AFP – Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world’s tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior official said Saturday.
Indonesia proposes rainforest nations climate group (AFP)
AP – Climate change could worsen Africa’s struggle to feed itself, but simple steps ? a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops ? could help the continent’s subsistence farms, specialists and activists said Friday.
Talks on climate change impact in Africa (AP)
A little change of pace… Is this really Cupacabra?
AP – Phylis Canion lived in Africa for four years. She’s been a hunter all her life and has the mounted heads of a zebra and other exotic animals in her house to prove it. But the roadkill she found last month outside her ranch was a new one even for her, worth putting in a freezer hidden from curious onlookers: Canion believes she may have the head of the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra.
Has a mythical beast turned up in Texas? (AP)
Reuters – Spreading deserts and degradation of farm land due to climate change will pose a serious threat to food supplies for the world’s surging population in coming years, a senior United Nations scientist warned on Friday.
Spreading deserts threaten world food supply (Reuters)
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AFP – The Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole is already seeing the dramatic effects of global warming: the mercury is rising twice as fast as elsewhere on the planet, posing a serious threat to the ecosystem.
Ice fjords, lifeblood for polar species, at risk in melting Arctic (AFP)
Reuters – Industrial nations were shying away from fixing stiff 2020 guidelines for greenhouse gases cuts at U.N. talks on Friday in what environmentalists said would be a vote for “dangerous” climate change.
Industrial nations shy away from stiff 2020 goals (Reuters)
LiveScience.com – Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides are some of the additional catastrophes that climate change and its rising sea levels and melting glaciers could bring, a geologist says.
Global Warming Might Spur Earthquakes and Volcanoes (LiveScience.com)
