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New Plans to Protect Nature
Posted by Inter Press Service: Amantha Perera on September 18th, 2012
Inter Press Service: At the close of the ten-day World Conservation Congress that ran from Sept. 6-15 on the South Korean island of Jeju, members of the convening International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) agreed on an ambitious four-year action plan for protecting global natural resources.
Taking the form of a 24-page document, the four-year programme focuses on the two main themes that dominated discussions among 10,000 participants at Jeju last week - that natural resources are stretched dangerously...
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United Kingdom: Push to create a million UK ponds
Posted by BBC: Roger Harrabin on September 18th, 2012
BBC: Details of a plan for a million healthy ponds in the UK are being announced to combat decades of neglect.
The charity Pond Conservation says ponds offer more species diversity than any other habitat per square metre.
But 80% of them are polluted - mostly by fertilisers and pesticides from farms, and also by run-off from streets and homes in towns and villages.
Pond Conservation say it is so hard to clean a pond fed by polluted streams that it is better to start afresh.
It wants to create...
Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 18th, 2012
Guardian: One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. In what he calls a "global disaster" now unfolding in northern latitudes as the sea area that freezes and melts each year shrinks to its lowest extent ever recorded, Prof Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University calls for "urgent" consideration of new ideas to reduce global temperatures. In an email to the Guardian he says: "Climate change is no longer something we can aim...
Climate change will transform the bush … and we’ll have to think big to cope
Posted by Conversation: None Given on September 18th, 2012
Conversation: Within decades, environments across Australia will be substantially different from those that currently exist.
CSIRO research released today suggests that, by 2030, climate change stress on our natural environments will be significant. By 2070, the impacts will be more widespread and, in many places, more extreme. Many parts of Australia will have environments that do not exist today anywhere on this continent. Ecological stress
In a scientific first, we investigated how climate change will...
Huge Greenland iceberg starts to go to pieces
Posted by NBC: Douglas Main on September 18th, 2012
NBC: Off the coast of northwest Greenland, an enormous iceberg is beginning to go to pieces.
The huge ice chunk, named PII-2012, was originally part of the Petermann Glacier, but broke away from the glacier in mid-July in a process called calving.
By the end of July the Manhattan-size chunk of ice had nearly reached the mouth of a fjord that opens on the Nares Strait, a narrow stretch of ocean that separates Greenland from Canada.
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