Global Soap Projects Plant Manager Eric Guthrie with World Water Relief Board Members; Clay Sparrow and Lee Burleson, and WWR project Manager Paul Byars on tour of plant. Global Soap donated 12,000 bars of soap to World Water Relief for schools in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. “Hotel soap that was [...]
Seattletimes: Environmentalists and several major insurers argue policymakers must move quickly to cut carbon emissions and devise strategies to adapt to climate impacts. WASHINGTON — Scientists are increasingly confident that the uptick in heat waves and heavier rainfall is linked to human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions, posing a heightened risk to the world’s population, according to two [...]
NASA: In a speech on March 22, 2012, marking World Water Day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton launched a new partnership to improve water security. The U.S. Water Partnership is a public-private partnership that seeks to mobilize U.S.-based knowledge, expertise and resources to improve water security around the world, particularly in those countries most [...]
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AFP: The ability of forests, plants and soil to suck carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air has been under-estimated, according to a study on Wednesday that challenges a benchmark for calculating the greenhouse-gas problem. Like the sea, the land is a carbon “sink”, or sponge, helping to absorb heat-trapping CO2 disgorged by the burning of [...]
Alertnet: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) agreed earlier this month to set up a global system for climate information services, which aims to fill existing gaps in provision in the least-developed countries. In a message to the congress that endorsed the plan, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the Global Framework for Climate Services as vital [...]
Forestry Nepal: This assessment report assesses the nature and type of climate change impacts on forests in general and forest in Nepal, by reviewing available literature and compiling the observations. A key conclusion coming out of this review is that climate change is not only an issue of international concern but is now a local [...]
Climate change has caused staple crop yields around the globe to decrease significantly since 1980 according to a new study published in Science Magazine. The research showed an association between weather trends and a 3.8 and 5.5 percent decline in global corn and wheat yields, respectively. The shortfall equals the annual yield of corn in Mexico, some 23 metric [...]
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