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Scientist at Work: Arriving in Panama to a Series of Games
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 11th, 2011
New York Times: By BRYSON VOIRIN Sebastian Cruz Bryson Voirin arriving on Isla Iguana with a mountain of luggage and equipment.
Bryson Voirin, a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany and fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, writes from Panama, where he is studying sleep in wild frigate birds.
Sunday, March 6
When conducting fieldwork in a foreign country, I prefer to view the various problems, issues and lost-in-translation moments that arise...
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Guyana sees a 300 per cent increase in deforestation despite climate change financing from Norway to protect its forests
Posted by Carbonyatra: None Given on March 11th, 2011
Carbonyatra: Guyana has seen deforestation rates soar over the last year, despite the signing of an agreement with the Norwegian government aimed precisely at supporting a reduction in deforestation rates, said Global Witness.
Signed in November 2009, the agreement -- worth $250m over four years -- was initially welcomed as a potential breakthrough, and a blueprint for other countries to follow, in supporting the preservation of forests. However, once the technical details were made public, initial optimism...
High food prices said foretaste of climate shocks
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 11th, 2011
Reuters: Leaps in food prices linked to drought in Brazil or floods in Australia may be a foretaste of ever greater shocks to be caused by climate change, according to a commission named on Friday to find ways to fix the problems. The international group of 13 experts will try to come up with ideas in the next 10 months to help agriculture cope with global warming, blamed by the U.N. panel of climate experts mainly on mankind's emissions of greenhouse gases. John Beddington, Britain's chief scientific adviser...
Poor planning to worsen climate impact on S. Africa’s water supply
Posted by AlertNet: Jocelyn Newmarch on March 11th, 2011
AlertNet: A man walks across a flooded bridge, 60 km (37 miles) south of Durban in South Africa, June 18, 2008, after heavy rains caused flooding. Weak infrastructure management and poor planning will exacerbate the serious effects of climate change on South Africa's water supply, local experts have warned.
"We are very good at burglar proofing, bullet proofing, but are we good at climate proofing?' Roland Schulze, professor in hydrology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, asked last month's South African...