Lowland tropics, mangroves and deserts at greater risk than mountainous areas as global warming spreads, study finds David Adam. Guardian.co.uk Global warming creeps across the world at a speed of a quarter of a mile each year, according to a new study that highlights the problems that rising temperatures pose to plants and animals. Species [...]
VILA DOS CRENTES, Brazil — Raimundo Teixeira de Souza came to this sweltering Amazon outpost 15 years ago, looking for land. He bought 20 acres, he said, but more powerful farmers, who roam this Wild West territory with rifles strapped to their backs, forced him to sell much of it for a pittance. Then someone [...]
Bolivian city of Cochabamba will be the venue for the World Summit for Climate Change from April 19th to April 22nd 2010, announced Bolivian President Evo Morales. The summit, organized as a world conference of social movements, will operate as a response to the failure of the 15th Summit on Climate Change, recently held in [...]
AGADEZ, 22 December 2009 (IRIN) – Local officials in Niger’s northern Agadez region – hit by its most severe storms in decades in September 2009 – have been trying to root out false flood victims in order to redirect aid to needy families and reconstruction. More than 13,000 homes were partially or completely destroyed by [...]
IRIN NEWS: TEL AVIV, 24 December 2009 (IRIN) – Israeli NGOs say a planned 40 percent rise in water prices in 2010 will hit the most vulnerable in society hardest. Poor families spend some 100 NIS (US$27) a month on water but will have to spend another 40 NIS ($11) a month after the price [...]
