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#934112013-04-25
Philippines’ high performance in human development index progress in the Millennium Development Goals among other ASEAN countries.
Manila, Philippines – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) recently reported that the Philippines continues to rank higher in human development than other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries and is also making progress in the attainment of the Millen ...
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#934122013-04-25
WIPO Committee Issues Revised Text On Traditional Knowledge Protection
After an intense day of drafting led by member country experts in small groups in closed rooms, the World Intellectual Property Organization secretariat released a new set of draft articles of what could become an international instrument aimed at protecting traditional knowledge.
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#934132013-04-25
China 'looting' Africa of its fish
Just 9% of the millions of tonnes of fish caught by China's giant fishing fleet in African and other international waters is officially reported to the UN, say researchers using a new way to estimate the size and value of catches.
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#934142013-04-25
Burned rainforest vulnerable to grass invasion
Rainforests that have been affected by even low-intensity fires are far more vulnerable to invasion by grasses, finds a new study published in special issue of the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
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#934152013-04-25
Caribbean Tourism Stakes Salvation on Greener Policies
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 24 2013 (IPS) - Tourism, widely regarded as the mainstay of Caribbean economies, is being challenged to remain sustainable in an era of climate change and its impact on beaches, rivers and other attractions.
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#934162013-04-25
Krill Super-Trawlers Pushing Penguins Toward Extinction
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 24 2013 (IPS) - Everyone loves penguins, but few will know that Thursday is World Penguin Day. Fewer still are those who know penguins are threatened with extinction by climate change and giant fishing trawlers from Europe and Asia stalking the oceans around Antarctica.
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#934172013-04-25
European Union urged to embrace genetically engineered crops
BRUSSELS, April 25 (UPI) -- The European Union will be unable to meet its agricultural policy goals unless it embraces genetically engineered crops, Spanish researchers said
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#934002013-04-24
India, Norway to set up think-tank on biodiversity
The National Biodiversity Authority and Norway Government’s Division of Nature Management will set up a Centre for Biodiversity Policy and Law.
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#934012013-04-24
Are women better custodians of biodiversity?
The Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi (AgFor) project works for improved, sustainable and gender-equitable use of agroforestry and forestry products. Improving smallholder systems and markets through projects emphasizing the productivity and sustainability of forestry and agroforestry,
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#934022013-04-24
Bill goes bananas!
Nature has given us a cornucopia of biodiversity rich in nutrients. Malnutrition and nutrient deficiency result from destroying biodiversity. The Green Revolution has spread monocultures of chemical rice and wheat, driving out biodiversity from our farms and diets.
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#934032013-04-24
The benefits of alternative farming methods
Small-scale farmers produce food for 70% of the global population. Yet, they are some of the world's poorest and most food insecure people. Alternatives to conventional farming should be embraced to improve subsistence farmers' yields and to ensure adequate food production for the growing global ...
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#934042013-04-24
Nigeria: NSA Blames Insecurity On Climate Change
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), Tuesday blamed the widespread insecurity in different parts of the country on the phenomenon of climate change.
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#934052013-04-24
Powerful film, posters spark lasting dialogue over future of local forests
A study that aimed to protect the interests of forest dwellers by measuring the value of biodiversity and improving communications with policymakers has had a profound impact due to an innovative public awareness campaign, scientists have said.
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#933742013-04-23
Saving Lives, Livelihoods, and Life
For many people, the term biodiversity might seem highly technical and irrelevant to their day to day concerns. If you think that, think again. It may just save your life.
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#933762013-04-23
Jamaica takes aim at World Heritage list - Culture ministry continues to look into downtown tourism tours
The park, located in the eastern mountainous region of Jamaica, is one of the country's first and most important protected areas and was nominated for inscription to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation World Heritage List in 2011.
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#933772013-04-23
On Mother Earth Day, UN Member States urged to promote harmony with nature
Top United Nations officials today urged the 193 Member States to renew their pledges to honour and respect Mother Earth marking the day selected by the world body to promote harmony with nature and sustainable development.
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#933782013-04-23
Uganda: Region's Lakes Suffer Slow Poison
Kampala — In recent years, governments in the East African Community (EAC) have blamed the problem of fish depletion in lakes on the use of illegal equipment that catches immature fish.
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#933802013-04-23
Resources and climate change
Earth Day is observed every year on April 22 to create awareness about and support for environmental protection. It was initiated by Gaylord Nelson, an American Senator and Environmentalist in 1970. This day brought in its wake the passing of acts like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the ...
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#933812013-04-23
Protecting Traditional Knowledge: WIPO Members Back To The Drafting Table
World Intellectual Property Organization delegates are meeting once again this week to try to advance a text that could become an international instrument to protect traditional knowledge. Substantial work needs to be done on the draft text, and developing countries generally favour a legal bind ...
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#933852013-04-23
Earth's pollinating insects face risks that threaten world food supply
LONDON, April 22 (UPI) -- Pollinating insects, vital to global food supplies, face a "cocktail" of multiple pressures putting their survival at risk, a British-led study indicated.
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#933862013-04-23
Shift in Earth's climate zones accelerating with global warming
BOULDER, Colo., April 22 (UPI) -- Earth's climate zones are shifting and being repositioned at an accelerating pace with global warming, a U.S. study says.
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#933882013-04-23
Forest conservation could reduce malaria transmission
[SANTIAGO] Preserving the biodiversity of tropical forests could have the added benefit of cutting the spread of malaria, according to a new study.
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#933892013-04-23
Scientists attack government climbdown on marine protection
Academics warn government it could be condemning marine environment to 'years of overexploitation and degradation'
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#933912013-04-23
Africa: First Global Plan of Action for Forest Genetic Resources Adopted By FAO Members
Rome — The first Global Plan for Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Forest Genetic Resources was adopted last week by FAO's Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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#933922013-04-23
Pakistan farmers grapple with climate change
Government attempts a new insurance scheme to protect farmers from floods and other worsening weather problems.
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#933932013-04-23
Climate change sends India's apple farmers up the Himalayas
The hills of Thanedar-Kotgarh lie four hours from Shimla, the capital of this Himalayan state in northwest India
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#933542013-04-22
Sustainability and the Sacred
Recent droughts, hurricanes and floods have made us more and more aware of the reality of climate change, and the disastrous environmental effect of our industrialized, materialistic civilization.
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#933552013-04-22
AP witnesses decline in green cover, Hyderabad is worst hit
Hyderabad: Green cover is dwindling rapidly in the state, and Hyderabad is the worst hit when compared to other cities, according to data released by the Forest Survey of India and the AP Forest department.
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#933562013-04-22
Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary: Ready for lions
“Dilli ke Patrakar” (journalist from Delhi). In spite of staying with the Saharia community in a hut (locally known as pataur) for over a year, extending support and help in the relocation and rehabilitation of villagers from within the Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary and of my subsequent, more than 10- ...
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#933572013-04-22
Earth Day 2013 celebrated with Google doodle.
Earth Day is 43 years' old today, a milestone marked by one of Google's annual doodles dedicated to the event. The day of environmental awareness has been marked by a Google doodle for as long as I can remember, from melting polar ice in 2007 (a prophetic nod to the record Arctic melt that year) ...
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#933582013-04-22
Study: Mountain lions in California affected by human development
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 19 (UPI) -- A study tracking mountain lions in the Central California mountains found their behaviors are being affected by human development, researchers said.
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#933592013-04-22
How can we save our planet for future generations?
Activists and scientists have long warned that our overstretched planet is reaching an environmental tipping point after which humanity will face cataclysmic consequences.
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#933602013-04-22
Climate Change is Finally Real for the American People
2012 seems set to go down in history as the year in which climate change became real for the United States. Over a period of six months, New York City flooded, the biggest drought in half a century settled into the Midwest, and wildfires burned 9.3 million acres in one of the worst fire seasons ...
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#933612013-04-22
Climate Change Hangs on Nations’ Cooperation
This year’s Earth Day theme is on climate change, and leaders from many countries are making a determined effort to prevent global temperatures from rising even further and to respond to drastic changes in the weather worldwide.
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#933622013-04-22
International Financial Institutions Agree to Share Data to Improve Development Outcomes and Lay the Groundwork for the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Recognizing the power of information to shape better policies, guide development programs and increase accountability, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, along with leaders of six multilateral financial institutions, announced today that they would strengthen inter-agency sharing and collaboratio ...
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#933642013-04-22
Study: White sharks in Hawaiian waters migrate from eastern Pacific
HONOLULU, April 19 (UPI) -- White sharks sometimes seen in waters around the Hawaiian Islands have come from as far as the Pacific coasts of California and Mexico, researchers said.
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#933652013-04-22
Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe
Campaigners say the Brazilian government is failing to protect one of the world's most endangered tribes.
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#933662013-04-22
Climate zones will shift faster as world warms
Earth's regional climate zones will shift more quickly in response to warming as the globe grows hotter in coming decades, according to a study published online in Nature Climate Change on Sunday1.
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#933672013-04-22
Iceland Project Plays Dice With Nature, And Loses
REYKJAVIK, Apr 22 2013 (IPS) - Since the controversial Karahnjukar dam in East Iceland was brought into operation in 2006, conditions in the downstream Lagarfljot lake have become much worse, according to information gathered by the energy company Landsvirkjun. Some of the changes are irreversib ...
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#933682013-04-22
It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet
Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many adults).
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#933262013-04-19
Underwater biodiversity to bring in more tourists
The Department of Tourism (DOT) is planning to makediving as one of the major drivers in promoting the Philippines. “If you come to the Philippines and you don’t like what you see on land, just stick your head under water and you will be okay,” said Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. during yes ...
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#933272013-04-19
Natura 2000 networks: Improving current methods in biodiversity conservation
The world's biodiversity is currently in rapid decline, with human-mediated global change being a principal cause. Europe is no exception, and the Natura 2000 network provides an important conservation tool for biodiversity on a European level.
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#933292013-04-19
How Africa can solve its food crisis by growing more crops sustainably
This week in Dublin, world leaders, policymakers and civil society representatives met to discuss the urgent and interrelated issues of hunger, nutrition and climate justice that are faced by the poorest people and nations. In parallel, the global community is already discussing the goals and me ...
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#933312013-04-19
Incremental change is not enough - climate, business experts
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) – When it comes to fighting climate change and dealing with other environmental issues, incremental change is no longer enough. Instead, deeper, more disruptive transitions are needed, experts at a business and environmental summit in New Delhi said this week.
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#933332013-04-19
West coast whales, dolphins and sharks to be surveyed
Whales, dolphins and porpoises are to be photographed and their calls recorded during a new survey of marine life off Scotland's west coast.
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#933342013-04-19
Draft regulations on endangered species published
Cape Town - Changes to regulations governing threatened or protected species (ToPS) have been published, and the public invited to comment on them.
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#933352013-04-19
Climate change models fail to accurately simulate droughts
Most of my day job involves simulating the behavior of molecules like drugs and proteins using computer models. The field is more an art than a science, partially because the systems that are being modeled are too complex and ill-understood to succumb to exact solutions.
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#933362013-04-19
ACB concerned about SA's GM maize exports
The African Centre for Biosafety is deeply concerned by the news that the South African GMO authorities have permitted over 25,000 tons of GM maize to be exported to Zimbabwe.
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#933372013-04-19
Wildlife scientists urge less focus on endangered species
NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- A paper by U.S. scientists takes the international conservation community to task for ignoring abundant wildlife, treating them as environmental "stepchildren."
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#933402013-04-19
Pine marten numbers recovering according to survey
One of Scotland's rarest carnivores is showing signs of recovery after years of declining populations, a new report has suggested.