Welcome to Culture, Politics, and Climate Change, an international conference hosted at the University of Colorado Boulder. This scholarly meeting promises to be a lively and enriching gathering of some of the foremost International and American scholars in fields such as Environmental Communication, Environmental Policy and Politics, Risk Communication, Visual Culture, Religion and the Environment,

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After the grand success of the first Indian Forest Congress held in New Delhi from November 22 to 25, the second Indian Forest Congress will be held in Bangalore from November 7 to 10 this year. This information was disclosed at a meeting held recently between Dr PJ Dilip Kumar, Director General of Forests (DGF)

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Brisbane times: If you enjoyed a cup of coffee this morning, it might interest you to know it took 140 litres of water to produce that cup. Such a simple but profound equation. It is strange, strange, strange that when it comes to the most important subject on the planet, the basis of all life

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Date:  Nov. 27-29, 2013 Venue: Kathmandu, Nepal Summary: Water is critical for sustainable development, environmental integrity and the eradication of poverty and hunger.  Changes in climates have been affecting adversely to water bodies, hydrological regimes and natural ecosystems. Environment Changes have been worrying issues everywhere. It is more concerned in the mountainous areas.  With this context,

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Scholarships Offered By: University of Cambridge, England, UK Target Countries: Less developed and developing countries Subjects for Scholarships: environment, forestry, biodiversity, earth sciences, conservation, natural resource management and related subjects. University of Cambridge has announced scholarships to support the students from less developed and developing countries that are rich in biodiversity through the Miriam Rothschild

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Business Insurance: Insurers and reinsurers are becoming more involved in managing risks related to climate change, though more work needs to be done, recent research concludes. In addition, the outcome of the recent U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, was disappointing for the industry, according to a leading reinsurer. In a recent report

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NDRC: Climate change promises to have a very big impact on water supplies in the United States as well as around the world. A recent study commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a leading environmental group, and carried out by the consulting firm Tetra Tech found that one out of three counties across

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Global warming results in habitat loss for many species, new research shows. In a world first, scientists with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the University of Queensland have measured the relationship between climate change and habitat loss on plants and animals on a global scale. Their results, published recently in Global

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The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) is holding its eighth annual Energy Summer School from 17th June – 22nd June 2011 at the University of Warwick in the English Midlands. There will be 100 places available for UK and international students. The School has been specifically designed to give second year PhD students an understanding

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: February 1st, 2012 The 31st edition of the International Energy Workshop (IEW) will be held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 19–21, 2012. The IEW (www.internationalenergyworkshop.org) is a leading conference for the international energy modeling community. The IEW provides a venue for scholars and researchers to compare quantitative

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The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is calling for pre-proposals for 1, 2 or 3 year projects that systematically gather and make widely available information required to realize conservation outcomes.    No minimum or maximum funding limit has been established for individual grants, but JRS is allocating an amount of USD 1 million to fund this new

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The International Climate Change Information Programme(ICCIP – www.iccip.net) is a world class setting, aimed atfostering communication, education and training on mattersrelated to climate change. Since 2008, ICCIP runs the on-lineclimate conference series (Climate 2008, Climate 2009,(Climate 2010, Climate 2011) which have been counting onmillions of participants from over 140 countries. For this year´s one-line climate

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GBIF invites proposals from graduate students for the 2012 YoungResearchers Award. This prize intends to foster innovative research and discovery inbiodiversity informatics. Two awards of €4,000 will be available to graduate students in a master’sor doctoral programme at a university in a GBIF Voting Participant orAssociate Participant country. Submitted proposals will be reviewed by theHead

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The Stockholm Environment Institute(SEI)is hiring a Research Fellow with a background in household energy/energy access to join the Bioresources Group at the SEI Stockholm Centre. Deadline for applications is 3 February, 2012. See full description and application details here: http://www.sei-international.org/working-for-sei/research-fellow-household-energy-and-energy-access Best Regards, Fiona LambeResearch Fellow

Japan Times: Rising, warming and increasingly acidic seas threaten the very survival of Pacific island countries. The retreat of glaciers and snowfields in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau jeopardize these “water towers” on which 1 billion Asians depend for flows during the dry season and drought years. More than 450 million Asians live within the

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My Republica: The dense fog over the Nepal Terai in the second and third weeks of December 2011 took a total of 40 lives because of the resultant cold wave it caused. The trend has followed for the past two decades as dense fog and cold wave claim several lives every year, with the poor

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Canberratimes: Canada’s announcement before Christmas that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol could not have been better timed to puncture the sense of progress generated by the UN climate change conference in Durban just two days earlier. There, delegates had celebrated a dramatic and unexpected conclusion that saw all 194 countries (including Canada)

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Times of India: The greatest problem facing India is global warming. War, internal subversion and a global economic meltdown are all very serious threats, but they can be stopped or contained. Global warming, on the other hand, seems unstoppable and uncontainable. The outcome of the Durban summit on climate change suggests it is already too

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Nature: Where political leadership on climate change is lacking, scientists must be prepared to stick their heads above the parapet. Consider the following as a statement of national ambition: “The Federal Climate Change Action Plan presents a strategy for launching a transformation in public attitudes and behavior towards climate-change risk. Key state, industry and nonprofit

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DNA India: A new study of changing mountain vegetation has suggested that some alpine meadows could disappear within the next few decades as a result of climate change. The first ever pan-European study carried out by an international group of researchers revealed that climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine vegetation than

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