NewsRack: 'Forest' news in 'Climate Change' topic for user Genecampaign

Charles: 'Climate change sceptics are turning Earth into dying patient'	10.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Heir to throne intervenes on issue dividing coalition, making outspoken criticism of attempts to tackle global warming Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is assuming a growing number of the duties of what is supposed to be an apolitical monarchy. Hosting a two-day conference for forest scientists at St James's Palace in London, the Prince of Wales satirised those who stand in the way of climate action, characterising them as "the confirmed sceptics" and "the international association of corporate lobbyists". Faced with these forces of opposition, "science finds itself up the proverbial double blind gum tree", he added. At the debate on environmental issues, hours after the prince attended the Queen's speech, Charles attacked businesses which failed to care for the environment and ...
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Meteorite crater reveals future of a globally warmed world	9.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Lake sediments recorded the climate of the Arctic during the last period when CO2 levels were as high as today The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when greenhouse gas levels were as high as today. Unchecked burning of fossil fuels has driven carbon dioxide to levels not seen for 3m years when, the sediments show, temperatures were 8C higher than today, lush forests covered the tundra and sea levels were up to 40m higher than today. "It's like deja vu," said Prof Julie Brigham-Grette, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who led the new research analysing a core of sediment to see what temperatures in the region were between 3.6 and 2.2m years ago. "We have seen these warm periods before. Many people now agree this is where we are heading." "It shows a huge warming – unprecedented in human history," said Prof Scott Elias, at ...
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Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics	9.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Prince uses speech at St James's Palace to single out 'confirmed sceptics' and environmentally unfriendly businesses The Prince of Wales has criticised "corporate lobbyists" and climate change sceptics for turning the earth into a "dying patient", in his most outspoken attack yet on the world's failure to tackle global warming. He attacked businesses who failed to care for the environment, and compared the current generation to a doctor taking care of a critically ill patient. "If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem," he told an audience of government ministers, from the UK and abroad, as well as businesspeople and scientists. "A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there." He added: "The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is ...
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Vice President inaugurates International Centre for Environment Audit & Sustainable Development at Jaipur (Cached)	4.5.2013	Govt of india: PIB
Vice President inaugurates International Centre for Environment Audit & Sustainable Development at Jaipur
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MGNREGA leads to reduction in climate change vulnerability (Cached)	1.5.2013	Govt of india: PIB
MGNREGA leads to reduction in climate change vulnerability
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Climate change compounds rising threats to koala	30.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Australia's iconic marsupial is at risk from shrinking habitats, road traffic and dog attacks – and increasingly, global warming Australia's iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against this cuddly creature. In the past 20 years, the koala population has significantly declined, dropping by 40 percent in the state of Queensland and by a third in New South Wales (NSW). The Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) estimates that there are between 45,000 and 90,000 koalas left in the wild. Shrinking habitat and climate change is compounding the risk of disease, while attacks from feral and domestic dogs and road accidents add to a long list of risks that this arboreal mammal faces as it moves across the landscape in search of food. It is estimated that around ...
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Apple Production increases Despite impact of Climage Change (Cached)	30.4.2013	Govt of india: PIB
The productivity and quality of apple especially in mid hill conditions of sub temperate region has got affected due to global warming.
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Disposal of E-waste (Cached)	29.4.2013	Govt of india: PIB
Disposal of E-waste
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Safe Disposal of CFL (Cached)	29.4.2013	Govt of india: PIB
Safe Disposal of CFL
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Mapping of Hazard Line in Coastal Area (Cached)	29.4.2013	Govt of india: PIB
Mapping of Hazard Line in Coastal Area
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Educational Institutions for Climate Change (Cached)	29.4.2013	Govt of india: PIB
Educational Institutions for Climate Change
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13b pound project could generate unlimited supply of clean, cheap energy (Cached)	27.4.2013	New Kerala: India News
London, Apr. 27 : A 13 billion pound project has found a solution to climate change and an age of clean, unlimited energy.
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UN urges harmony with nature on Earth Day (Cached)	23.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 23 : Top United Nations officials Monday 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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Nagaland vulnerable to climate change (Cached)	23.4.2013	The Assam Tribune
Nagaland vulnerable to climate change
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Thousands throng to see Science Express (Cached)	21.4.2013	New Kerala: India News
Jalandhar, Apr 21 : Thousands of students, teachers and locals throng to see the Science Express at the local Railway Station. Students and teaching faculty in and around the city schools rush in queues to visit the Science Express, an innovative Science Exhibition mounted on specially designed 16 AC coaches train travelling across India since October. 2007. It's a unique collaborative initiative of the Department of Science & Technology and Union Ministry of Environment and Forests and is named as Science Express Biodiversity Special.
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Tracking the causes of monarch butterfly decline	18.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
A new census found this winter's population of North American monarch butterflies in Mexico was at the lowest level ever measured. Insect ecologist Orley Taylor talks to Yale Environment 360 about how the planting of genetically modified crops and the resulting use of herbicides has contributed to the monarchs' decline University of Kansas insect ecologist Orley R. "Chip" Taylor has been observing the fragile populations of monarch butterflies for decades, but he says he has never been more concerned about their future. Monarchs are beloved for their spectacular migration across Canada and the United States to overwintering sites in central Mexico — and back again. But a new census taken at the monarchs' wintering grounds found their population had declined 59 percent over the previous year and was at the lowest level ever measured. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 contributor Richard Conniff, Taylor — founder and director of Monarch Watch, a conservation and outreach program — ...
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UN seeks investments in forests for transition to green economy (Cached)	18.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 18 : Investing in healthy forests is not only vital for human and environmental well-being but also crucial in the transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient green economy, says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Genetic resources play crucial role in food security: UN (Cached)	16.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 16 : With climate change affecting agricultural productivity and growing populations demanding more food, it will be crucial for countries to preserve and share genetic resources to ensure food security, the United Nations agricultural agency said Monday.
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Production sectors damages world environment: UN (Cached)	16.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
New York, Apr 16 : Primary production and processing in such sectors as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, oil and gas exploration and utilities cost the world economy USD 7.3 trillion a year in damage to the environment, health and other vital benefits for humankind, a new United Nations-backed report warned Monday, calling for stricter ecological sustainability.
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Why action on forests now is essential to all our futures	16.4.2013	Guardian: Environment
Saving forests offers a new route to alleviating hunger and malnutrition, promoting development and tackling climate change While forests once provided subsistence for local people, for generations clearing forested land has also been good for global business, providing immediate food security for the world. Put simply, forests have been worth more dead than alive. As populations grow, emerging and industrialised countries are looking to the three great world forest regions – the Three Basins of the Congo, the Amazon and south-east Asia – for their growing resource needs. The economic imperative to acquire and clear more land increases daily as demand for food and commodities grows. More than half of the global forest loss has occurred in the Three Basins. But world food production needs standing forests not felled trees. And forests are not about food: they .provide protection for local communities against catastrophic flooding and erosion during rainy seasons. The forests of the Three ...
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