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Memorandum of Understanding Signed for the Conservation And Development of Vedaranyam Coastal Zone Project
The Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Society of Integrated Coastal Management (SICOM) and M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) for the conservation and development of Vedaranyam Coastal Zone project in Tamil Nadu.
Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark
Conservation efforts aimed at protecting endangered Caribbean corals may be overlooking regions where corals are best equipped to evolve in response to global warming and other climate challenges. Science Brief thanks to EurekAlert. Read more here: Caribbean...
Study Finds Reforestation May Lower the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Forests
Scientists at the University of Oklahoma and the Fudan University in Shanghai, China, have found that reforestation and afforestation — the creation of new forests — may lower the potential of forests for climate change lessening. Science...
SOMALIA: Somaliland Needs Own Plan for Climate Change
The human and environmental disruption wreaked by drought in Somaliland, where more than 60 percent of people raise livestock for a living, means the self-declared, but barely recognized, independent state should draw up its own plan for climate change...
ETHIOPIA: When the Rains Don’t Come on Time
Rain rules the lives and wellbeing of rural people in most developing countries: it determines whether they will have enough to eat, be able to provide basic necessities and earn a living, but climate change has made rainfall more erratic in many parts...
St. Andrews Course Tees Up for Global Climate Event
The spiritual home of Golf is teeing up to support Earth Hour in a unique way by giving players the chance to take to the greens after dark.
Mayor of London Calls for Londoners’ Ideas to Help Tackle Climate Change
Some of the UK’s most famous faces have given their ideas and backing to plans to tackle climate change and make the capital more energy efficient. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has called on others to join the debate and has pledged to incorporate...
South African Insurance Giant Old Mutual Urged to Withdraw Its Stake in Zimbabwe’s State-run Publishing Houses
Human rights activists have launched a petition calling on South African insurance giant Old Mutual to withdraw its stake in Zimbabwe’s state-run publishing houses they accuse of spreading hate speeches and promoting political intolerance in the troubled...
