Q&A: Sylvia Earle on the planet's blue engine
SciDev.Net talks to Sylvia Earle, scientist, oceanographer, explorer, about her hopes for oceans at the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in 2012.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service
18 December 2011 | EN

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SciDev.Net talks to Sylvia Earle, scientist, oceanographer, explorer, about her hopes for oceans at the Rio+20 conference in Brazil in 2012.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service
18 December 2011 | EN
The cities account for more than three quarters of emissions of CO2, are home to half the world population and will be 'highly visible' at Rio +20.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service
SciDev.Net speaks to UN Environment Programme executive director Achim Steiner at the Eye on Earth Summit (12-15 December) about next year's Rio+20.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service
15 December 2011 | EN
New technologies offer the promise of delivering environmental information to anyone who wants it, anywhere in the world. But we are not quite there yet.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service
14 December 2011 | EN
A network of mountaintop research stations is being built across Asia to study how large bodies of ice respond to increasing temperatures.
Source: Science
13 December 2011 | EN
A project that aims to help communities adapt by providing localised climate data should be ready by next year.
Source: IRIN News
9 November 2011 | EN
Researchers are combining data in new ways to identify who is most vulnerable to climate change and population growth.
Source: Nature Climate Change
11 October 2011 | EN
The InfoClim project, which distributes climate data to local communities, has helped Senegalese farmers adapt to climate change. SciDev.Net investigates.
Climate change will affect the water security of developing countries. Lucinda Mileham explores their priorities as they struggle to cope.
Kenyan meteorologists are joining forces with traditional rainmakers to deliver communities weather forecasts as climate change takes hold.
Source: The Independent
5 March 2010 | EN
Andreas Schild of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development talks to SciDev.Net about glacial retreat.
Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.
Modelling how climate change might affect insect-borne disease is hugely complex — and increasingly controversial, explains Justine Davies.
Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.
4 September 2009 | EN
Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.
The Tibetan plateau is feeling the effects of climate change, with glacial retreat and permafrost degradation among the effects.
Source: Nature
The UN supports forest protection in the next climate agreement, but questions on how to tackle deforestation are still being debated.
Source: Nature
Climate change and overgrazing near Lake Hovsgol in northern Mongolia may cause irreversible damage to the surrounding ecosystem.
Source: Science
New climate change models predict a heavy impact from global warming on Brazil's biodiversity, agriculture and health, reports Helen Mendes.
8 February 2007 | EN
T.V. Padma looks at how and why greenhouse gas emissions from India are on the rise.
18 August 2006 | EN