Increased demands on agriculture mean land use patterns are changing, often resulting in loss of wetlands. Globally, agriculture accounts for about 10% of all human greenhouse emissions--mostly released through methane and oxides of nitrogen. There is a rising population with increasing demand f...
Helping Businesses Compete Mercosur-BIOTECH. The EU supports the development of biotechnologies in mercosur countries with 6million to facilitate and promote technology transfer from the academic to the private sector; establish regional coordination; and define and implement a regional strategy...
Biodiversity simply means diversity of species, ecosystems, and genes. We depend on biodiversity for food, medicines, clothing, fuel and building material, mental and spiritual welfare, and in short for our survival. Biodiversity is declining worldwide due to anthropogenic reasons like intensive f...
Across the country there is wide variation in use and price for water consumption in major urban areas, with residential rates being lowest in the Great Lakes region, according to a Circle of Blue survey.
Six million children in Ethiopia are at risk of acute malnutrition following the failure of rains, the UN children’s agency, Unicef, has warned. More than 60,000 children in two Ethiopian regions require immediate specialist feeding just to survive, Unicef says. The situation is expected to wors...
Scientists have discovered the ancient fossils of sea sponges which could push back the existence of animal life on Earth by 90 million years. The tiny fossils measuring up to one centimetre across lived in ocean reefs off south Australia and were discovered in rocks dated at between 640 and...
Washington, Growing estimates of natural gas resources suggest that supplies of this least carbon-intensive fossil fuel may be abundant, while containing only half as much carbon, according to a new paper released today by the Worldwatch Institute.
Exploring pathways for women’s participation into local development decision processes”, in the framework of the project "Women and Nature between Hermel, Akkar et Nabatieh”, an initiative funded by the Italian Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Italy in Beirut in the framework of ROSS E...
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There has certainly been recognition in recent months and years that energy security...
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Exploring pathways for women’s participation into local development decision processes”, in the framework of the project "Women and Nature between Hermel, Akkar et Nabatieh”, an initiative funded by the Italian Cooperation Office of the Embassy of Italy in Beirut in the framework of ROSS Emergency Program for a total amount of over 350.000 Euro.