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Action Alert: Protest Australia’s Continued Ancient Forest Logging

April 10, 2008 – 1:47 am

From Climate Ark and Forests.org, projects of Ecological Internet: Australia’s new “climate friendly” government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must end. Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests, even as their [...]

By Francis Scudellari | Also posted in activism, environment, forests, logging | Comments (0)

Plans to curb deforestation need more consideration

December 11, 2007 – 2:12 am

Imelda V. Abano and Hepeng Jia 7 December 2007 Source: SciDev.Net [BALI/BEIJING] Incentives to tackle deforestation and forest degradation can play a key role in combating climate change and requires a strong policy framework that is fair to poor communities, says a new report. The report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), was [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in carbon emissions, deforestation, degredation | Comments (0)

Algeria ‘on track’ to launch second satellite system

November 11, 2007 – 4:47 am

Hichem Bouledjout 2 November 2007 Source: SciDev.Net Algeria is on track to launch its second satellite system, Alsat-2, in late 2008, revealed a top space official this week (30 October). The director-general of Algeria’s space agency ASAL, Azzedine Oussedik, was speaking at an international workshop, ‘Weather change and the role of space technologies’, held in [...]

By Deborah | Also posted in mapping, natural disasters, satellite, weather change | Comments (0)