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When we finally get people to Mars to live and form a colony, what will they eat? Eventually these pioneers will have to move away from the supplies they take with them from Earth and start to grow their own food in the Red Planet’s soil. In the movie "The Martian," partly famed for...
The place most likely to be struck by lightning in the world is one spot above Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, according to new data.
Over this mountain lake, there was a lightning show an astounding 297 days out of 365 days a year, on average. Even more surprising, the ...
The GEF-funded project ‘Ecosystem-based Adaptation through South-South Cooperation’ (EbA South), implemented by UNEP and executed by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), is launching a call for proposals for the development of a user-friendly and...
The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and the Government of Andorra, in collaboration with the parish of Sant Julià de Lòria , will organize the 9th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism (2-4 March 2016).
Since the first edition, the main objective of...
En los próximos cinco años se debe lograr la titulación de todas las tierras de las comunidades campesinas y nativas
- Por Eduardo Vega Luna*
En el 2015 los derechos de los pueblos indígenas han estado presentes en la agenda...
In the hit movie, “The Martian”, NASA astronaut Mark Watney survives by planting potatoes in one of the modules of the ...
During the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, Nepal’s then environment minister Ganesh Shah had a reason to be frustrated. Not because the global meet was not moving ahead but that it did not address the issues of mountain countries. “They are talking about oceans, islands, deserts...
Este nuevo año ha sido declarado Año Internacional de las Legumbres[1]. En buena hora, porque las lentejas, los fríjoles, las habas y los garbanzos son un elemento fundamental del menú diario para la población de todo el...
"...el desarrollo social y económico depende de la gestión sostenible de los recursos naturales de nuestro planeta. Por ello, estamos decididos a preservar y utilizar de forma sostenible los océanos y los mares, los recursos de agua dulce, y los...
The Andean Forests Program together with the ASEAN Social Forestry Network, African Forest Forum and the Global Program on Climate Change of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation organized a joint session...
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