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Most Americans link weather to global warming – survey
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 10th, 2012
Reuters: Nearly three-quarters of Americans say global warming influences U.S. weather and made this year's record-hot summer worse, a survey said on Tuesday. Conducted by Yale and George Mason universities, the survey found 74 percent of Americans believe that global warming is affecting weather, up 5 percentage points since March 2012, the last time the two organizations asked these questions. Seventy-three percent of Americans said global warming made the record-high temperatures of summer 2012 worse,...
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India: ‘Expenditure on bio-diversity must be looked as an investment’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 10th, 2012
Press Trust of India: Expenditure on conserving bio-diversity should be looked as an investment for future and the present global economic crisis should not discourage countries on investing more on this front, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan said here today.
In her inaugural address at the eleventh meet of the Conference of the Parties (COP-11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Natarajan said resources mobilisation is the most important unfinished agenda after COP-10.
COP-11 which began here...
Biodiversity meeting begins with funding plea
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 10th, 2012
Agence France-Presse: A major UN meeting designed to safeguard the world's natural resources began Monday with appeals to ensure that biodiversity does not become a victim of the global financial crisis.
More than 170 countries are meeting in the Indian city of Hyderabad over the next 12 days under the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an offshoot of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
UN environmental experts have warned that the world has as little as a decade to fend off a species...
The food security risk index – map
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 10th, 2012
Guardian: The index has been developed by the risk analysis company Maplecroft for governments, NGOs and business to use as a barometer to identify those countries which may be susceptible to famine and societal unrest stemming from food shortages and price fluctuations. This map shows the results of evaluating the availability, access and stability of food supplies in 197 countries, as well as the nutritional and health status of populations
Kashmiri farmers face drought losses without government support
Posted by AlertNet: Roshan Din Shad on October 10th, 2012
AlertNet: The failure of Muhammad Saddique's maize crop following a three-month drought has left him threatened with lack of food and economic ruin.
But the government of Pakistani-administered Kashmir, where Saddique lives, seems unprepared and unable to help farmers like him adapt to changing weather patterns that are linked to climate change, he and other farmers say.
Sitting in the yard of his two-room, tin-roofed mud house in the border village of Chakohti, 32-year-old Saddique looks over his stunted...
Local Alliance Renews Occupation of Belo Monte Dam in Brazil
Posted by Amazon Watch: None Given on October 10th, 2012
Amazon Watch: Yesterday some 120 indigenous demonstrators from the Xipaia, Kuruaia, Parakanã, Arara, Juruna and Assurini peoples united with a group of fishermen who have maintained a steadfast 24-day occupation of the Belo Monte dam's main work camp on the Xingu River in protest of the Norte Energia dam-building consortium's imminent plans to definitively dam the Amazon's Xingu River. The renewed occupation of the project's earthen cofferdams paralyzed construction works, while indigenous protestors seized the...