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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Eco-friendly shade-grown coffee buffers farmers against climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Shade-grown coffee plantations will be more resistant to climate change than conventional plantations, report researchers writing in the journal <i>Bioscience</i>.  Shade grown coffee is already lauded for its environmental benefits including supporting high levels of biodiversity and requiring less fertilizers and pesticides.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Adaptation to climate change will be difficult for Madagascar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Madagascar's high levels of endemism coupled with its extensive loss and degradation of ecosystems leave its species particularly vulnerable to climate change.  A new paper evaluates these risks and sets forth conservation priorities to best maintain the ecological resilience of the island nation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0729-madagascar.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moving species may be only way to save them from climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Desperate times call for desperate measures, according to a new paper in Science.  conservation scientists from the US, the UK, and Australia are calling for the consideration of a highly controversial conservation technique: assisted migration.  According to the policy piece, species would be relocated to sites "where they do not currently occur or have not been known to occur in recent history".]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-hance_assisted_migration.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists target safe-climate future]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Friends of the Earth, Australia, working in conjunction with many of the world's foremost climate scientists recently published a report which should have quickly pervaded into mainstream media. It is a detailed, <a target=_blank href=http://www.climatecodered.net/>100-plus page manifesto</a> imploring immediate, radical action beyond not only the proposed climate change responses by the IPCC, mainstream environmental agencies, and world governments but outside the procedures and proceedings of our national and international authorities.  Coverage of the ground-breaking report, however, remains mostly in the realm of climate sites and blogs, absent not only from major sources such as Reuters and Associated Press, but even from major conservation and environmental new sites.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Small Amazon farmers especially vulnerable to climate change]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Communicating the impact of climate change to small farmers in the Amazon will be key in helping them adapt to higher temperatures, more frequent and intense drought, and greater incidence of forest fires forecast for the region, according to a paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0220-brondizio_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Food prices to rise due to energy demand, economic trends]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Income growth, climate change, high energy prices, globalization, and urbanization are converging to drive food prices higher, threatening livelihoods and nutrition of poor people in developing countries, says a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1203-ifpri.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate risks to global agriculture are underestimated]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Vulnerability of global agricultural to climate change may be underestimated by experts, warns a trio of papers published in week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).  The research says that "progressive changes predicted to stem from 1- to 5-degree C temperature rises in coming decades fail to account for seasonal extremes of heat, drought or rain, multiplier effects of spreading diseases or weeds, and other ecological upsets," according to a statement from Columbia University's Earth Institute.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1203-agriculture.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Societies must adapt to global warming, mitigation alone is not the answer]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mankind must prepare for global warming by building resilient societies and fostering sustainable development, says a team scientists writing in the current issue of the journal Nature.  The researchers say climate change is inevitable and policymakers should be plan adaptation strategies to minimize the negative impacts of future environmental stresses on society.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0207-asu.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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