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CRU Information Sheet no. 6: The Holocene
Earth became much less extensive. The rainfall increases in sub-tropical regions were related to a strengthening of monsoon systems, and it is estimated that the rainfall in sub-tropical ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
They aren’t passive carbon receptacles. In the tropical regions, where most Southern nations are located, forests are dynamic. Millions of indigenous people across the ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
According to estimates, subtropical and tropical regions present the largest potential for such conservation and sequestration activities. Moreover, it is a lot cheaper to undertake such activities in tropical countries (us $0.1 for each tonne of carbon) as against non-tropical countries where the cost could be as high as ...
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Tropical Evergreen Forests
Tropical Evergreen Forests Tropical Forests Tropical Evergreen Forests. The tropical evergreen forests usually occur in areas receiving more than 200 cm of rainfall and having ... Tropical Forests are rosewood, mahagony and ebony. Bamboos and reeds are also common. Tidal or mangrove forests: Tidal forests are found along the edges of deltas of rivers in tropical and sub-tropical regions ...
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Climate models 'underestimating' tropical rainfall - SciDev.Net
Facebook Newsvine Reddit Y! Bookmarks Climate models 'underestimating' tropical rainfall Katherine Nightingale 8 August 2008 | EN | 中æ ... — not just how much the wet regions will get wetter, but how those regions are going to move around." A separate ... for Asian monsoon 12 October 2007 Hotter Earth implicated in tropical rainfall rise 31 August 2007 RELATED TOPICS Climate change impacts ...
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CREA Saving Tropical Ecosystems
CREA Saving Tropical Ecosystems EDUCATION Education has a key supportive role in CREA´s conservation strategy. CREA works ... schools seeking to experience hands-on tropical science as well as share in the lives and customs of the people living in these biologically diverse regions." Laurie Doss, Science Teacher © CREA copyright ...
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Tropical Information: NOAA Watch: NOAA's All-Hazard Monitor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: U.S. Department of Commerce
More information from NOAA on tropical weather... Tropical Cyclone Centers and Forecast Information National Hurricane Center Central Pacific Hurricane Center Outlooks Daily Tropical Weather Outlooks (Atlantic and ... Pacific Ocean east of 160E, Tropical cyclones are also called hurricanes, tropical storms, and tropical depressions, depending upon intensity. In other regions of the world, these types ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Regions/Africa
Content Rainforest Portal Search, Inform, Debate, Act Search Internet News Portal Links Home > Regions > Africa Rainforest Portal: Africa Links (XML/RSS) Categories Cameroon (5) Congo (5) updated Tanzania ... Added: Feb. 11, 2001 | Rate It Landsat NASA Pathfinder Humid Tropical Deforestation Project popular http://www.geog.umd.edu/tropical/ (6 votes) maps global deforestation in the humid tropics, ...
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Rainforest Portal Rainforest Conservation Links: Regions/Asia and Pacific
Rainforest Portal Search, Inform, Debate, Act Search Internet News Portal Links Home > Regions > Asia and Pacific Rainforest Portal: Asia and Pacific Links (XML/RSS) Categories Australia ... understanding and protecting the biodiversity of forest, freshwater, and marine ecosystems in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, through natural resource management and sustainable economic development Added: Nov. ...
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US voucher system to boost tropical disease drugs - SciDev.Net
Advanced Search You are in: Home > News Monday, 18 August 2008 Home Regions China Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa South Asia South-East Asia Sub- ... set to launch a prize system to encourage pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs for tropical diseases. Sixteen tropical diseases, including sleeping sickness, leprosy and malaria are listed as eligible for the ...
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