Bhutan Observer: Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley on Thursday urged some 100 heads of states and governments to work towards treading on a saner, safer and more sustainable path of development for the sake of humanity’s future at the opening session of Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Sustainability, wellbeing and happiness

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Scidevnet: Pakistan’s new national sustainable development strategy (NSDS) boasts a ‘green action agenda’ and proposes to set up a knowledge management system that is based on science, technology and innovation. The strategy document, presented at a side-event at the Rio+20 summit last month (22 June), is linked with the country’s climate adaptation strategies. Jawed Malik,

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BBC: Climate change is driving adaptive shifts within species, but research on plants has been focused on phenology. Leaf morphology has demonstrated links with climate and varies within species along climate gradients. We predicted that, given within-species variation along a climate gradient, a morphological shift should have occurred over time due to climate change. We

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IUCN: In Himalayan regions the temperature has been rising day by day. The different study report shows that temperatures in the Himalayas are increasing at a faster rate. What snow was remaining on the mountains has melted completely and the glaciers have retreated quickly. Many of the mountain ranges are barren, without snow over them.

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CGIAR: Getting a better understanding of how climate variability affects rural men and women differently, and in different regions, is challenging. Since their ability to respond to change and take action that will make them more resilient and able to adapt to a changing climate (alongside all the other social and economic change they are

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CGIAR: New hard-hitting analysis from the Asia Development Bank (ADB) leaves no doubt that climate change is the single biggest risk to food security in the continent where 60% of us live. At the sub-continental level, the picture is of course more complex. Recent science suggests there may even be spots of optimism for food

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