Nature: Biodiversity increases with gentle warming. Rather than kicking off the expected cycles of extinction, periods of warming in Earth’s history were accompanied by increased biodiversity, according to a report published this week. But this does not mean that the mass extinctions that are taking place today, with Earth warming at an unprecedented rate, will

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Globalization and health: Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its geographic location, high dependence on agriculture and water resources, low adaptive capacity of its people, and weak system of emergency preparedness. This paper is the first ever attempt to rank the agro-ecological zones in Pakistan according to their vulnerability to climate change

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Public Service Europe: With major demographic and climate change challenges lying ahead of us, it is now time for Europeans to reconsider what has been put aside for 15 years now – biotechnology – argues industry expert Biotechnology in agriculture is a wide area of scientific research that brings new applications and breeding methods to

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BBC: Large volumes of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – could be locked beneath the ice-covered regions of Antarctica, according to a new study. It says this methane could be released into the atmosphere as ice retreats, contributing to climate warming. The findings indicate that ancient deposits of organic matter may have been converted

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ICIMOD: Four recent studies published in Nature and Science (Bolch et al. 2012; Gardelle et al. 2012; Kääb et al. 2012; Yao et al. 2012) strengthen the evidence for overall mass loss from glaciers in the greater Himalayan region. The studies also indicate: despite the overall loss, no significant mass gains or losses have occurred

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The Nations: The country can immensely benefit from the clean development mechanism (CDM) for climate change mitigation and adaptation, said Minister for Climate Change, Rana Farooq Saeed Khan, as he launched the CDM Guide Book for Pakistan, and inaugurated a CDM cell at the Climate Change Ministry. United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNDIO) representative for

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