Pollution exposure during pregnancy reduces the IQ of children, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.
The study was conducted by the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health and National Institute for Health of United States. At five years 249 children were studied from the City of new york. The results showed that polycyclic [...]

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Germán Poveda,  scientist, member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that expanding the agricultural frontier and the proliferation of illicit crops have been devastated nearly fifty per cent of the forests in several regions of the country, which is more dangerous on the mountains.
“The problem of deforestation is so severe that the tropical [...]

Climate change kills 300,000 people annually and represents an economic cost of 125,000 million dollars (90,000 million euros), according to a report of the Global Humanitarian Forum headed by Kofi Annan presented in London.
The publication of this study, which is backed by several institutes and international agencies, is part of a strategy that seeks to [...]

Replacing traditional stoves in Africa and Asia with low-soot varieties would buy time in the fight against climate change. But the acceptability of such new stoves to the rural poor is an obstacle.
Black carbon has newly emerged as the second biggest contributor to climate change. It is responsible for an estimated 18 per cent of [...]

Water management programmes across the developing world are based on the mistaken belief that trees increase the available water in an area.
Forests tend to diminish water supplies because they lose more water through evaporation than other vegetation, say the researchers.
In wet climates, this is because of the ‘clothesline’ effect: just as wet clothes hanging on [...]

Preparing for cyclones can save lives, but to save livelihoods nations must also help people adapt to cyclones’ impacts.
This is particularly true for countries affected by tropical cyclones. While climate change does not necessarily lead to more cyclones forming, the evidence is very strong now that the rising temperatures of the sea surface will [...]

A remote Chinese island is installing a power station that will harness the wind, sun and waves to produce energy and fresh water.
Situated on Dangan Island in the South China Sea, the station should provide 80 per cent of the energy requirements of its 300 inhabitants. A desalination facility will provide 10,000 tons of water [...]

Five developing countries have received US$18 million in funding to plan how to implement a proposed scheme to reward countries that protect forests and reduce deforestation.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania and Vietnam will share the funds, which will enable them to prepare national action plans to take part in the [...]

This report, prepared by the World Water Assessment Programme under UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), assesses global freshwater resources including what drives the pressures facing them, how water is used, climate change’s future effects on water supplies and options for improving water management for sustainable development.
The authors highlight the increasing demand for water, [...]