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Professor Judith Rees, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & Environment and the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy delivered a lecture on ‘Adaptation to Climate Change: Policy, Economics and Governance’ as part of the IISc-UK lecture series 2010 at the Life sciences auditorium at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday 22 March 2010. Follow us on www.twitter.com/ukinindia.
I took this picture of sphagnum moss at a bog in Canada (Grand Manan Island). Sphagnum grows luxuriantly in many bogs, and a special adaptation in the leaf cells allows it to retain buoyancy in the watery environment. Each leaf cell is hollow, so that it fills with water and pockets of air, allowing it to float.
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In 2017, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners launched The Gambia’s largest natural-resource development project to help the country adapt to climate change. The overarching objective is to build climate resilience by restoring and rehabilitating at least 10,000 hectares of forests, protected areas, wildlife areas and farmland, all of which are affected by rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and deforestation.
The six-year project aims to benefit up to 11,550 Gambian households directly and 46,200 households indirectly in four regions along the Gambia River. The project is funded by a grant from the Green Climate Fund, along with contributions from the Gambian government.
Learn more about UNEP's work on adaptation: www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/cli...
Photo credit: UNEP
An important role played by the ocean is the storage and exchange of CO2 with the atmosphere, and its diffusion toward deeper layers. At high latitudes, dense waters sink, transferring carbon to the deep ocean. Warming of the ocean surface inhibits this sinking process and therefore reduces the efficiency of CO2 transport and storage. Furthermore, as water warms up, the solubility of CO2 declines, therefore less gas can be stored in the sea water.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Riccardo Pravettoni
1 июня 2013 года мы полюбили бессознательное! Взаимно! Персонажи Картонии искали источники идей. Оформляли мысли. Гонялись. Выстраивались в мыслительную процессию.
Our Environmental Monitor staff was invited to participate in Ohio Sea Grant's 7th annual writers workshop at Stone Laboratory on Lake Erie.
We were given a wide variety of presentations by scientists and researchers. Topics ranged from Lake Erie watersheds to renewable energies as universities and government agencies look to improve water quality in and around the lake. In between presentations, we were invited to explore Gibraltar Island.
From Left to right - Mark Hurst Transport Services manager Gedling Borough Council, Trent Barton, David Astill commercial manager of Nottingham City Transport and Russell Ostrowsky - Weston group Operations Director of Frank Key.
Climate change is predicted to put pressure on the Nile Valley and Delta, where about 95% of Egypt's population resides. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) consists of 15 countries, with 233 million inhabitants. Apart from Mauritius and the countries around South Africa in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), the remaining countries exhibit low rates of electricity access and use of high quality fuels. Easy access to electricity and power increases the living standard and enables the development of additional services.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Dr. Jaime Prohens (Spain; left), with Dr. Hemal Fonseka (Sri Lanka; middle) and Dr. Auguste Kouassi (Cote d’Ivoire; right) exchange seeds that “allows the complementarity of environments in order to obtain a maximum of seed combinations”, says Prohens. “Sometimes hybrid or backcross seed for particular combinations are obtained in one country but not in the others.”
Credit: Shawn Landersz for the Crop Wild Relatives Project
Sunday, 15 August 2010
The Great Suburban Walk
There’s a federal election on its way, yet our political leaders continue to backflip, delay and deny on climate change. With so much at stake, it’s time for the community to put climate action back on the election agenda.
The 2010 Walk Against Warming demand that our political leaders face up to their responsibility on climate change. We’ll remind them that to secure our votes, they must ‘Walk with the People, Not the Big Polluters’.
This year we took our message for a safe climate straight to the people that matter most – the voters.
We coordinated hundreds of Victorians in three key electorates (Melbourne, Deakin and La Trobe) to come together and letterbox. To make sure that voters in those areas know exactly what actions our leaders need to take on climate change.
So that means that less than one week before the federal election, up to 300,000 of the most influential voters in Victoria will receive our safe climate message. How good!
For more info on the day hop here: www.environmentvictoria.org.au/safe-climate/walk-against-...
Photos by Michael Chew
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
Employees supported a special Earth Month celebration with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. Around 100 volunteers supported this important environmental organisation through either gardening with the horticulture team, or lantern making for their award-winning winter lantern trails. The activities ended with a lunch and talk from Kew Director of Science, Alex Antonelli on biodiversity.
The lakes are supposed to be a little clearer in Maine. These data buoys help keep an eye on lakes across the state, where small shifts in water quality can be a big deal.
A data buoy named "Goldie" is keeping track of changes on Maine's Great Pond, a seemingly pristine lake that scientists say may actually be in slow decline.
Read the full story: www.fondriest.com/news/great-pond-data-buoy-maine-lakes-c...
Photo courtesy of Alex Wall / Colby College
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HYPREP’s technical personnel visit the Rümlang Soil and Gravel Washing Plant (ESAR).
In June 2019, UN Environment organized a technical training to build the technical capacity of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) and its technical personnel. From 11 to 21 June 2019, 21 members of HYPREP’s technical personnel received training on the management and assessment of contaminated land. The training included twelve theory modules followed by two days of field-based exercises and site visits to a soil treatment plant and a remediation site.
In 2018, the United Nations Environment Programme began a project to assist HYPREP to manage the clean-up of oil contamination in Ogoniland. Designed in response to a request from the Government, this project comes as an integral part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s continuing support to the Government of Nigeria to clean up the environmental contamination in Nigeria and achieve lasting peace in the region.
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