A new paper produced by the International Institute for Environment and Development, titled Browsing on fences. Pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to climate change, addresses the rights to land of pastoral groups while accounting for changes brought about by climate change. It brings together the input from over 120 participants from a web-based forum [...]

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The Conservative government is planning a quiet release for a major Health Canada report that warns of the harmful impact of climate change on the health of Canadians, particularly the young, elderly and aboriginals.
Those involved with the report were informed in a July 3 conference call that the government is preparing a “low-profile release” on [...]

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With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them.
“When I first brought up this idea some 10 years ago in conservation meetings, most people were horrified,” said Camille Parmesan, a biology professor at the University of Texas. “But now, as [...]

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Changing weather patterns in Uganda may lead to the extinction of the east African country’s key export, coffee, in coming decades, a report by British charity Oxfam states.
Uganda is Africa’s second biggest coffee producer after Ethiopia and has become a major player in robusta coffee production since political unrest in the Ivory Coast slashed that [...]

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The prolonged drought in Australia’s Murray-Darling river basin is worsening and the country’s food-producing region may forever be changed by accelerating climate warming, Australian government officials announced.
Despite good autumn rains, June inflows into the river basin were the lowest in more than a century on record and climate experts are predicting a 60-70 percent chance [...]

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Scientists say the jury is still out on whether rising sea temperatures will cause more hurricanes to hit U.S. coastlines. Yet some insurance companies are boosting premiums based on assumptions that they will. Others are withdrawing from coastal communities altogether.
Last year, Leanne Lord of Marion, Massachusetts, decided to put her house up for sale after [...]

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Bangladesh has proposed the creation a fund to fight climate change in densely populated South Asia, which experts say is vulnerable to rising seas, melting glaciers and greater extremes of droughts and floods.
Regional experts on climate change began two days of talks in Dhaka on July 1, ahead of a meeting of environment ministers from [...]

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Global warming could deal destructive blows to Russia’s defence infrastructure over the next 22 years, a top official recently told Moscow.
Defence infrastructure, including key airfields, oil storage facilities and strategic oil reservoirs, face the risk of destruction from melting permafrost in Russia’s far north by 2030, Russia’s First Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations, Mr Ruslan [...]

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