Telegraph: And why?” my wife Lucy demanded yesterday as she peeled off her gardening gloves, “are my clematis and roses in full bloom on November 1, and why am I still being bitten by gnats and midges?” Standing in shirt sleeves and muddy-kneed cords, brandishing a pair of secateurs, she sounded cross. “I’m supposed to

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Earth Times: Flecks of soot from a smoky open stove in India blacken more than just the roofs of the hut it is smoldering in. Fine particles of such smoke lodge deep in the lungs of women preparing meals, gifting them a dark scourge of ill-health and premature death. That same black soot floats higher

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Zee News: The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined

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The Sunday Morning Herald: ‘THE claim ‘the science is settled’ is plainly false due to the many problems with the AGW [anthropogenic global warming] hypothesis (e.g. global temperatures have not risen since 1998 despite rising CO2 levels; alarmism is based on flawed models that do not reflect empirical measurements.)” STEPHEN HARPER ”Why is the Australian

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May 29-31, 2012 | EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland  CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: DEADLINE DECEMBER 15, 2011 http://cooperation.epfl.ch/2012Tech4Dev As a UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV) will host an international conference concerning Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty? at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on 29-31

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UNESCO/Japan Young Researchers’ Fellowships Programme (UNESCO/Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowships Programme) Also available: Japanese version  2012 Cycle – Reinforcing its belief in “people building the next era”, the Government of Japan offers 20 fellowships per year, for the twelfth consecutive year, to be awarded to deserving candidates from developing countries, especially the least developed countries (LDCs), who

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 ——————————————— UPCOMING EVENTS ——————————————— The Alpine Convention Platform Water Management in the Alps announces the International Workshop on Sediment Transport, 16 December 2011, Vienna, Austria. Applications due by 20 November 2011: jakob.schrittwieser@lebensministerium.at The Uplands Program at Hohenheim University is organizing a three day scientific conference Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas, 16–18

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United Nations University (UNU), in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Australian Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) seek submissions for a workshop on “Climate Change Mitigation with Indigenous Peoples: Practices, Lessons Learned and Prospects.” The workshop aims to reflect

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Deadline for abstract submission for BALWOIS 2012 Conference (Fifth International Scientific Conference on Water, Climate and Environment, from 28 May to 02 June 2012, Ohrid, Macedonia) is POSTPONED until 20th of November 2011 (information at www.balwois.com/2012).  We hope this extra time will encourage more of you to consider participating and please submit your abstracts as

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The Sustainability Science Program at Harvard University invites applications for resident fellowships in sustainability science for the academic year beginning in September 2012. The fellowship competition is open to advanced doctoral and post-doctoral students, and to mid-career professionals engaged in research or practice to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that promote

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The Nordic Climate Facility (NCF) has, launched the Third Call for Proposals on “Innovative low-cost climate solutions targeted for local businesses” in eligible developing countries.  The deadline for submitting proposals is 16 January 2012. The aim of the Nordic Climate Facility (NCF) is to promote the transfer of technology, know-how and innovative ideas between the

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Submission of abstracts to the conference website until 15 November 2011 (extended from 1 November) Organizers: “The Uplands Program”, Hohenheim University The Uplands Program is organizing a three day scientific conference on Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountain Areas at Hohenheim University in Stuttgart from 16-18 April 2012. This conference aims to bring

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