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Small islands seek 2011 deadline for climate deal

...floods in Pakistan and a heatwave in Russia highlighted wider risks. "The islands are uniquely vulnerable because of our size, our remoteness, our weak capacity," she said. She said that AOSIS needed ...

25 Nov 2010

Small islands seek 2011 deadline for climate deal

News / Energy

Australian activists close down largest coal port

...floods in Pakistan. "We have stopped all operations in the coal port," said Dean. "These weather events are consistent with the scientific predictions for climate change. We feel like Australia's coal...

26 Sep 2010

Australian activists close down largest coal port

News / Carbon & Climate

Report sees sharper sea rise from Arctic melt

...flooding of New York City's subways. Oceans will not rise uniformly worldwide, because of currents, winds and other factors, but such low-lying areas as Bangladesh and Florida will likely be hard-hit....

3 May 2011

Report sees sharper sea rise from Arctic melt

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change's impact on tourism to be calculated

...floods, and cyclones, and quantify the amount of money now generated by nature-based tourism activity. Tourism accounted for about 595,000, or 29 per cent, of the businesses operating in Australia in ...

3 Aug 2010

Climate change's impact on tourism to be calculated

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Singapore's PUB wins two international water awards

...flooding, as well as be a focal point for recreational activities. Together with the Punggol and Serangoon Reservoirs, which will be opened over the next few years, the Marina Reservoir will increase ...

24 Sep 2010

Singapore's PUB wins two international water awards

News / Policy & Finance

EU says fulfils climate aid pledge, but is it new?

...flood warning system. The Czech Republic also granted 400,000 euros to Ethiopia for projects to revitalize wells, increase water supplies and halt the erosion of soils. Other projects focus on mitigat...

15 Nov 2010

EU says fulfils climate aid pledge, but is it new?

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Poor accuse Japan of jeopardizing UN climate talks

...floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising seas. "We are hopeful that they will persuade our good friends the Japanese to reconsider accepting (an extension), without which there will be no successful out...

1 Dec 2010

Poor accuse Japan of jeopardizing UN climate talks

News / Transport

$3 billion transport projects to ease Ho Chi Minh City gridlock

...flood-proof, with half of the road consisting of bridges and viaducts. The Government of Japan is expected to provide $635 million for the Ben Luc-Long Thanh Expressway Project, with the Government of...

14 Dec 2010

$3 billion transport projects to ease Ho Chi Minh City gridlock

News / Food & Agriculture

Asia: Key facts about rice

...flooded with water. Rough rice is also called paddy rice. There are two methods of growing rice: transplanting and direct seeding. Some 120,000 varieties of rice exist today. Worldwide, 80 million hec...

8 Nov 2010

Asia: Key facts about rice

News / Carbon & Climate

Journalists recognised for stories on green technology in inaugural ASEAN awards

...floods, pollution, crime, amongst others, but took an approach that placed a lot of emphasis on the environment, water and pollution even while it grew rapidly. What's interesting, Mr Khoo said, was t...

15 Feb 2011

Journalists recognised for stories on green technology in inaugural ASEAN awards

Opinion / Policy & Finance

You can't separate climate from economy

This summer's fires in Russia and floods in China and Pakistan fit right into patterns of climate change predicted by scientists' reports for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007. Whi...

6 Sep 2010

You can't separate climate from economy

News / Water

Nation joins pilot scheme to recycle industrial wastewater

...flooding and sea water intrusion into aquifers and rivers, scientists said at the workshop. Besides, "high water stress" has been observed due to over-exploitation of freshwater resources for industri...

22 Dec 2010

Nation joins pilot scheme to recycle industrial wastewater

News / Carbon & Climate

DNA testing catches up with illegal logging trade

...flooded with timber that was cut down outside designated logging areas, or outside agreed environmental controls. About 10 per cent of all imported wood products used in Australia, including sawn logs...

10 Sep 2010

DNA testing catches up with illegal logging trade

News / Cities

City urged to tap heaven-sent gift

...floods.''

10 Nov 2010

City urged to tap heaven-sent gift

News / Food & Agriculture

Vietnam aims to boost rice crop for food security

...floods, droughts, and diseases," Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. "The Vietnamese government has identified that ensuring long-term national food security under any circumstance is essential for t...

9 Nov 2010

Vietnam aims to boost rice crop for food security

News / Carbon & Climate

China likely bright spot in Asia climate action

...floods, heat waves and rising sea levels. Across the region, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Taiwan are working on myriad policy steps to put a price on carbon emissions, drive more in...

31 Dec 2010

China likely bright spot in Asia climate action

News / Carbon & Climate

Need for predictive gauge of climate change impact stressed

...floods in Leh district that claimed close to 200 lives, experts are stressing the need for modelling the impact of climate change at the local level to predict such calamities in advance. “Rainfall re...

19 Aug 2010

Need for predictive gauge of climate change impact stressed

News / Policy & Finance

U.N. climate talks seek to define rich, poor duties

...floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels. Cancun will seek agreement on a smaller package of measures including a "green fund" to channel aid to the poor or efforts to protect tropical forest...

30 Nov 2010

U.N. climate talks seek to define rich, poor duties

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Climate costs set to rise, technology can help: U.N.

...floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising sea levels. "And the decline in costs might be far more rapid than expected." Phone breakthroughs Telephone bills, for instance, had plunged in recent years beca...

22 Nov 2010

Climate costs set to rise, technology can help: U.N.

News / Policy & Finance

Chinese dams challenge Western development monopoly

...flood two thousand hectares of protected forest," notes IR in a study, titled ‘Cambodia’s hydropower development and China’s involvement’. But Hun Sen leaves little room for such criticism levelled by...

10 Jan 2011

Chinese dams challenge Western development monopoly

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