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Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.
Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 590 feet (180 meters), Sudeep Thakuri, a...
Some of Scotland’s rarest birds could be wiped out by the end of the century as a new UK report highlights “profound” climate change in the Highlands, experts have warned.
Ptarmigan, dotterel and snow bunting have already been forced to the tops of the highest Scottish peaks as global warming has shrunk the cooler high- altitude habitat which they need to survive.
Experts yesterday...
Projects and programme interventions of multilateral development banks have a record of systematic and widespread human rights violations for indigenous peoples in Asia. In many countries, indigenous peoples have been subjected to widespread displacement and irreversible loss of traditional livelihoods. Behind these human rights violations is the denial of indigenous peoples’ rights to their...
In Washington DC, on April 26, the FONTAGRO awards ceremony 2012-2013 was held, for the contest on “Successful Cases of Innovations in Family Agriculture in Latin America,” where recognition was given to successful proposals for innovation in farming with small-scale producers and other stakeholders in the chain.
The winner in the category of “...
The 2013 regular session of the Committee on NGOs was held earlier this year and saw a record number of applications from NGOs seeking consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). On 20-29 May, and on 7 June, the Committee will resume its session and make decisions about which NGOs to accept for general, special or roster consultative status.
As the...
Just as businesses are potentially powerful drivers of change, so are consumers. For the latter to fuel change, they need to be better aware of the impact of their choices on the environment and on the global community as a whole. Education for Sustainable Development will need to play a central role in the post-2015 development agenda. What is the role of education in changing behaviours?...
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CSDi is announcing a diploma module of eight online Community Based Adaptation (CBA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), & Rural Development field courses. These...
Faced with increasing rainfall variability – especially continuous, four-year droughts – mountain farmers in Southwest China’s Yunnan province have developed innovative strategies to minimize water-related threats to their livelihoods.
Yufang Su, Jianchu Xu and a team of World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) scientists conducted case studies of three mountain communities in rural Yunnan,...
With growing human impacts on hydrological processes over space and time, river basins around the world have evolved to become distinctive coupled human-natural systems (CHNS). The patterns and processes, reciprocal interactions and feedbacks, and co-evolution of biophysical and socioeconomic states that link humans and natural systems characterize CHNS. River basins should be managed as CHNS...
We are pleased to inform you that the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) has launched a new web portal (as a pilot project) called United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN) to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil...
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