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Q&A : ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
Athar Parvaiz interviews CHEWANG NORPHEL, India's 'Glacier Man'
LADAKH, India, Nov 22 (IPS) His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.

 
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INDIA : ‘Glacier Man’ Vows to Build More Artificial Glaciers
Keya Acharya
LADAKH, India, Nov 22 (IPS) He is well known as India’s ‘glacier man’, but for 74-year-old retired government civil engineer, Chewang Norphel, accolades have made little dent in his quiet determination to build more high-altitude water conservation systems, or ‘artificial glaciers’, to beat the lack of water from receding Himalayan glaciers.

 
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CLIMATE CHANGE : Health at Risk
Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Nov 20 (IPS) The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.

 
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CLIMATE CHANGE : The Danish Example
Julio Godoy* - IPS/IFEJ
COPENHAGEN, Nov 20 (IPS) Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.

 
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CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO : A Policy of Pretence
Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (IPS) Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.

 
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BIODIVERSITY : Plants Finally Get DNA Barcodes
Stephen Leahy*
MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov 20 (Tierramérica) Advances made in genetic profiling could be used to fight illegal timber trading, provide authentication of herbal medicines and map entire food chains, according to experts at a conference of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

 
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CAMBODIA : Once ‘Extinct’ Crocodile Claws Its Way Back to Survival
Robert Carmichael
PHNOM PENH, Nov 20 (IPS) Siamese crocodiles once ranged far and wide across South-east Asia, from Indonesia to Vietnam, Laos to Thailand. But habitat loss and poaching virtually wiped out the three-metre long animals. Twenty years ago they were classified as effectively extinct in the wild.

 
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CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND : Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
Ron Corben
BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine.

 
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CLIMATE CHANGE-URUGUAY : Adaptation Is the Name of the Game
Raúl Pierri
MONTEVIDEO, Nov 19 (IPS) Uruguay must start focusing on efforts against global warming, and work in a coordinated manner with its South American neighbours, said one of the scientists consulted for the First Regional Report on Climate Change produced by Tierramérica, which was released Thursday.

 
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ENERGY-TANZANIA : Charcoal a Dirty Trade-Off
Jessie Boylan
DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 19 (IPS) The sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Changombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop.

 
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ENVIRONMENT : Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Analysis by Janet Larsen*
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS) Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history.

 

 

 

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