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 Stories About: agriculture AND climate AND climate change impacts AND deforestation
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Victoria Falling
Climate change, deforestation, erosion take toll on African landscape |
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10 Jun 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:01 PM on 10 Jun 2008 A new United Nations atlas depicts alarming changes to Africa's landscape. On a continent that produces a mere 4 percent of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions, significant landmarks are taking a hit from climate change: Lake Chad and Lake Victoria are shrinking each year, and Mt. Kilimanjaro could be snow-free by 2020. The deforestation rate in Africa is twice the world aver ... |
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| Topics: Africa, agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, news, United Nations (all these topics) |
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Fire and rain
The 'hell' before the 'high water' in the U.S. |
Jon Rynn |
23 Feb 2008 |
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| I just wanted to alert Grist readers to an excellent post at The Oil Drum called 'Fire and Rain: The Consequences of Changing Climate on Rainfall, Wildfire and Agriculture.' The author points out that 'Current climate change predictions for much of the West show increased precipitation in the winter or spring, along with earlier and drier summers.' To summarize his post, the drier summers will have profound impacts on the forests, grasslands, and agricultural areas. It ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation (all these topics) |
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