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Spanish winemakers look to higher ground
Published July 4, 2009, 10:55 pm, AFP via Yahoo! News
Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat.
Vineyards to move higher?
Published July 4, 2009, 9:12 pm, Straits Times
MADRID - CLIMATE change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat. Spain, which has more hectares (acres) of vineyard than any other country in the world, 'is in the frontline of climate change,' said Mr Juan Francisco Cacho, a wine expert at the University of ...
AM Doha Time
Published July 4, 2009, 2:36 pm, Gulf Times
By Bonnie James The lack of response from Qatar and the rest of the Arab world to a novel proposal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) for establishing camel farms to combat desertification is surprising, an expert has said.
Commission ponders 'burden-sharing' for farm aid
Published July 2, 2009, 11:49 pm, EurActiv
Support to European farmers will not decrease under the revised Common Agricultural policy (CAP) after 2013, said a top official at the Commission's agriculture department, but a redistribution of the "burden-sharing" of aid between the EU and individual member states could be envisaged, he said.
United Nations Environment Programme
Published July 2, 2009, 5:10 am, United Nations Environment Programme
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Manipur dam will not harm Bangladesh, says India
Published July 1, 2009, 11:58 pm, Calcutta News
India's Tipaimukh dam project, coming up in Manipur on the river Barak that flows into Bangladesh, will not harm that country as feared by its politicians and civil society, say officials here.
Manipur dam will not harm Bangladesh, says India
Published July 1, 2009, 10:16 pm, New Kerala
By Sujit Chakraborty, Imphal, July 2 : India's Tipaimukh dam project, coming up in Manipur on the river Barak that flows into Bangladesh, will not harm that country as feared by its politicians and civil society, say officials here.
Gambia: Asset Climate Care Committee Set for Tree Planting
Published July 1, 2009, 8:30 am, AllAfrica.com
In a bid to combat desertification and global warming in The Gambia, the Association of Small Scale Enterprise in Tourism (ASSET) Climate Care Committee is looking forward to plant more seedlings in the coming rainy season.
BGU'S Desert Research Institutes to receive Cleantech 2009 Environmenal Excellence Award
Published June 29, 2009, 12:25 pm, EurekAlert!
( American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research has won the CleanTech 2009 Excellence Award in the category of Outstanding Academic Institution in the Field of Environmental Studies.
Nigeria: Curbing Global Hunger
Published June 29, 2009, 5:28 am, AllAfrica.com
The sweeping scourge of global hunger, affecting one sixth of all humanity and now reaching a historical high, has expectedly elicited the concern of the United Nations Organisation, through its Food and Agriculture Organisation, FAO.
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