Scidevnet: Indoor air pollution caused by cooking with biomass fuels could be a risk factor in depression among women in their child-bearing years, a new study shows. The study covered 952 women, between 25 and 46 years of age, from 15 villages in West Bengal state, who cooked with wood, dung cakes, crop residues and

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Huffingtonpost: Agriculture stands at the nexus of three of humankind’s greatest challenges in the 21st century: achieving food and nutritional security, adapting to a changing climate that will severely hit agricultural production, and making a significant contribution to reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture. As the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has argued,

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EPA: Introduction to Global Issues: Many global issues are climate-related, including basic needs such as food, water, health, and shelter. Changes in climate may threaten these needs with increased temperatures, sea level rise, changes in precipitation, and more frequent or intense extreme events. Climate change will affect individuals and groups differently. Certain groups of people

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Nature: Many scientists and policymakers agree that large financial flows from richer to poorer countries will be necessary to reach an agreement on reducing greenhouse-gas emissions enough to keep global warming below 2 °C. But the required amounts of transfer payments and justifications for them remain contested. We contribute to this debate by developing an argument

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Manila Bulletin: To dub Mount Qomolangma (Mount Everest) “the world’s highest garbage dump” is neither novel nor obscure. In 1963, 10 years after human beings first conquered the world’s highest mountain, a Sherpa guide witnessed human waste, discarded climbing gears, and other rubbish on the summit and asserted that parts of the mountain had become

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Himmotthan Society: How do we see our rivers as? Are they merely conduits for water that is to be used to its fullest extent? Or are they valued and revered ecosystems? The Himmotthan Society, India with International Rivers, U.S.A. and WWF-India aimed to answer these questions by organizing a workshop on ‘Environmental Flows’ with the

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