climate change
Please join Peru’s water regulator SUNASS, the Swiss Water Partnership, and Forest Trends for a special event announcing the largest financial commitment to green water infrastructure for any Latin American city.
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Held on 6-7 December, the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, http://www.landscapes.org/ will bring together 1500 participants, including experts from all land-use sectors and climate change negotiators. They will discuss the...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) announced the launch of Open Foris, a suite of open source software tools to monitor forest inventory. Piloted in ten countries, the tools allow for data entry on smart phones or tablets.
Overall, the objective of the tools...
Girdling the Earth are 25 mountains whose peaks stand out a brilliant white against the dark rock. But in 25 years from now, an Australian scientist says, the snow on these equatorial summits will have vanished—because climate change will have raised the temperature enough to melt...
A Michigan organization is trying to spread some of the world’s biggest trees.
At the foot of a giant sequoia in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, two tree experts stepped into harnesses, inched up ropes and headed into the air. Climbing more than 20 stories, they...
This summer, Acadia National Park turns 100. Born on July 8, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson forever safeguarded 5,000 acres on Mount Desert Island, the park has evolved from a getaway for the wealthy to arguably Maine’s most precious natural resource.
While great fanfare...
Nomination for the much coveted Award, launched by the UIAA in 2013 and sponsored by...
Mountain ecosystems enrich the lives of over half of the world’s population as a source of water, energy, agriculture and other essential goods and services. Unfortunately, while the impact of climate change is accentuated at high altitude, such regions are often on the edge of...
If you’ve ever dreamed about fishing in the West, chances are you’ve pictured something like the South Fork of the Flathead, an achingly beautiful turquoise river tumbling over multicolored pebbles and wending through the deep forest of northwest Montana.
Wade Fredenberg is...
A presentation about mountain ecosystems and sustainable development was delivered during the Eleventh Conference of Youth that was held in Paris last November.
Each year, a few days prior to the beginning of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework...
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