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#937372013-05-17
SA’s green jobs: how are they growing?
SOUTH Africa faces many economic, environmental and social challenges. Inflation, constraints of energy, water and food, and a 24.9% unemployment rate are just a few.
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#937382013-05-17
Uganda: UN Boss Hails Women Conservation Project
A women's fish farming project that emphasises conserving biodiversity on Lake Victoria, has been hailed by the UN Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark.
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#937392013-05-17
Why Manhattan's Green Roofs Don't Work--and How to Fix Them
On a rooftop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, two students are collecting soil samples from boxes planted with species from two native plant communities:
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#937402013-05-17
From 'Potent' Pollen to Double Whammy Allergy Seasons: How Climate Change Could Affect Seasonal Allergies
In the past 53 years, carbon dioxide levels have risen globally approximately 22 percent. Much has been written about how the rise in greenhouse gases is bad for the environment, but less has been said about how these gases can help some plants flourish.
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#937412013-05-17
Climate Change Impacts Ripple Through Fishing Industry While Ocean Science Lags Behind
With a limberness that defies his 69 years, Frank Mirarchi heaves himself over the edge of a concrete wharf and steps out onto a slack, downward sloping dock line bouncing 20 feet above the lapping waters near Scituate, Mass.
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#937422013-05-17
Empowering communities to combat deforestation
Kibaha district authorities may not know exactly how much of their remaining indigenous forests are being illegally harvested but they see the size of bare land that was otherwise covered by trees increasing at an alarming rate. They have decided to deal with the situation.
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#937432013-05-17
Caribbean political, business leaders meet on Branson’s private island to discuss conservation
KINGSTON, Jamaica — In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean’s tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson’s private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region’s coastal resources by 2020.
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#937452013-05-17
Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by Human Expansion
UNITED NATIONS, May 17 2013 (IPS) - Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some species facing extinction within the next decade.
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#937462013-05-17
'Crazy ants' from South America invading southeastern U.S.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 16 (UPI) -- Invasive "crazy ants" displacing native fire ants across the southeastern United States could have dramatic effects on the region's ecosystem, researchers say
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#937472013-05-17
UK's rare spring butterflies make a late show
The UK's spring butterflies are being welcomed by enthusiasts, but weeks later than they usually arrive.