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2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference
OpenDate : November 29, 2010The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Mexico from 29 November 2010 to 10 December 2010.
The conference is officially referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) and the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP6).
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8th International Conference African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)
OpenDate : October 25, 2010Date: 25-29 October, 2010
Location: Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThe central theme of the conference is:
Earth Observation for Africa’s Development Agenda
The four major Scientific Sub-Themes of the conference are:
- Food and water security (Mapping Production Zones, Yield Forecast, Agricultural and Pastoral Systems, Assessing (quality and quantity) of water resources in Africa, Surface water body monitoring, Seasonal hydrological characteristics assessment, Flood forecasting).
- Energy resources (Mapping, monitoring and management of energy resources, Power infrastructure management, etc.)
- Disaster risk reduction (Risk assessment for sustainable development, Provision of geo-information on hazards and risks, Disaster risk reduction in national policy, Strengthening community level capacities to reduce disaster risk at the local level, Disaster Mitigation, Vulnerability to compounded disasters, Predicting vulnerability to urbanization and to climate change)
- Marine and costal management (Resources & sustainable development; Marine ecosystem; Coastal, marine, and oceanography resources management; Assimilation, modelling and forecasting: towards ocean and coastal products and services in Africa; Quantitative indicators of risk and resilience of coastal populations; Impacts of coastal inundation on coastal ecosystems; Monitoring and modelling coastal lagoons)
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GeOnG 2010 - 2nd Forum of Geomatic for Humanitarian Service
OpenDate : September 23, 2010This Forum tries to be a meeting point for the actors from the humanitarian field. A place where we can meet each other, show our projects, share experiences, discover different ways of working, analyse the daily problems we find and identify the future challenges. That is to say, collaborating to improve our actions within the different contexts, humanitarian and developmental.
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Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
OpenDate : September 01, 2010By Juliette Jowit, guardian.co.uk
The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront", in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.
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Climate Change, Like A Flood, Hits Those at the Bottom Hardest
OpenDate : August 30, 2010By RP Siegel, 3p Contributor
If you’re unfortunate enough to have a flood in your area, the first question you’ll want to ask yourself is how high up the hill you are. You’ll want to get yourself to safety and then perhaps give a thought to those lower down. Or, if you’re of a more humanitarian nature, you might head downhill to see if you can lend a hand to those who will surely need it.The same logic applies to global warming. It’s going to impact those at the bottom of the economic hill, or what economists sometimes call the base of the pyramid, most severely.
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El Niños Are Growing Stronger, NASA/NOAA Study Finds
OpenDate : August 29, 2010Science Daily
A relatively new type of El Niño, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Niños and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting.
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Time to blame climate change for extreme weather?
OpenDate : August 26, 2010By Anil Ananthaswamy New Scientist
It IS time to start asking the hard questions. Countless people in flood-stricken Pakistan have lost families and livelihoods. Who can they hold responsible and turn to for reparations?
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France to drain lake under Mont Blanc glacier
OpenDate : August 25, 2010BBC News
French engineers are set to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and threatens to flood the St Gervais valley.
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Researchers monitoring Hawaii coral for bleaching
OpenDate : August 23, 2010By Audrey Mcavoy, Associated Press Writer
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Scientists plan to monitor corals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands next month for signs of bleaching that could harm the reefs.
Corals become stressed and expel the algae that live inside them when temperatures are warmer than normal. This causes corals to lose their color and appear white.
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Satellites show mangrove forest loss even worse than estimated
OpenDate : August 20, 2010By Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com
New satellite data shows that human actions are wiping out mangrove forests even faster than previous bleak estimates. Conducted by the US Geological Survey and NASA, the researchers found that mangroves comprise 12.3 percent less area than previously estimated. In total, satellites reveal that mangrove forests cover approximately 53,290 square miles (137,760 square kilometers).