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Africa :
30 12 2009 Climate Change Or Political Change? United Nations (UN) Fifteenth Conference of the Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen has come and gone. My task here is largely academic.
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Tanzania: Let's Move Fast to Tackle Floods Threat
30 12 2009 Some parts of the country have started receiving rains after a long spell of severe drought. However, the rains have been unusually heavy in some areas to the extent of causing suffering and widespread damage.
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Health and climate experts must jointly tackle disease
30 12 2009 Climate and health experts must collaborate to fight climate-sensitive disease. Ethiopia is leading the way, says Hiwot Teka.
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Small forests a big help in curbing carbon
30 12 2009 Even if world leaders haven't finished the job with the global accord produced at the Copenhagen climate talks, the summit was not a total bust. That's because negotiators there outlined a landmark deal aimed at making money grow on trees.
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Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions - Science Daily
30 12 2009 Scientists documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.3 to 3 million years ago). This period is characterized by warm temperatures similar to those ...
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Zimbabwe: Hailstorm Leaves 54 Muzarabani Families Homeless
30 12 2009 THE hailstorm that hit parts of Muzarabani at the weekend rendered about 54 families homeless and in desperate need of shelter and food.
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CSR Reporting Improves in 2009, Though Not for All
30 12 2009 Two reports from the Social Investment Forum provide important updates on the status of corporate social responsibility reporting, both among the S&P 100 companies headquartered in the US, and among the 100 largest companies in ten emerging markets.
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The 20 Most Popular Stories of 2009
29 12 2009 What to make of the 20 most-read stories among the 2,350 (or so) articles and blog posts we ran during 2009? It's hard to make head or tails of them.
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Africa : Continent Can't Sit on Its Hands and Wait for Climate Justice
29 12 2009 allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience
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Kenya: When Shall We Ever Be Prepared?
29 12 2009 The deaths and destruction of property over the Christmas weekend in some parts of the country following unexpected rains is an unfortunate indicator of how poorly prepared we are to cope with a full-bodied El Nino.
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Kenya: Climate Change Set to Drive Migration
29 12 2009 Climate change is soon expected to be a major force fuelling human displacement, the United Nations has warned. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres predicts that climate change will be the biggest driver of displacement, both in and across borders.
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Kenya: Citizens Need Hard Facts From Met Department
29 12 2009 The Meteorological Department's attempts to absolve itself of blame over the heavy losses farmers in parts of the country are likely to incur following the failure of its heavily publicised El Nino rains is a desperate, if poorly executed, effort at cleansing its already tarnished image.
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Uganda: Northern Region to Go Green On Danish Grant
29 12 2009 Conservation efforts in northern Uganda have received a $902,255 boost in a climate adaptation move that will benefit an estimated one million people.
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Tanzania: Change Approach On Drought
29 12 2009 A prolonged drought is ravaging various parts of the country, but one is bound to ask whether leaders from the district to the regional levels are really in control of the situation.
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Kenya: Number of Carbon Projects Set to Increase
29 12 2009 All indications are that the number of climate change investment projects in Kenya will multiply in 2010.
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Kenya: Erratic Rains Bring Relief to Power Users
29 12 2009 Electricity consumers will start the year a happy lot as Kenya Power and Lighting Company reduces the fuel cost segment of the bills to be settled next month.
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Africa: Climate Change Conference - Here is China's Stand
29 12 2009 The UN Climate Change conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 7-19. During the last two days, 119 heads of state or government attended.
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Zimbabwe: Farmer Dies After Hailstorm Hoax
29 12 2009 A Karoi farmer collapsed and died on Monday last week after receiving news that his 10-hectare tobacco crop had been extensively damaged by a hailstorm that pounded the area.
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Scientists isolate new antifreeze molecule in Alaska beetle
29 12 2009 Scientists have identified a novel antifreeze molecule in a freeze-tolerant Alaska beetle able to survive temperatures below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Unlike all previously described biological antifreezes that contain protein, this new molecule, called xylomannan, has little or no protein. It is composed of a sugar and a fatty acid and may exist in new places within the cells of organisms.
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Chad : Drying, Drying, Disappearing
28 12 2009 Rome — Lake Chad was bigger than Israel less than 50 years ago. Today its surface area is less than a tenth of its earlier size, amid forecasts the lake could disappear altogether within 20 years.
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Scientists argue for a new type of climate target
28 12 2009 In order to avoid dangerous consequences for the earth's ecosystems, global emissions must peak around 2015, and they need to be cut by half between the peak and 2030, according to new findings.
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What Are You Excited Most About in 2010?
27 12 2009 As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
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Top 10 environmental moments of the decade
27 12 2009 What a difference a decade makes. The "Noughties" saw environmental issues come to the forefront with a marked shift toward all things green in politics, technology and perhaps most importantly, society.
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Hit SciDev.Net stories of 2009
25 12 2009 Which stories made a splash with our readers this year? That climate change was popular is no surprise, but there were unexpected results.
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Uganda: Jude Kafuuma and Raymond Baguma
25 12 2009 THE Archbishop of Kampala, Cyprian Lwanga, has called upon Uganda's leaders to promote unity and address global warming.
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