CBD Daily News Headlines http://www.cbd.int/headlines.aspx Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ 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: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-manhattans-green-roofs-dont-work-how-to-fix-them Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Allergies/potent-pollen-double-whammy-allergy-seasons-climate-change/story?id=19192495# Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/ocean-climate-change-fishing-industry_n_3275505.html Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/17/global-warming-not-stalled-climate Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation. 9 http://news.mongabay.com/2013/0517-global-forest-cover.html Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT A women's fish farming project that emphasises conserving biodiversity on Lake Victoria, has been hailed by the UN Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305171087.html Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.bdlive.co.za/indepth/greeningyourbusiness/2013/05/17/sas-green-jobs-how-are-they-growing Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT The UK's spring butterflies are being welcomed by enthusiasts, but weeks later than they usually arrive. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/22546675 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT German researchers have discovered the biological keys to the success of an invasive species, wreaking havoc across Europe and the US, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22554162 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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 http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/05/16/Crazy-ants-from-South-America-invading-southeastern-US/UPI-27081368726945/ Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/05/migratory-flyways-decimated-by-human-expansion/ Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/caribbean-political-business-leaders-meet-on-bransons-private-island-to-discuss-conservation/2013/05/17/bd5dac56-beb7-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT 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. http://www.ippmedia.com/frontend/index.php?l=54811 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT