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Ethiopia responds to famine with controversial resettlement plan
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on August 1st, 2011
A "no-nuclear" Germany would have to build more than 2,800 miles of new high-vol: In the face of climate change and increasingly severe droughts, should African governments resettle rural farmers and encourage new types of agriculture?
The world is rushing to get emergency food relief to the 11.5 million people going hungry in the Horn of Africa's worst drought in 60 years. In Ethiopia, President Meles Zenawi's government is seeking a longlasting solution to the problem by launching a resettlement program.
Ethiopia wants to group its scattered semi-nomadic peoples into permanent...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Casts for Collaboration in Its New Climate
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on October 9th, 2010
Scientific American: Changing Habitats: To conserve plant and animal species in the face of climate change, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will attempt to anticipate how habitats may shift. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region Climate change is a real, complex and widespread challenge that calls for a "new era of collaborative conservation." That's the message of a new strategic plan for dealing with the effects of global warming, released last week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
India: Erratic rains spark climate debate
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on August 25th, 2010
Telegraph (India): Puzzling Bihar peasants over the past two years, the erratic rains have triggered a debate on if the state has undergone a climate change. The jury is divided. Agriculture experts have suggested changes in cropping pattern due to the irregular rainfall. But the Met department believes it is premature to take any decision on climate change without data of at least 30 years. In the past two years, rainfall was deficient in June and July, when majority of the farmers sow paddy. ...
Canada: RBS faces wrath of climate activists
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on August 20th, 2010
Independent (UK): Climate change protesters set up camp close to the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters yesterday, accusing the state-owned bank of using taxpayers' money to finance the fossil fuel industry. Activists expect up to a thousand protesters to join the camp just outside Edinburgh ahead of a planned day of mass action against RBS on Monday. A spokeswoman for RBS said it was in the vanguard of lending to renewable energy projects. "As a major international bank we provide ...
Giant Greenland iceberg a climate ‘warning sign’
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on August 15th, 2010
Independent (UK): A giant iceberg that snapped away from Greenland last week is a signal that global warming is causing the island's continent-sized ice cap to melt faster than expected, scientists say. The 250-square-kilometre (100-square-mile) chunk, four times the size of Manhattan, broke away from the Petermann ice shelf on Greenland's northwestern tip. The breakoff - the largest in the Arctic in half a century - points to Greenland's worrying potential to stoke sea levels in the coming ...
Biggest relocation in China since Three Gorges
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on August 13th, 2010
Independent (UK): China's growing thirst for water is driving one of the world's biggest mass relocations, with 440,000 people leaving their homes to make way for a huge man-made canal project to channel water to drought-prone Beijing. An advance party of 499 villagers were moved yesterday from their homes near Wuhan in Hubei province, China's heartland, in preparation for one of the biggest irrigation schemes in history. By the end of September, 60,000 people will have left the area. The ...
United States: Giant hailstone breaks US record
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on July 31st, 2010
BBC: A hailstone weighing almost a kilo that fell in the state of South Dakota has been confirmed as the largest ever recovered in the USA. According to the National Weather Service, the hailstone that landed in the town of Vivian eclipsed previous record-setters in Nebraska in 2003 and Kansas in 1970.
Finches under threat from poaching gangs
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on July 16th, 2010
Independent (UK): Due to their sweet song and bright plumage, the goldfinch has become the prey of bird baiters At 12cm long and weighing 14 grams, the goldfinch is a prime target for sparrowhawks and other predators in the avian world. But their sweet song and bright plumage has also made the tiny songbird prey to bird baiters who are entering urban woodlands with pots of glue to catch the birds, which they can then sell for up to £100 a time. The practice is becoming prevalent in east London, ...
Eco-friendly ski resorts offset glacial melting
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on July 13th, 2010
Independent (UK): Northern Italian officials have begun covering the Presena glacier with an insulating blanket and parts of the Andes have been painted white to try to reduce glacial melting. Now eco-friendly ski resorts around the world are also working on reducing that sport's ecological impact. Officials have begun covering some mountains in Northern Italy with a giant blanket in an attempt to slow the rate at which the ice is melting, reported BBC Brazil on July 8. 970,000 square feet ...
Millions face starvation as Niger prays in vain for rain
Posted by Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed on July 9th, 2010
Independent (UK): To the north of Niger, the creeping Sahara; to the south, oil rich and agriculturally lush Nigeria -- this nation straddles the Sahel -- dry, hot and cruel. It has suffered catastrophic droughts -- 1974, 1984 and 2005. And now, another. Five times the size of the United Kingdom, Niger is one of the poorest nations on earth with child mortality worse than Afghanistan. The absence of regular rainfall throughout 2009 has led to poor harvests, lack of grazing for animals and food reserves ...