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Desertification (Google / Environment)
Desertification | Web log 12 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://envrionment.blogspot.com/2008/10/desertification.htmlDesertification Posted by vijayDesertification is the degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas, resulting primarily from human activities and influenced by climatic variations. A major impact of desertification is biodiversity loss and loss of productive capacity, for example, by transition from land dominated by shrublands to non-native [...]
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End of our affair with air travel?
The Independent | Climate change | News 12 10 2008 Air travel is declining for the first time in almost 20 years, The Independent on Sunday discloses today. Airline failures, harder economic times and a dismal airport experience have caused a sharp downturn in the number of travellers boarding planes at British airports. 
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The climate change unbelievers
The Independent | Climate change | News 12 10 2008 The caption calls him the "high priest of deceit and global destruction". The picture has him belching fire like a dragon. And who is the subject of this highly personal attack? None other than Al Gore, who last year won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their success in bringing the climate-change crisis to global public attention.
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The Great Green Wall (Google / Igneous Quill)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://igneousquill.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-green-wall.htmlThe Great Green WallBack in the 1980s I remember seeing one of those public service announcements about doing something good, and one of the scenes was of people planting trees in the sands of a desert. I laughed at that, until my oldest brother explained the problem of desertification [...]
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SDI-Africa - GIS & remote sensing news in Africa - October 2008
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read at : Kate Lance
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Africans and Their Animals Can All Win (Google / The Watchdog)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read t : Google Aleert - desertificationhttp://www.zambianwatchdog.com/?p=147Africans and Their Animals Can All WinThis can be controversial. Rich hunters are willing to pay €10,000 or more to shoot an African elephant or a mature lion, money that would go a long way to supporting local livelihoods and conservation of these species but which would collide [...]
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IFAD: Troubled Waters (Google / Oneclimate)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.oneclimate.net/2008/10/02/ifad-troubled-waters/IFAD: Troubled WatersAn IFAD-supported project in the south of Jordan helps poor farmers better manage soil and water resources in one of the world’s top ten water-poor countries.Video by IFADTV on YouTube
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UNU Hosts Environmental Refugee Conference (googlme / Climate-L)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.climate-l.org/2008/10/unu-hosts-envir.htmlUNU Hosts Environmental Refugee Conference9 October 2008: The UN University (UNU) is hosting the International Conference on Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability, which is taking place in Bonn, Germany, from 9-11 October 2008. The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and International Organization for [...]
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UN focuses on human cost of environmental change (Google / The Spec.)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/448263UN focuses on human cost of environmental changeWade Hemsworth The Hamilton Spectator (Oct 10, 2008)Environmental disasters including floods, more severe and more numerous storms, desertification and famine will push as many as 200 million people from their homes around the world by 2050, the United Nations warns. Environmental migration, [...]
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A tool to assess the risk of desertification (Google / Innovations Report)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.innovationsreport.de/html/berichte/umwelt_naturschutz/a_tool_assess_risk_desertification_119976.htmlA tool to assess the risk of desertificationResearchers from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have established a method based on dynamic simulation models to define the indicators for the risk of desertification of a particular region in the long term, thus forecasting whether or not the current situation [...]
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Xeriscaping: Gardening in Seasons of Drought (Google / gardening-techniques.suite101)
Desertification | Web log 11 10 2008 Neither the pleasure of gardening, nor an outstanding appearance of one’slandscape has to be abandoned in seasons of drought.
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Paper usage: A greener office
The Economist | Environment 11 10 2008 How much paper does an American office worker generate? THE notion of the “paperless office” was first mooted in the 1960s, when it seemed that computers and hard disks would do away with the need to print out everything in triplicate. What actually happened was that global consumption of office paper more than doubled in the last two decades of the 20th century, as digital technology made printing cheaper and easier. Yet the prediction may be coming true at last. America's white-collar workers have been generating less paper since 2001, and that trend is likely to continue, according to InfoTrends, a consultancy. The explanation seems to be sociological: younger workers, who have grown up with electronic communication, feel less need to print documents than their older colleagues. ...
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WHO sets the agenda for climate and health research
SciDev | Climate change | News 10 10 2008 The WHO has developed a research agenda to better understand the human health impacts of climate change.
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Companies behind on biofuel reporting
ClimateChangeCorp | News 10 10 2008 Report: several oil companies failing to report biofuels meeting environmental standards
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LSE launches climate change research institute
ClimateChangeCorp | News 10 10 2008 Nicholas Stern will lead production of research and analysis on responses to warming
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“GLOBAL CHANGE: Enough Water for all?”
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : “Dr.J.L.Lozan”
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Middle East : Water Issues (Google / MS Levantine)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://mslevantine.blogspot.com/2008/10/water-issues-in-middle-east.htmlSunday, October 05, 2008Water Issues in the Middle Eastby Ms LevantineMore than a dozen countries in the Middle East and Africa compete for water from three rivers (Tigris, Nile and Jordan). The level of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, has receded about 3 feet (1 meter) [...]
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Desertification and poverty : Gardening for the Hungry (Dave’s Garden)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 How to help the poor and hungry to food, particularly in desertified areas ?Read at : Dave’s Garden Weekly Newsletterhttp://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1612/?utm_source=nl_2008-10-06&utm_medium=emailGardening for the HungryBy Lois Tilton (LTilton)October 3, 2008There are many ways that gardeners can help feed the hungry, from an extra row in your own garden to a community project. Here are some suggestions straight [...]
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Photo Essay: The 2008 World Expo (Google / World Changing)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008815.htmlPhoto Essay: The 2008 World ExpoWorldChanging TeamOctober 8, 2008 3:28 PMby Justine Bayod EspozWe encourage submissions from members of Worldchanging’s global audience who volunteer to write up their notes from conferences, workshops and other worldchanging happenings they participate in. If you’d like to contribute your own report, [...]
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Climate change could force millions from homes (Google / Reuters)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL8617579.htmlClimate change could force millions from homesBARCELONA, Spain, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Environmental damage such as desertification or flooding caused by climate change could force millions of peoples from their homes in the next few decades, experts said on Wednesday. “All indicators show we are dealing with a major [...]
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UNCCD/CRIC/CST : UN environmentalists to gather in Turkey (Google / World Bulletin)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=29450UN environmentalists to gather in TurkeyThe international community has long recognized that desertification is a major economic, social and environmental problem of concern to many countries in all regions of the world. The seventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention [...]
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CRIC/CST : United Nations committees to meet in Turkey (Google / Hurriyet)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10081056.asp?scr=1United Nations committees to meet in Turkey’s IstanbulThe seventh session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will be held in Istanbul back to back with the First Special Session of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST) [...]
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Nigeria: Desertification Commission Bill Scales Second Senate Hurdle (Google / allAfrica / Daily Trust)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - desertificationhttp://allafrica.com/stories/200810080283.htmlNigeria: Desertification Commission Bill Scales Second Senate HurdleDaily Trust (Abuja)8 October 2008Abdul-Rahman Abubakar & Turaki A. HassanThe proposed National Desertification Commission yesterday scaled the crucial second reading stage at the Senate when the bill was unanimously passed. The bill however faced initial opposition from mainly southern senators who pushed [...]
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Eden Reforestation Projects
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Learn more about two fantastic videos !Read at : Eden Projectshttp://www.edenprojects.org/media/We’re working to plant 5,000,000 (million!) trees in the next year.And at $0.10 a seedling, we need only $500,000 to do it.Help us get the word out Post one or more of the videos on your site, and link to www.edenprojects.org.The videos are [...]
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Tech-savvy Australia computes drought solutions (Google / Circle of Blue/Water News)
Desertification | Web log 10 10 2008 Read at : Google Alert - droughthttp://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/world/asia-pacific/tech-savvy-australia-computes-drought-solutions/Tech-savvy Australia computes drought solutionsCould technology help alleviate the dilemma facing the Murray-Darling River Basin? Professor Gary Jones of eWater Cooperative Research Centre thinks it can and now he has six million dollars to prove it. RiverManager, a forecasting tool that connects groundwater data with surface water science, [...]
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