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Carbon-Based: Satellite mapping reveals agricultural slowdown in Latin America
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Satellite mapping reveals agricultural slowdown in Latin America. University of British Columbia News. For the first time, satellite mapping of Latin America shows that the continent’s agricultural expansion has waned in the wake of the global economic downturn, according to UBC research. The slowdown is notable, given that agriculture in Latin America expanded faster over the past few decades compared to any other region on earth. The growth was fuelled by the continent’...
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Carbon-Based: Expert warns fire season in northern British Columbia getting worse
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Expert warns fire season in northern British Columbia getting worse. Mike Hager in the Globe and Mail. Since Saturday, heavy winds almost doubled the size of the blaze and halted the progress of 270 firefighters, according to the branch. BC could continue to warm over the next 100 years, according to some global climate-change models, exacerbating the forest-fire threat. A 2003 fire in British Columbia, via NASA. Posted by Brian Thomas. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Februar...
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Contraction and Convergence News
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Rabbi Jeffrey Newman -. Many of us believe C&C is the only game in town. CBAT is a major step forward. I assure you of my on-going and dedicated support. Many, many thanks and congratulations on getting this next major step with CBAT underway. When I first realized that the world is standing by, watching the destruction of millions, or hundreds of millions of its inhabitants through. The principle of Contraction and Convergence. In friendship and with love,. Thank you for this heartfelt message. The whol...
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Carbon-Based: Disaster preparedness saves lives
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Disaster preparedness saves lives. The World Bank says Japan's systematic and careful investments in seismic safety and tsunami preparedness over several decades saved countless lives during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Speaking at the 5th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM5), the World Bank's Sector Director for Sustainable Development in East Asia and Pacific, John Roome, said Japan's example shows country's should invest in preparedness. August 1, 2013.
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Carbon-Based: Focus on Poverty: Coffee farmers on climate front line
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Focus on Poverty: Coffee farmers on climate front line. Roger Williamson in SciDev.net. There is a coffee crisis brewing, SciDev.Net recently reported in a story about the effects of climate change on the crop, primarily the highly prized Arabica coffee beans. A major study modelled 21 scenarios of climate change up to 2050 on a band of 60 tropical countries either side of the equator where Arabica coffee is grown. Indeed, most of the possible solutions — such as irrigation,...
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Carbon-Based: Australia is losing millions of dollars in terms of economic productivity because of heat and climate change
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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Australia is losing millions of dollars in terms of economic productivity because of heat and climate change. Guneet Bhatia in the International Business Times. This represents an annual economic burden of around US$6.2 billion for the Australian workforce. This amounts to 0.33 to 0.47% of Australia's GDP," said the research team. Cockatoo Island in Sydney, shot by Greg O'Beirne. Wikimedia Commons, under the. Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. Posted by Brian Thomas. May 9, 2013.
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Carbon-Based: NASA study shows Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf nearing its final act
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. NASA study shows Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf nearing its final act. A new NASA study finds the last remaining section of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening and likely to disintegrate completely before the end of the decade. Ice shelves are the gatekeepers for glaciers flowing from Antarctica toward the ocean. Without them, glacial ice enters the ocean faster and accelerates the pace of global sea level rise. This st...NASA ...
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Carbon-Based: Kenyan floods cut off 300 people in Ongata Rongai
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Saturday, May 16, 2015. Kenyan floods cut off 300 people in Ongata Rongai. Judie Kaberia in AllAfrica.com via Capital FM (Kenya): More than three hundred people were Thursday morning stranded in Ongata Rongai in Lower Olootepesi, Kajiado East Constituency since 4.30am after a major connecting bridge was submerged in an overflowing river. According to motorists who spoke to Capital FM News, a connecting bridge on Kiserian River was sub-merged making the road impassable at Ongata Rongau. August 1, 2013.
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Carbon-Based: Don’t put irrigation above drinking water
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Don’t put irrigation above drinking water. Joe Turner in SciDev.net. Water policies and technologies aiming to help meet sustainable development goals (SDGs) must rebalance the attention given to agriculture over drinking water, a UN report issued last week (15 May) has found. However, conflict between using water for agriculture or for drinking would remain, according to Raul Pacheco-Vega, a geographer at the Centre for Economic Research and Education in Mexico. He says that...
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Carbon-Based: Pakistan improving sanitation way faster than India
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Monday, May 11, 2015. Pakistan improving sanitation way faster than India. Pakistan has left India far behind in terms of improving water and sanitation access for their citizens, reveals a new performance index released on Friday. While Pakistan was ranked five in the new index developed by The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health in the US, India occupied an unenviable 92nd position. The index compares countries of all sizes and in...
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