathering of religious leaders ...
21/1/2013
Today, nearly 65 billion animals worldwide, including cows, chickens and pigs, are crammed into CAFOs.
A growing number of organic consumers, natural health advocates and
climate hawks are taking a more comprehensive look at the ...
31/12/2012
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast in late October, everyone from Bill McKibben to Andrew Cuomo declared the storm our wake-up call on
climate change. Now we would finally have that serious conversation we’d been meaning to get around ...
27/12/2012
"When someone in Peru sneezes, someone in Brazil catches a cold. When a barrel of oil is produced in Ecuador, a neighbouring country ends up buying it," says prominent environmentalist Yolanda Kakabadse.
Everything that happens in Latin ...
4/12/2012
Brenda Salazar has her sights set on two things: a good organic cacao harvest for the cooperative she belongs to in northern Nicaragua, and for the governments of Central America to heed the ideas of peasant farmers who have organised to fight ...