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Mauritania: Desertification Threatens to Wipe Out Livelihoods, Communities
Published December 2, 2008, 12:47 pm, AllAfrica.com
Nouakchott — Environmental degradation, responsible for the dangerous displacement of sand dunes in Mauritania, has wiped out homes, livestock and livelihoods throughout the desert country.
ANALYSIS-Brazil's Amazon plan sounds bold, but doubts abound
Published December 2, 2008, 12:35 pm, AlertNet
Source: Reuters By Raymond Colitt and Stuart Grudgings BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 2 (Reuters) - With its bold pledge to halve the rate of Amazon deforestation, Brazil wants to boost its international ...
MAURITANIA: Desertification threatens to wipe out livelihoods, communities
Published December 2, 2008, 11:35 am, AlertNet
Source: IRIN Environmental degradation, responsible for the dangerous displacement of sand dunes in Mauritania, has wiped out homes, livestock and livelihoods throughout the desert country. An October UN study estimated that land degradation costs nearly US$200 million annually in potential revenue losses and health care expenses.
Baby talk
Published December 2, 2008, 4:03 am, BBC News
Is it ethical to add more people to our crowded planet?
Baby decisions - adding to the world's woes?
Published December 2, 2008, 3:48 am, BBC News
As you decide whether or not to have children, should you take the world's increasing stack of environmental woes into account?
The Limits of Growth – Part I
Published December 1, 2008, 12:06 pm, YaleGlobal Online
COPENHAGEN: The world suffers from a “double pneumonia” – financial and environmental crises, both likely to tip over into disasters for many more people. We cannot cure double pneumonia by treating one lung at a time.
Rwanda: Frw 800 Million Chinese Grant for New Hospital
Published December 1, 2008, 8:49 am, AllAfrica.com
Rwanda and China last week signed a Yuan 10 million (Frw 800m) grant on economic and technical cooperation, as agreed during the Beijing summit of the forum on China-Africa cooperation.
Nigeria: Jonathan, Duke Canvass Environmental Protection
Published December 1, 2008, 8:05 am, AllAfrica.com
Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, and former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, have called for the protection of the environment to guard against the effects of global warming currently threatening the earth.
Seedling Sales from Inner Mongolia
Published December 1, 2008, 5:45 am, CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance
Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc. is pleased to announce the following updates from its Inner Mongolia greenhouse operations:
EU CLIMATE PLANS 'DANGEROUSLY INADEQUATE' SAYS NEW REPORT
Published December 1, 2008, 3:50 am, AlertNet
Christian Aid - UK European plans to keep world temperatures within safe limits are dangerously inadequate and must be much more ambitious before they can form the template for global action, a new report warns today ...
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