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Climate: Poor nations most at risk from plant lossParis (AFP) March 24, 2010 Global warming could reduce the range of plant biodiversity by more than nine percent by century's end, and poor countries least to blame for the problem will be worst hit, a study published on Wednesday says. German biologists used the UN climate panel's computer models for possible temperature rise, and crunched through data on "capacity for species richness," or CSR, meaning the likely count of plant species per area. In 13 out of 18 scenarios, global CSR "declined significantly" by 2100, by ... read more |
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Dakar (AFP) March 22, 2010More than 155 million people, or 39 percent of the population in West and Central Africa, do not have access to potable water, the UN's children's agency UNICEF said Monday on World Water Day. This region has the lowest coverage of potable water in the world, housing 18 percent of the world's population with no access to drinking water. "Five years to the 2015 deadline for the achievemen ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 23, 2010As part of an international consortium, CSIRO scientists have played an important role in uncovering groundbreaking new information about Fusarium - a fungus capable of devastating cereal crops. The consortium showed that a disease-causing Fusarium can transfer part of its DNA to a normally benign Fusarium, turning it into a virulent pathogen. "Fusarium fungi are among the most destructive ... more 
Doha (AFP) March 19, 2010A catastrophic fall in wild sturgeon numbers even as more and more of its lucrative caviar is farmed has stoked a bitter row over the best means of conservation - managed catch or outright ban. No one disputes the sturgeon is in big trouble. In a report issued on the sidelines of a UN wildlife conference in the Qatari capital Doha, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warn ... more |
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West African farmers call for help as drought hitsNiamey (AFP) March 22, 2010 West African farmers appealed Monday for help as drought and famine menaced people and livestock, with malnutrition already affecting nearly a third of the population. "Communities of farmers and pastoralists are already severely affected... with the acute malnutrition rate estimated at 29.9 percent, which is double the emergency level of 15 percent," warned Billital Maroobe, a coalition of farmers in an open letter to leaders of countries of the Sahel, a band of arid territory south of the Sahara. ... read more |
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