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Pakistan tackles water crisis with rainwater harvesting
Posted by AlertNet: Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio on October 25th, 2011
AlertNet: Wearing colourful traditional dresses with silver jewellery and bangles on their arms, the women of Tharparkar district look festive. But the empty earthen pots they carry tell a different story.
"Walking for three miles and (hoisting) a ... bucket filled with water through a wooden pulley from a 130-feet-deep well twice a day is toilsome work,' says Marvi Bheel, who lives in isolated Morry-je-Wandh village in this arid district of Sindh province, some 450 km (280 miles) south-east of Karachi....
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China’s glaciers in meltdown mode: Study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2011
Bangkok Post: Sharp increases in temperature driven by global warming are melting China's Himalayan glaciers, an impact that threatens habitats, tourism and economic development, says a study released Tuesday.
Tibetan women stand at the foot of a glacier in 2007. Sharp increases in temperature driven by global warming are melting China's Himalayan glaciers, an impact that threatens habitats, tourism and economic development, says a study released Tuesday.
Of 111 weather stations scattered across southwestern...
“We are people already sold” say voices from African rainforests
Posted by Green Peace: Susanne Breitkopf on October 25th, 2011
Green Peace: Approximately 40 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo depend on the rainforest for their basic needs, such as medicine, food or shelter. In this image a local fisherman guides his boat through the waters of Lac Tumba (Lake Tumba). The lake area was identified by the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) as a priority region for conservation. Expansion of logging into remaining areas of intact forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will destroy globally critical carbon reserves...
China’s glaciers in meltdown mode: study
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2011
Agence France-Presse: Sharp increases in temperature driven by global warming are melting China's Himalayan glaciers, an impact that threatens habitats, tourism and economic development, says a study released Tuesday.
Of 111 weather stations scattered across southwestern China, 77 percent showed significant upticks in temperatures between 1961 and 2008, according to the study, published in a British peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Research Letters.
At the 14 monitoring stations above 4,000 metres (13,123 feet),...
Thailand calls holiday to allow escape from floods
Posted by Reuters: Panarat Thepgumpanat on October 25th, 2011
Reuters: Thailand announced a five-day holiday on Tuesday to give people the chance to escape floods closing in on Bangkok as authorities ordered the evacuation of a housing estate on the outskirts of the city after a protective wall gave way.
The cabinet declared October 27-31 a holiday in Bangkok and 20 provinces affected by the country's worst flooding in 50 years as weekend high tides in the Gulf of Thailand could complicate efforts to divert water from the low-lying capital.
Financial markets will...