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Austrian glaciers shrink the most in five years - March 2008
Date :04/21/2008
Austria's glaciers retreated more than 22 metres (24 yards) on average last year, in the biggest shrinking for five years, the country's Alpine Club said Saturday.
"All glaciers experienced melting and retreated... an average of 22.2 metres" in the 2006-2007 period, the Alpine Club said, citing measurements of 93 glaciers by its specialists who blamed milder than normal temperatures.
Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Expected, UN Reports - March 2008
Date :04/14/2008
Data from close to 30 reference glaciers in nine mountain ranges indicate that between the years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 the average rate of melting and thinning more than doubled.
Melting glaciers to shrink crop harvests in India, China
Date :04/14/2008
Shrinking Himalayan glaciers will turn the Ganga in India and the Yangtze in China into seasonal rivers that dry up in summers, massively reducing grain harvests, and may cause “politically unmanageable food shortages” in the region, a leading US environmental expert has warned
Logging in Canada's Boreal Forest could trigger "carbon bomb" impacting global climate - April 2008
Date :04/14/2008
Logging in Canada's boreal forest is exacerbating global warming
by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage says a new
Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more
susceptible to global warming impacts like wild fires and insect
outbreaks which in turn release more greenhouse gases.
www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2008/10/c4264.html
Forest dwellers from 11 nations form alliance over climate change - April 4, 2008
Date :04/14/2008
Traditional rain forest communities from 11 Latin American nations formed an alliance Friday to demand they have a say in the debate over how to tackle global climate change.
The Manaus declaration, signed in the Amazon jungle capital of the same name, calls on governments to respect forest dwellers' rights to their land, natural resources and their traditional ways of life
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/04/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Forest-Dwellers.php
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