Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
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Juice from concentrate: reducing emissions with concentrating solar thermal power
The latest report on Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) power, a renewable energy resource which has a significant potential for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. Explores the scale, potential and barriers of implementing CST in US, India, China and Middle East & North Africa.
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Land grab or development opportunity?: agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa
Despite the spate of media reports and some published research,
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Food Scare Sparks Developing World Land Rush: Think Tank
High food prices fueled a land-buying spree in developing nations, particularly in Africa, by countries and private investors wanting to assure food supplies for themselves, a think tank said on Wednesday.
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Ganges drying up due to climate change?
Some of the developing world's largest rivers including Ganges in South Asia are drying up because of climate change. Researchers from the US-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) said this after analysing data combined with computer models to assess river flows across the world.
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Goal Of Eliminating Malaria In Sight: Experts
Fresh efforts and funding to tackle malaria in recent years have brought the goal of eradicating the deadly disease within sight, health experts said on Friday. Wiping out malaria worldwide could take decades but many countries where it is endemic are on the brink of eliminating the disease, which infects up to 500 million people a year and kills nearly one million worldwide, they said.
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"Plenty Of Opportunities" From Arctic Thaw - Norway
A thaw of Arctic ice will open "plenty of opportunities" in oil and gas exploration and shipping even though the overall impact of global warming will be damaging for the region, Norway's Foreign Minister said.
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Droughts in Africa echo over 3,000 yrs
NYT News Service As if some spells of droughts persisting over three centuries are not enough, Africa will experience more such mega droughts if studies are to be believed, writes Andrew C Revkin
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Tanzania Reefs Hold Climate Change Lessons - Report
A network of "super-reefs" off east Africa are unusually resilient to climate change and could provide important lessons for coral conservation in other parts of the world, researchers said on Friday. Experts say the planet has lost about a fifth of its corals and warn that many of the remaining reefs could die in the next 20 to 40 years, unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.
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EU Lawmakers Call For Tough Watch On Illegal Timber
Europe should push for tighter laws to curb the illegal timber trade by making both importers and exporters get licenses to show their wood does not come from endangered rainforests, lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Water levels dropping in some major rivers as global climate changes
Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a new comprehensive study of global stream flow. The study, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), suggests that in many cases the reduced flows are associated with climate change. The process could potentially threaten future supplies of food and water.