Alertnet: A new report by the United Nations’ agency on reducing disasters (UNISDR) provides a snapshot of how measures to reduce the risk of disasters, and programmes to adapt to the impacts of climate change, are undertaken and integrated in Asia Pacific. At the crossroads: climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Asia and

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Global concern over climate change has derived both challenges and opportunities on protected area over the past decades. Climate change is the most burning issue of this country and global as well. Its impacts have been observed on environment as well as on socio-economic sectors. Various governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Nepal works on Climate

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Water is usually considered an input for generating power in case of thermal and hydro-electric power stations. However, when it comes to usage the situation is reversed, particularly when it is used for extracting and distributing water. Urban and rural water supply systems need power to distribute water through pipe networks and farmers need power

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A a new Guide released by UNDP-UNEP entitled “Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Development Planning: A Guide for Practitioners”. Climate change adaptation is an area of growing concern and engagement for many developing countries. Increasingly, countries are coming to realize that, in the long term, climate change adaptation needs to be supported by an integrated,

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CSDI: Home Gardening for Food Security:  During the past few years while I’ve been working in Guatemala I haven’t had access a garden. Just a month ago I changed houses and have a little plot of ground now. I began collecting seed packets a few months ago in anticipation of the move. Two weeks ago,

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Economics Times: Sometime next month, on the steaming fringes of an Icelandic volcano, an international team of scientists will begin pumping “seltzer water” into a deep hole, producing a brew that will lock away carbon dioxide forever. Chemically disposing of CO2, the chief greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, is a kind of 21st-century alchemy

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A Documentary on the Loss of Livelihood due to the problem of floods and sand-casting in Dhemaji District of Assam, India. Please watch this documentary and understand and realise the extent of flood induced problems in Dhemaji..The people of Matmora and Majgaon villages in the Brahmaputra basin in Assam, India. Living with Floods    

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