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Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and crops
Posted by Mongabay: Glenn Scherer on November 9th, 2015
Mongabay: A comprehensive new study commissioned by Brazil’s government predicts severe drought and crop failures due to climate change by 2040.
Brazil now gets 78% of its electricity from hydropower, but decreased rainfall could cut river flows by 38 to 57% to the nation’s four biggest existing hydropower plants, sharply decreasing energy generation.
Reduced water flows to proposed dams in the Tapajós basin, as well as to the gigantic, under construction Belo Monte dam, could make hydroelectric power...
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Comments Off on Brazil climate change report warns of failed hydropower and cropsChinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species brink of extinction
Posted by Mongabay: Glenn Scherer on June 29th, 2015
Mongabay: On Friday, June 19, Philippine authorities raided a warehouse on the island of Palawan and confiscated more than 4,000 live, illegally harvested rare turtles, only days before they were to be shipped to foreign food and pet markets.
"It appears that a businessman, a Chinese national in the Philippines, had stored them in a warehouse in large cement tanks, piled a dozen deep, awaiting export to China," Dr. Brian D. Horne told mongabay.com. Horne is the Wildlife Conservation Society's coordinator...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Chinese turtle heist sends rare Philippine species brink of extinctionWorld on course lose 1 in 6 species to climate change
Posted by Mongabay: Glenn Scherer on May 4th, 2015
Mongabay: Renowned biologist E.O Wilson, assessing Earth's sixth great extinction now underway, described the future as a shrinking keyhole through which all species must pass as humanity responds to, and hopefully averts catastrophe. A new study published in the journal Science shows that this keyhole could drastically narrow with each degree increase in global temperature due to climate change. The comprehensive study by University of Connecticut ecologist Mark Urban synthesizes data from 131 published...