Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Contrary to the clean look in rainwater pouring the country’s land, the weather agency finds most of the rainwater contains harmful pollutions that are feared to harm environment and affect human health.The weather agency categorized the polluted rainwater as acid rains with acidity scale having gone down the tolerable level of 5.6.A report by the
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The portal — which was recently updated to even better meet client needs — informs Canadians and non-Canadians alike about Canada’s clean energy and climate change expertise, as well as our innovative clean energy industry. With the rapidly growing and highly technical clean energy industry delivering climate change solutions worldwide, the need for this resource
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Although global warming is expected to shrink glaciers in the Himalayas and other high mountains in Central Asia, the declining ice will have less overall impact on the region’s water supplies than previously believed, a study concludes. It’s an important finding, says Richard Armstrong, a climatologist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
In 21st century, people started to acknowledge the importance of coexistence between social development and natural environment because the actions of human might cause irrevocable impact to the natural environment. Therefore, it is a key aspect to achieve the balance between social and economic development as well as ecology to maintain a sustainable development nowadays.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
How do you account for carbon stored outside forests? Want to hear about experiences and challenges from case studies in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia? The World Agroforestry Centre invites you to a side event on Monday 7 June during the UNFCCC Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice 32nd session (SBSTA 32) in
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
To meet the growing need of people for increasing farm income and to minimize the negative environmental impact of today’s farm practices, a new farming concept has been evolved where inputs are fine tuned and optimized according to the local field variability such that yield increment is achieved with a minimum harm to the local
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
In this book, the authors outline some of the key pitfalls and deficiencies in ecological monitoring programs and long-term studies. They describe some the features of monitoring programs and long-term studies that are essential to make them viable, using case studies such as those of Rothamsted (UK) and the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (USA). Based
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
On 11 May 2010, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) launched a Policy Brief with the title “Making African Forests Fit for Climate Change: A regional View of Climate-Change Impacts on Forests and People and Options for Adaptation”, at the current fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, was joined today by Michael Chong, M.P. for Wellington–Halton Hills, and representatives of the Halton Public School Board for a tree-planting ceremony at Gardiner Public School in celebration of National Forest Week. “The Government of Canada recognizes that our forest industry generates $80 billion a year
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
PR – Portland General Electric Company (PGE) (NYSE:POR) and Siemens Power Generation, Inc., part of the global Siemens Energy Sector, today announced they have executed agreements for PGE to buy 141 turbines to complete construction of its 25,000-acre Biglow Canyon Wind Farm in Sherman County, Ore.
