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11 October
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Kenya: Predicting Weather With Science and Spider Webs
When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living on the islands of Kenya's Lake Victoria and on the highlands near the lake know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.
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AllAfrica.com |
Cameroon: Illegal Loggers Flee Gov't Crackdown Forces
Illegal loggers in the forests of Ndoumbie, Ndongo, Ndemba and Guekong in the Lom et Djerem Division of the East Province have reportedly fled as government forces stormed the region to track them down and confiscate the logged wood.
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AllAfrica.com |
Nigeria: GEF Spends N1.53 Billion On Climate Change, Biodiversity
The Global Environment Facility [GEF] programme has spent US 11.3m and US 5.7m [about N1.53bn] for the mitigation of climate change and biodiversity respectively in Nigeria, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Urban Development, said in Abuja yesterday.
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AllAfrica.com |
Africa: World Food Day Stresses Climate Change And Bioenergy Effects On Poor
Climate change and bioenergy are the focus of this year's World Food Day activities, expected to involve over 150 countries. FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945.
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AllAfrica.com |
Nigeria: Osunbor Faults Oshiomhole on Benin City Floods
GOVERNOR Oserhiemen Osunbor of Edo State, yesterday, reacted to the claim by the governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC), Comrade Adams Oshiomohle, that the people of the state are suffering the problems of flooding and erosion because of the alleged failure of the state government to construct drainage systems and gutters before embarking on road construction.
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AllAfrica.com |
Keeping track of climate change
It can often seem like hard work keeping track of the changes happening to our planet. Another day, another new prediction. Another week, another warning. It's enough to make even the most conscientious climate change student issue a weary discombobulated sigh.
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CNN |
Global warming threatens tropics
If you can't stand global warming, get out of the tropics.
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CNN |
McCain, Obama and the environment
When it comes to successful electioneering, Bill Clinton's unofficial 1992 campaign mantra for the U.S. presidency, "It's the economy, stupid" often holds true, but what about the environment?
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CNN |
Could landfills resurrect Britain's mining industry?
Imagine an air-tight dome with teams of robots working alongside people in space suits as they sift through the corrosive waste of past generations, looking for scraps of plastic and nuggets of precious metals.
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Environment Data Interactive Exchange |
Barroso urges summit not to lose sight of climate crisis
The main focus of the European Council next week will "rightly" be on the financial crisis, but "decisive progress" must also be made on the climate change and energy package andon the Lisbon Treaty, Commission PresidentJos Manuel Barrosostressed ahead of the summit.
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EurActiv |
MEPs push for efficiency in long-term EU energy strategy
Energy efficiency can increase the EU's energy independence and should take centre stage inthe Commission's upcoming second strategic energyreview,argue a group of MEPsin a letter to future EU presidencies.
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EurActiv |
'Landmark consensus' on forests' pivotal climate role
Meeting in Barcelona on 8 October, representatives of governments, forest owners and forestry companies, trade unions and civil society urged world leaders to take into account the "pivotal role" forests can play in mitigating climate change.
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EurActiv |
US wildfires pushed ozone past legal limits
Californian fires in 2007 pushed levels of the pollutant way past what is considered safe the effects may have been felt as far as Nevada
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New Scientist |
The greenhouse effect that may be cooling the climate
The roofs of Spanish horticulture hothouses are reflecting so much sunlight that local temperatures have dropped in recent decades
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New Scientist |
Climate change 'threatens biodiversity in tropics'
Climate change may soon make the tropics too hot for many native species, which will be forced to head for higher ground to escape the heat, US researchers said yesterday.
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The Independent |
Claim That Simulated Temperature Trends For Tropics Inconsistent With Observations Is Flawed, Expert...
Scientists have helped reconcile the differences between simulated and observed temperature trends in the tropics. They have refuted a recent claim that simulated temperature trends in the tropics are fundamentally inconsistent with observations. This claim was based on the application of a flawed statistical test and the use of older observational datasets.
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ScienceDaily.com |
Thinning Of Greenland Glacier Attributed To Ocean Warming Preceded By Atmospheric Changes
The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research in the journal Nature Geoscience. The research team traces these oceanic shifts back to changes in the atmospheric circulation in the North Atlantic region.
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ScienceDaily.com |
Tropical Rainforest And Mountain Species May Be Threatened By Global Warming
Contrary to conventional wisdom, tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may be threatened by global warming, according to ecologists.
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ScienceDaily.com |
Pictures: Climate change
SEE some of the ways climate change is effecting our earth.
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The Australian |
Sheep to wear greenhouse masks
RESEARCH could save the future of Australia's climate "sin-bin" sheep.
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The Australian |
Press Centre
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WHO sets the agenda for climate and health research
The WHO has developed a research agenda to better understand the human health impacts of climate change.
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SCIDEV.NET |
