Environment

Mapping a better future: how spatial analysis can benefit wetlands and reduce poverty in Uganda

Mapping a Better Future: How Spatial Analysis can Benefit Wetlands and Reduce Poverty in Uganda represents an exciting
step forward in both combating poverty and protecting

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
Hyacinth Billings, Polly Ghazi, Greg Mock
World Resources Institute
Tags:
Environment, Wetlands, Ecosystem Services, Fisheries, Water Supply, Poverty, Uganda, Ecosystems
Biodiversity

Invasive alien species: a threat to biodiversity

In light of the impact invasive alien species have, the Convention on Biological Diversity recognizes the importance of preventing the introduction of, and controlling or eradicating alien species which threaten ecosystems, habitats and native species. This brochure highlights the threat invasive alien species pose to biodiversity and what each of us can do to tackle the problem.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Tags:
Convention On Biological Diversity (CBD), Ecosystems, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Birds, Biodiversity, Invasive Alien Species, Global, Globalisation
Health

Protecting health from climate change: global research priorities

This WHO report formulates a series of recommendations on the most important directions for future work in this field, and how this should be integrated with related areas of public health and climate research.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
WHO
Tags:
Ecosystems, Health Effects, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Climate Impacts, Health, Environmental Health, Research
Climate Change

Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction 2009: risk and poverty in a changing climate

This is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It focuses on the nexus between disaster risk and poverty, in a context of global climate change.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2009
UNISDR
Tags:
Ecosystems, Climate Change, Natural Disasters, Climate Adaptation, Disaster Management, Disaster Preparedness, Poverty, Global, Developing Countries
Wildlife

Pair Plead Guilty In Kenya After Huge Ivory Haul

A Kenyan and a Tanzanian pleaded guilty on Monday to illegal possession of ivory after being caught with hundreds of kilos of elephant tusks in one of east Africa's biggest seizures for years.

The two men were driving a car loaded with 512 kg (1,129 lbs) of tusks when they were arrested in Kenya on Saturday, 50 km (30 miles) from the Tanzanian border.

Publication Date: 
28/04/2009
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Ecosystems, Wildlife, Elephant, Illegal Trade, Poaching, Wildlife Tourism, Kenya, Tanzania
Environment

Pushing for political commitment to save Western Ghats

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

NEW DELHI: A first-ever citizens

Publication Date: 
28/04/2009
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Environment Economics, Ecosystems, Western Ghats
Climate Change

The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in China

This paper analyses the terrestrial carbon balance of China during the 1980s and 1990s using biomass and soil carbon inventories extrapolated by satellite greenness measurements, ecosystem models and atmospheric inversions.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2009
Shilong Piao, Jingyun Fang, Philippe Ciais & et al
Nature
458
7241
1009
Tags:
Ecosystems, Land Use, Deforestation, Afforestation, Carbon Dioxide, Atmosphere, Climate Change, Climate Science, Carbon Sinks, Fossil Fuels, China
Forests

Forests could flip from sink to source of CO2

Forests that today soak up a quarter of carbon pollution spewed into the atmosphere could soon become a net source of CO2 if Earth

Publication Date: 
20/04/2009
Daily Times (Pakistan)
Tags:
Ecosystems, Forests, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, IPCC, Global Warming, Carbon Sinks, Drought, Migration
Climate Change

Excerpts From EPA's Greenhouse Gas Document

The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday six emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are a danger to public health and welfare. Here are excerpts from the EPA's so-called endangerment finding, which opens the way for possible regulation of climate-warming pollution.

Publication Date: 
20/04/2009
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Ecosystems, Agriculture, Water Resources, Health Effects, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Floods, Drought, Wildlife, United States Of America (US)
Climate Change

A Danger to Public Health and Welfare

In what could be a historic moment in the struggle against climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday confirmed what most people have long suspected but had never been declared as a matter of federal law: carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases constitute a danger to public health and welfare.

Publication Date: 
18/04/2009
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Ecosystems, Food Supply, Water Resources, Health Effects, Carbon Dioxide, Alternative Fuels, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Sea Level Rise, Drought, Fossil Fuels, United States Of America (US)

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