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Congo forest villages repair damage from charcoal business

2013-08-21 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The Congolese village of Madimba is struggling with the ravages of decades of rampant deforestation and the capital Kinshasa's insatiable appetite for cooking with charcoal. It is not alone. As in many other villages across this huge central African country's Bas-Congo province, residents have to cope with a mix of climatic and environmental changes that threaten their traditional way of life. "With Kinshasa's electricity supply problems, the village of Madimba is one of those places supplying...

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Ecuador Scraps Plan to Block Rain Forest Oil Drilling

2013-08-19 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: The decision by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to abandon a plan to spare the species-rich Yasun­ rain forest in eastern Ecuador from oil development has dashed hopes for what environmentalists had hailed as a historic approach to weaning industrial society from its dependence on fossil fuels. "Ecuador and the world have lost an opportunity to shape a revolutionary initiative," said Alberto Acosta, Ecuador's former minister of energy and mines, and one of the chief architects of the so-called...

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Forest City affiliate to redevelop Nassau Coliseum

2013-08-15 23:03:29| Real Estate - Topix.net

New York officials have chosen an affiliate of Forest City Enterprises to oversee a $229 million renovation of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

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Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

2013-08-13 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The world's species are in worse trouble than widely-assumed, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which reevaluates how scientists estimate extinction rates. The new model takes into account the impact of forest fragmentation on extinction rates for the first time, filling in a gap in past estimates. Much of the world's tropical forests, which house the bulk of the world's species, have been whittled down to fragments: small forest islands that...

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World Bank supports Participatory Sustainable Forest Management in Lao PDR

2013-08-09 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Financial: The Government of Lao PDR and the World Bank signed today a grant agreement of US$ 31.83 million for the Scaling-Up Participatory Sustainable Forest Management (SUPSFM) Project, according to The World Bank Group. The agreement was signed by H.E. Mr. Santiphab Phomvihane, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Finance for the Lao PDR and Mr. Constantine Chikosi, Acting Country Director for the World Bank to Lao PDR. The grant signed today consists of a US$ 19 million International Development Association...

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