August 17, 2007 – 1:35 am
Monitoring climate change at the top of the world
T. V. Padma
16 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Nepal’s Khumbu glacier
Nestled in the Himalayas, bordering the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, lies tiny landlocked Nepal. The barely 250km stretch from south to north sees a land rise from under one hundred metres above sea level to 8000 metres, and climate [...]
August 12, 2007 – 2:06 pm
Michael Malakata
10 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Zambia’s Kafue River
[LUSAKA] Zambian water authorities are using information from satellite images to improve management of water resources in the country.
The project, Integrated Water Resource Management for Zambia (IWAREMA), is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) TIGER initiative (see African mapping highlights risk of drought and flood) which aims to [...]
August 7, 2007 – 10:58 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
Russia’s Deep-Sea Flag-Planting at North Pole Strikes a Chill in Canada. By Doug Struck, The Washington Post, August 7, 2007. “A dramatic submarine dive to plant the Russian flag on the seabed at the North Pole last week has rattled Canadian politics and underscored the growing stakes as the ice cap melts [...]
From: EarthJustice
Agency accused in federal court of breaking promise to protect wilderness
June 28, 2007
Denver, CO — The Bureau of Land Management is sacrificing the wilderness qualities of thousands of acres in western Colorado by granting oil and gas leases on South Shale Ridge, Earthjustice attorney Keith Bauerle argued today (6/28/2007) in federal district court. Earthjustice, [...]