Environment
Instead of reduction of emissions let us concentrate on making this world greener all over globally. Today was sad day of my life when I saw picture of vehicles parked in the area that used to be a sort of lake or big pond below the world famous fort Amber fort. Its hind pond has dried. Pushker lake is dried. Ramgarh lake of Jaipur has dried. Water table has gone as low as 1200 feet. The deep water is full of fluoride and heavy metals unfit for agriculture and drinking . We are trying to bring water from Bisalpur to Jaipur. Bisalpur dam is drying > Will there be Jaipur from 50 years from…
Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry, Eduardo Mondlane University
• Task
• Submit paper and present orally on the research undertaken under the FACT/ADPP Jatropha
project in Cabo Delgado
14 to 25 September
Course on Jatropha production, Bilibiza, Cabo Delgado.
• Tasks:
• Teach and make training material for the course.
11 to 25 September
A number of research tasks were planned too.
• Tasks:
• Follow up on trials, including inspection and weighing of harvested seeds.
• Obtain rainfall data from the meteorological station, Bilibiza.
• Forecast Jatropha production for 10 years.
• Forecast transport…
New research conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future. The conclusion is based on climate reconstructions of the mid-Piacenzian Age of the Pliocene Epoch, 3.3 to 3 million years ago. The findings will help refine climate models, which currently underestimate the rate of sea ice loss in the Arctic, the researchers say.
Scientists documented evidence that the Arctic Ocean and Nordic Seas were too warm to support summer sea ice during the mid-Pliocene warm period . This period is…
Climate Change Stakeholders Across the Globe Elevate Role of Ag and Forestry in Stemming Climate Change
December 24th, 2009
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Leave a comment While debate continues over just what was accomplished at the international climate change talks this month, one development that cannot be underemphasized is the significant progress made in positioning agriculture and forestry to deliver near-term and cost-effective energy and climate change solutions. The global agricultural and forestry communities united in Copenhagen behind a core message that the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG)…
Tuesday, 22 December 2009 10:19
KOTA KINABALU - The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according to conservationists who predict the charismatic red ape will become extinct if no action is taken to protect its jungle habitat.
There are thought to be 50-60,000 orangutans still living in the wild in Malaysia and Indonesia, but deforestation and the expansion of palm oil plantations have taken a heavy toll.
"The orangutans' habitat is fragmented and isolated by plantations, they can't migrate, they can't find mates to produce babies," said Tsubouchi Toshinori from the…
Malaysia, Indonesia reject planting curbs at Copenhagen
Published: 2009/12/21
WHILE the recently-ended climate talks in Denmark may have been met with dismay by environmentalists, oil palm planters are relieved that calls to curb planting have been rejected.
This comes under a scheme called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing countries (REDD).
The World Bank had wanted this in place after the Kyoto Protocol, the current international pact to combat global warming, expires at the end of 2012.
Under the Kyoto Protocol palm oil millers can earn carbon…
The climate is changing and the natural world has to adapt to it. But how much time do the multitudes of species and their habitats have before it's too late? A team of environmental researchers has set out to answer that very question, and they say that as the world warms through the 21st century, ecosystems will need to shift about 0.42 kilometers per year (about a quarter mile per year) to keep pace with changing temperatures across the globe.
In the December 24 issue of Nature, the researchers explain that mountainous habitats will be able to move more slowly, since a modest move up or…
Just a short note, a record to be precise. Last night the sea water level rose to +1.35 meters above average in the Venice lagoon, in a quite uncharacteristic quarter-moon surge triggered by low pressure conditions on the Adriatic sea. Tonight and tomorrow night two more surges of the same entity are predicted, as shown in the following graph.
The blue line shows the predicted tide, while the red line shows the astronomical tide (the one which would occur under average atmospheric conditions). The surplus of almost one meter of water is due to exceptional conditions.
I would like to stress…