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Source: Truthdig
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated Fri Dec 04 15:31:03 -0800 2009 | green-news
In Washington, the Senate is so divided that it became clear months ago that climate legislation will be pushed off until 2010 at the earliest. Still, the United States can meet the challenge of a world demanding that it take...
The rise of climate-change art
Source: The Guardian
Lagos :: Nigeria | updated Thu Dec 03 08:20:44 -0800 2009 | green-news
Cornelia Parker, Gary Hume and Keith Tyson reveal how they're dealing with the threat of catastrophe Vision of a tragic future? … Tomás Saraceno's Biospheres at the Rethink exhibition in Copenhagen. Photograph: Anders Sune Berg A floating plastic bubble, so hi-tech...
Developing countries present climate proposal
Source: The Boston Globe
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Tue Dec 01 10:42:23 -0800 2009 | green-news
A South African climate negotiator says four major developing nations have presented a joint climate proposal ahead of a U.N. conference on global warming. Alf Wills says the document by China, India, Brazil and South Africa represents "different positions" compared...
Africa: House Endorses Sanctions Against Despots
Source: All Africa
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated Wed Nov 25 07:44:41 -0800 2009 | green-news
House Endorses Sanctions Against Despots Onwuka Nzeshi 24 November 2009 Abuja — The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the imposition of sanctions on undemocratic governments in the West African sub-region, saying African leaders must summon the moral authority to caution...
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
Source: Inter Press Service
Cape Town :: South Africa | updated Sun Nov 15 15:58:22 -0800 2009 | green-news
Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Based on what some experts call "free market environmentalism", Kyoto signatories, who have agreed to a specific...
Global warming may increase chances of civil war in Africa
Source: NewKerala
Khartoum :: Sudan | updated Wed Nov 25 07:21:40 -0800 2009 | green-news
It concludes by urging accelerated support by African governments and foreign aid donors for new and/or expanded policies to assist with African adaptation to climate change. "Despite recent high-level statements suggesting that climate change could worsen the risk of civil...
Tanzania hit by deadly landslide
Source: BBC
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated Sun Nov 15 16:08:30 -0800 2009 | green-news
Seven schoolchildren are among the dead and more people are missing, local officials said. Rescuers are digging out bodies in the village of Goha, Kilimanjaro province, which was swamped when the side of a mountain collapsed on Tuesday night. Until...
New species of chameleon discovered in Tanzania!
Source: Zee News
Dar es Salaam :: Tanzania | updated Wed Nov 25 07:42:38 -0800 2009 | green-news
New species of chameleon discovered in Tanzania Updated on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 12:23 IST Washington: A team of scientists has discovered a new species of chameleon in Tanzania. Dr Andrew Marshall, from the Environment Department at the University of...
Kenya looks to geothermal power as drought hits dams
Source: News 24
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated Wed Nov 25 07:46:50 -0800 2009 | green-news
Kenya needs $1,02-billion in the next three years to tap its geothermal power potential, seen as an answer to over-reliance on drought-hit hydroelectric power, Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi said on Monday. Drought has slashed capacity at Kenya's main dams, forcing...
INDIA: ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers
Source: Inter Press Service
India :: Gambia | updated Wed Nov 25 08:01:10 -0800 2009 | green-news
He is well known as India�s �glacier man�, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or �artificial glaciers�, to beat the lack...
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