News & Press
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DEFRA: UK needs to increase resilience to climate change
Friday, February 3rd 2012
A report released by Defra shows that the UK needs to adapt to the threats posed by climate change.
The Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) highlights the top 100 challenges to the UK and its economy and provides evidence of the need to increase resilience. In order to provide a baseline for decisions by government, local authorities and businesses, the research does not take into account any future policies or plans. However, a government report published alo... -
Climate-driven heat peaks may diminish wheat crop yields
Monday, January 30th 2012
According to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change, more intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing.
Current projections based on computer models underestimate the extent to which hotter weather in the future will accelerate this process, the researchers warned.
In some nations, wheat accounts for up to 50 percent of calorie intake and 20 percent of protein nutrition... -
New Report "Flooding is the greatest climate change threat to the UK"
Friday, January 27th 2012
A report published by the environment department has indicated that flooding is the greatest threat to the UK, with up to 3.6 million people at risk by the middle of the century.
The first comprehensive climate change risk assessment for the UK identifies hundreds of ways rising global temperatures will have an impact if no action is taken. They include the financial damage caused by flooding, which would increase to £2bn-£10bn a year by 2080, more d... -
The Biodiversity Crisis and Climate Change
Tuesday, January 24th 2012
The FAO estimates that 40 percent of the world (2.6 billion people) rely on fuelwood or charcoal as their primary source of energy for cooking and heating. Fuelwood consumption has increased 250 percent since 1960. The collection of fuelwood and building material from the rainforest remains an important cause of deforestation by settlers. This ultimately leads to habitat fragmentation and fragmented patches of forest are subject to drying winds that increase the frequency ...
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Deforestation and Climate Change are having a Profound Effect on the Amazon Basin
Friday, January 20th 2012
Deforestation and climate change are shifting the Amazon basin from a carbon sink to a carbon emitter.
The Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazon (LBA) evaluated the connections between climate change, agricultural expansion, logging, and fire risk. The team concluded that there are clear signs of transition to a disturbance-dominated regime in the southern and eastern portions of the Amazon basin.
"Deforestation has moved the net b...
