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Foreign pests hitched their first ride to North America aboard ships carrying early European settlers, and many quickly developed an appetite for the continent's crops and trees. Follow this link: US pest invasions date back to early settlers

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(Reuters) - The musty jaguar pelts on display at a government office in Buenos Aires are a grim reminder of the big cat's precarious existence in Argentina's northern forests. Read the original here: Jaguars cling to survival in Argentina's forests

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Jayapura. With the forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan continually shrinking, Papua's timber fields now face a grave threat, a Greenpeace campaigner for the far-flung eastern province said on Monday. Read more: Papua's Forests Next on the Chopping Block: Greenpeace

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10 October 2011 - Scientific and financial resources are needed to counter the growing risks of droughts that all too frequently lead to famine and poverty, the United Nations said today as a conference opened in the Republic of Korea on desertification. Read the original here: Scientific and financial backing essential to fight droughts and famine - UN...

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The first U.N. meeting to combat desertification to be held in Korea will focus on defining standards to measure progression of land degradation, a step essential to boost international support and funding, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said. Link: U.N. opens desertification forum in Changwon

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The air in the auditorium smelled faintly of burnt herbs. Josefina Lema Aguilar, a Kichwa elder from the mountains of Ecuador, lit a tiny sacred fire to bless last week's conference on "Seeking Balance: Indigenous Knowledge, Western Science and Climate Change." Read more: Indigenous People Sound the Alarm on Climate Change

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Climate sceptics are winning the argument with the public over global warming, the world's most celebrated climate scientist, James Hansen of NASA, said in London yesterday. Read the rest here: Global warning: climate sceptics are winning the battle

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U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres lauded a climate change meeting in Panama as "good progress" this weekend, even as environmental activists warned that the world's only structure for curbing greenhouse gas emissions appears about to crumble. Here is the original post: Nations Heading to Durban Climate Talks Remain Deeply Divided

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For better or worse, uncertainty pervades projections of global warming. Read more from the original source: The Case for Climate-Change Alarmism

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An increased body of evidence shows that climatic variability is adversely affecting Ghana's natural resources such as land, water, forests and vegetation, as well as human capital. Read the rest here: Ghana: Climate Change Threatens Country's Food Security