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5/9/2008
The United Nations launched a plan on Friday to have an ancient wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the Biblical Garden of Eden, listed as a World Heritage Site.
The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said the Marshlands were of ...
5/9/2008
The rain which fell during the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav was not extraordinary for Jamaica as far as rain goes; but the damage certainly was. And this is not the first time damage to infrastructure seems disproportionate. After every one ...
5/9/2008
More attention should be given to a potential environmental disaster in Papua New Guinea near one of the world's largest copper mines, warn some scientists.
Melbourne-based river scientist Dr Ian Campbell is concerned about large areas ...
5/9/2008
Saying California's water reserves are all but gone, state officials on Thursday announced the revival of a dormant 17-year-old program to buy water from Sacramento Valley farmers and sell it to the thirstiest Southern California agencies in case ...
5/9/2008
California's state government is forming a "water bank" to buy water for local water agencies at risk of shortages next year should a current drought persist, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday.Schwarzenegger in June declared the ...
5/9/2008
Over 150 representatives of government and non-governmental organisations as well as waterbird experts from 80 countries will meet in Madagascar from the September 15-19 to discuss urgent conservation responses necessary to reverse the declines ...
5/9/2008
Anticipating another bone-dry winter, California is preparing to act as a water go-between next year, buying from water-rich districts in the north and selling to cities and farmers hit hard by drought.
The initiative, known as the 2009 ...
4/9/2008
There is no landmass on Earth quite like California. Here one finds the world's most ancient trees, bristlecone pines, more than 4,700 years old, in the White Mountains; the tallest and largest trees, the coast redwood and giant sequoia, ...
4/9/2008
Faith can move mountains, but in Rajasthan, it helps grow forests. Even in the era of global warming and fast depleting green cover, faith continues to sustain the canopy of green over the desert state. Now the officials of forest department are ...
4/9/2008
The UN environmental agency, UNEP has teamed up with the world's leading search engine, Google, to develop popular mapping goal, Google Earth to enable people to "fly" to some of the world's most dramatic environmental hotspots.
A ...
4/9/2008
KEVIN Rudd will be asked to dramatically lift Australia's reserves of natural forests and grasslands as part of its climate change solution in a bid to ease emissions cuts on industry as part of the transition to a low-carbon ...
4/9/2008
Federal researchers warned Thursday that warming temperatures could soon cause California's beloved giant sequoia trees to die off more quickly, so forest managers must start considering the impacts of climate change and a longer, harsher ...
4/9/2008
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an environmental scheme now being trialled in this South-east Asian country, may serve as a model for the region, if found successful.
Two pilot projects, one in the southern Dong Nai River Basin and ...
4/9/2008
Droughts caused by global climate change have led to a drop in wheat production, a worldwide shortage and high food prices around the world.
The global wheat supply is at its lowest point in 50 years, with only an estimated 10 weeks of ...
4/9/2008
The national department of agriculture has warned farmers in the central Karoo that with the onset of climate change, drought "may no longer be regarded as a disaster" and has called on farmers to adapt to increasingly variable and possibly drier ...
4/9/2008
The global warming is leading to tropical cyclones becoming stronger and stronger, a new study says.
This bolsters the theory already put forward that global warming is a contributing factor in increasing intensity of hurricanes in the ...
4/9/2008
CLIMATE change is so inexact a science that debate over how much, if at all, it is responsible for the crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin will produce little but hot air. While politically inept to open up the debate, Brendan Nelson is correct ...
4/9/2008
THE head of the Federal Government's Murray-Darling Basin management agency says the crisis in the nation's key river system has the "fingerprints all over it" of climate change, further isolating Brendan Nelson.Murray-Darling Basin ...
3/9/2008
Text of report by Paul Gitau and Isaac Ongiri entitled "Farmers to be paid to conserve forests" published by Kenyan privately-owned daily newspaper The Standard website on 3 September; subheading as publishedThe government and various ...
3/9/2008
The Federal Government has been told more than $1 billion of crops might be lost as a trade-off to save the Murray-Darling Basin.
Water Minister Penny Wong says up to 1,000 gigalitres of water will be required to replenish the lower ...
3/9/2008
Drought in Australia's main food growing region of the Murray-Darling river system has worsened, with water inflows over the past two years at an all-time low, the government's top water official said on Tuesday.
The drought will hit ...
3/9/2008
Germany will warm up over the next century, though it isn't all bad news Hotter summers in the south, better harvests, and a tourism boom on the coast. Along with floods, lack of snow and an increase of algae along the coast, this could all be in ...
3/9/2008
As pilot Bruce Gordon lifts up from the local airport, the distant perspective of the Teton Range raises the spirits, but the unfolding sight of dying forests sears the soul.
High-elevation white bark pines, which have endured droughts ...
3/9/2008
Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers.The Sahara ...
3/9/2008
Scotland has potential to raise hydropower capacity by about a half, helping Britain cut greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate global warming, a new study showed on Tuesday.
The Scottish government said the study by the Forum for ...