Water, mountains’ “blue gold”newsIt’s our planet’s most precious resource and our cities are powered by it: it’s water! And water comes from mountains. It flows from the watersheds at higher altitudes creating life along its course, all the way down to the river deltas. The sustainable management of water is the...
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2nd Nordic International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, Helsinki, 29-31 August 2012newsThe Second Nordic International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation: "Adaptation Research Meets Adaptation Decision-Making" will be held from 29 to 31 August 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. The conference is jointly organized by the NordForsk TFI Network initiative on Effect Studies and the Adaptation to Climate Change network (NORDCLAD-Net...
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Gender and Climate - Launch of FAO and CGIAR Training GuidenewsThe Training Guide “Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Rural Development” is now available online. The guide was jointly developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) of the Consultative Group...
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IUCN engaging local communities to restore water flow in the Himalayan regionnewsAcross the Himalayan region in India springs are drying up, owing to changes in precipitation patterns and decline of the watershed’s forests. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with the support of mobile phone company Nokia, launched a project to restore water flow in the Balkila...
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"Himalaya Water Tower" Highscrapers to solve access to water?newsChinese designer/engineers Zhi Zheng, Hongchuan Zhao and Dongbai Song have put forth a tantalizing proposal that combines human scientific ingenuity with a practical, prescient vision for a sustainable future. The approximately 55,000 icy glaciers in the Himalayan region hold 40 percent of the world’s fresh water and together...
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Monitoring the Effects of Climate Change in Protected Ecosystems - 19, 20 and 21 March 2012, Santiago de ChilenewsThe Workshop “Monitoring the Effects of Climate Change in Protected Ecosystems” is going to take place on 19, 20 and 21 March 2012 at the FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Santiago de Chile. Ranging from Mexico to the Land of Fire in Argentina,...
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