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How to teach climate change to a conservative community
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 14th, 2015
Washington Post: The National Center for Science Education is a non-profit organization with some 5,000 members that provides information and resources for schools, parents, and concerned citizens working to keep evolution and climate science in public school science education. The center originally devoted its energies to fighting efforts by some schools to teach creationism alongside evolution, but in 2012 started an initiative to defend and support the teaching of climate change to fight climate change denial...
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Knowledge hub aims to boost herders’ political clout
Posted by SciDevNet: None Given on May 14th, 2015
SciDevNet: A hub aimed at helping nomadic livestock keepers share information and unite to better defend their cause in global policy talks is up and running. There are hundreds of millions of pastoralists worldwide, managing ranges covering a third of the earth's land, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which launched the Pastoralist Knowledge Hub last month (27 April). But despite their numbers, pastoralists struggle voicing their concerns and wishes politically, because of their...
Indonesia’s partial forest-clearing moratorium extended, but activists wanted more
Posted by Mongabay: Philip Jacobson on May 14th, 2015
Mongabay: A Greenpeace activist dons a mask of Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in a smoldering peat forest that is supposed to be protected by Indonesia's partial forest clearing moratorium, next to a speech bubble that reads, "I can protect and save it all: 93.6 million hectares. Because I am the Forester President! Work... work... work!" Photo courtesy of Greenpeace.
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo extended Indonesia's partial forest-clearing moratorium yesterday on the day of its...