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		<title>Conservation news</title>
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					<title>Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/caught-on-camera-sand-cats-may-have-a-sizable-population-in-qatar/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Aug 2026 14:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Alex Megerle]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Middle East, and Qatar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Cats, Conservation, Deserts, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Mammals, Research, Small Cats, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts across Southwest and Central Asia, northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though there were anecdotal reports of the species in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts across Southwest and Central Asia, northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though there were anecdotal reports of the species in Qatar — some cats photographed, some not — there were no systematic records. So, Nawaz and his collaborators set out an array of cameras and waited. “When I collected the cameras, it was a big surprise,” he told Mongabay on a video call. Between 2022 and 2025, the cameras photographed sand cats (Felis margarita) more than 100 times, all in Qatar’s Al-Ureiq Reserve — a protected area of roughly 55 square kilometers (21 square miles). Though it’s unclear how many individual cats triggered cameras, these images provide solid evidence of the species’ range and information on its habitat preferences, data that was recently published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science. “This is a remarkable kind of a discovery and gives hope for the terrestrial wildlife in the country,” Nawaz said. Photographs captured during this study provide solid evidence of the species’ range and information on its habitat preferences. Image courtesy of Muhammad Ali Nawaz. A resilient desert-dweller Sand cats are perfectly suited for their desert homes. These diminutive felids’ sand-colored fur provides stellar camouflage. Dense fur on their paws insulates against hot sand. Their keen hearing can detect prey underground. They eat small mammals,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/caught-on-camera-sand-cats-may-have-a-sizable-population-in-qatar/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-324908</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Can conservation change how the world sees the Strait of Hormuz? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/can-conservation-change-how-the-world-sees-the-strait-of-hormuz-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/can-conservation-change-how-the-world-sees-the-strait-of-hormuz-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Jul 2026 15:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Iman Ebrahimi]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Iran, Kuwait, Middle East, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Commentary, Conflict, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Estuaries, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Oil Spills, War, Water Pollution, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent months, the Strait of Hormuz has again been described in the language the world knows best: Oil, tankers, naval risk, energy security and war. That is understandable. Around one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments normally move through this narrow passage between Iran and Oman. When Hormuz is threatened, markets react [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In recent months, the Strait of Hormuz has again been described in the language the world knows best: Oil, tankers, naval risk, energy security and war. That is understandable. Around one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments normally move through this narrow passage between Iran and Oman. When Hormuz is threatened, markets react and governments calculate. But this is only one map of the strait. Conservation offers another. The Strait of Hormuz is not only an oil chokepoint. It is an ecological corridor: The narrow mouth through which the Persian Gulf exchanges water with the Gulf of Oman and the wider Indian Ocean, and through which islands, mangroves, seabird colonies, coral reefs, turtle nesting beaches and coastal communities are connected across borders. A pair of flamingos, Marawah Marine Biosphere Reserve, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Image courtesy of Maitha Bughanoom. This way of seeing Hormuz matters now because recent oil-related reports have not pointed to empty water. They have pointed toward real places: Shidvar, an uninhabited Ramsar island in Lavan, Iran, where damage to nearby oil infrastructure can quickly become a threat to a breeding ground for more than 80,000 terns each year; Qeshm and the Hara mangrove forests, the largest mangrove system in the Persian Gulf and also a Ramsar site; Kharg Island, and also small ports, fishing grounds and coastal waters where human life and wildlife are not easily separated. The full biological impact is still unclear but the geography already tells us enough: In the Persian Gulf,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/can-conservation-change-how-the-world-sees-the-strait-of-hormuz-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322992</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jatropha: The biofuel that bombed seeks a path to redemption</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/jatropha-the-biofuel-that-bombed-seeks-a-path-to-redemption/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Apr 2023 19:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Bioenergy, Covering the Commons, and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ghana, Global, and Qatar]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Alternative Energy, Biodiesel, Bioenergy, Biofuels, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Emission Reduction, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Policy, Governance, Land Use Change, Plantations, Politics, Pollution, Research, and Transportation]]>
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							<![CDATA[At the start of the 2000s, the search for a “miracle” biofuel led to a stubby Latin American tree. But jatropha’s boom went bust when high yields and big eco benefits failed to materialize. Now some say it’s set for a return.]]>
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							<![CDATA[At the beginning of the 21st century, Jatropha curcas, an unassuming shrub-like tree native to Central America, was planted across the world. The rush to jatropha was driven by its promise as a sustainable source of biofuel that could be grown on degraded, unfertile lands so as not to displace food crops. But inflated claims of high yields fell flat. Now, after years of research and development, the sole remaining large plantation focused on growing jatropha is in Ghana. And Singapore-based jOil, which owns that plantation, claims the jatropha comeback is on. “All those companies that failed, adopted a plug-and-play model of scouting for the wild varieties of jatropha. But to commercialize it, you need to domesticate it. This is a part of the process that was missed [during the boom],” jOil CEO Vasanth Subramanian told Mongabay in an interview. Having learned from the mistakes of jatropha’s past failures, he says the oily plant could yet play a key role as a liquid biofuel feedstock, reducing transportation carbon emissions at the global level. A new boom could bring additional benefits, with jatropha also a potential source of fertilizers and even bioplastics. But some researchers are skeptical, noting that jatropha has already gone through one hype-and-fizzle cycle. They caution that if the plant is to reach full potential, then it is essential to learn from past mistakes. During the first boom, jatropha plantations were hampered not only by poor yields, but by land grabbing, deforestation, and social problems in countries where&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/jatropha-the-biofuel-that-bombed-seeks-a-path-to-redemption/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-267285</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Hunt for rare fragrance is pushing one of world’s most expensive trees towards extinction: Al Jazeera documentary</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/hunt-for-rare-fragrance-is-pushing-one-of-worlds-most-expensive-trees-towards-extinction-al-jazeera-documentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/hunt-for-rare-fragrance-is-pushing-one-of-worlds-most-expensive-trees-towards-extinction-al-jazeera-documentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Mar 2016 06:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, India, Indonesia, Middle East, Qatar, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Illegal Logging, Illegal Trade, Rainforests, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The demand for a rare, fragrant ingredient is threatening the survival of one of the world’s most expensive trees, a new Al Jazeera documentary has found. Some trees of the Aquilaria and Gyrinops genus &#8212; found in parts of India and southeast Asia &#8212; produce agarwood, a resin-soaked, scented bark. Oil from this fragrant agarwood is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The demand for a rare, fragrant ingredient is threatening the survival of one of the world’s most expensive trees, a new Al Jazeera documentary has found. Some trees of the Aquilaria and Gyrinops genus &#8212; found in parts of India and southeast Asia &#8212; produce agarwood, a resin-soaked, scented bark. Oil from this fragrant agarwood is frequently added to perfumes, incense products, and medicines, and is an integral part of many cultures. Agarwood (also called oud) is especially popular in the Arab countries and Japan. But agarwood’s attractiveness has had some devastating consequences, the documentary Scent from Heaven reveals. Fewer than two percent of Aquilaria or Gyrinops trees actually produce agarwood, according to the documentary. Moreover, it is extremely difficult to see and predict if a tree has produced agarwood or not. So loggers end up cutting Aquilaria and Gyrinops trees indiscriminately. Consequently, agarwood-producing trees are becoming incredibly rare and threatened in the wild. In fact, agarwood-producing species have been put on the list of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), and it is now illegal to cut or harvest agarwood-producing species in India and most southeast Asian countries. Aquilaria tree showing darker agarwood. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. This increased rarity of the trees has driven up agarwood prices, the documentary says. High quality agarwood, for example, can cost more than $30,000 per kilogram (~2.2 pounds), almost as much as gold. Despite the skyrocketing prices, the demand for agarwood is still very high, the documentary&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/03/hunt-for-rare-fragrance-is-pushing-one-of-worlds-most-expensive-trees-towards-extinction-al-jazeera-documentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-182600</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Click to like this: Is Instagram a hub for illegal ape deals?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/12/click-to-like-this-is-instagram-a-hub-for-illegal-ape-deals/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/12/click-to-like-this-is-instagram-a-hub-for-illegal-ape-deals/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Dec 2015 17:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Christopher Haslett]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Great Apes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Dubai, Egypt, Kenya, Kuwait, Middle East, Persian Gulf, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Apes, Conservation, Crime, Environment, Great Apes, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[On September 9, I arrived back in Mombasa, Kenya, after an investigative mission to Dubai and Egypt for the independent conservationist Karl Ammann. No region of the world makes it easy for foreigners to document trade in endangered animals, but the Middle East is especially hard to work in. Karl’s writings on his previous missions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On September 9, I arrived back in Mombasa, Kenya, after an investigative mission to Dubai and Egypt for the independent conservationist Karl Ammann. No region of the world makes it easy for foreigners to document trade in endangered animals, but the Middle East is especially hard to work in. Karl’s writings on his previous missions there are as informative for the stories of stonewalling bureaucrats and run-ins with threatening animal breeders and police as they are for the facts gathered. As tough as the trip was, we did make some interesting finds. One is the possible existence of a super-smuggler of endangered chimpanzees and orangutans who remains completely unknown to the public, though not necessarily to law enforcers. We now know his real name, but on my return in September we had only a nickname for him, the first half of which — Gorge — I use here, and the second half of which is the name of a country home to wild chimpanzees. Gorge would still be unknown to us if an Egyptian conservation friend hadn’t mentioned him to me during our trip, at the end of August. She knew almost nothing about this man, but he was a foreigner and was stirring resentment among Egypt’s well established exotic animal sellers, many of whom keep their breeding facilities in a village near the Giza pyramids. An elder of one of those families had called our friend repeatedly to complain about this Gorge. Shady dealers complaining about another shady dealer.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/12/click-to-like-this-is-instagram-a-hub-for-illegal-ape-deals/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-167832</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists: stop treating population growth as a &#8216;given&#8217; and empower women</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientists-stop-treating-population-growth-as-a-given-and-empower-women/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Feb 2013 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Niger, Qatar, and Zimbabwe]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Consumption, Environment, Farming, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Health, Overconsumption, Overpopulation, and Population]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, water scarcity, and land issues: almost all of the world&#8217;s environmental problems are underpinned by too many people inhabiting a finite planet. A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B warns that overpopulation&#8212;combined with over-consumption&#8212;is threatening to push the entire globe into &#8220;a collapse of global [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, water scarcity, and land issues: almost all of the world&#8217;s environmental problems are underpinned by too many people inhabiting a finite planet. A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B warns that overpopulation&#8212;combined with over-consumption&#8212;is threatening to push the entire globe into &#8220;a collapse of global civilization.&#8221; But cultural changes, especially more empowerment of women and access to contraceptives, may hold the key to reducing population growth and eventual sustainability. &#8220;Today, for the first time, humanity&#8217;s global civilization&#8212;the worldwide, increasingly interconnected, highly technological society in which we all are to one degree or another, embedded&#8212;is threatened with collapse by an array of environmental problems,&#8221; Paul and Anne Ehrlich, biologists with Stanford University, write in the paper. The Erhlichs are known for decades of work on overpopulation and environmental issues, including co-authoring several books. Children selling mangoes in Madagascar. According to the CIA, Madagascar is 21st in the world for population growth with a growth rate of 2.68 percent. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Currently, over 7 billion people live on Earth, that&#8217;s 5 billion more than lived here just a hundred years ago. In addition, demographers predict another 2.5 billion people by 2050, pushing the population to well-over 9 billion. But can the Earth&#8217;s natural resources&#8212;already stretched well-beyond sustainability&#8212;provide food, water, and other resources for an additional 2.5 billion? &#8220;Virtually all analyses simply treat the need to feed an additional 2.5 billion people by 2050 as a given,&#8221; notes Paul Ehrilich&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/02/scientists-stop-treating-population-growth-as-a-given-and-empower-women/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29508</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack of ambition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/climate-summit-in-doha-characterized-by-lack-of-ambition/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Dec 2012 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Analysis Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Canada, China, Europe, India, New Zealand, Philippines, Qatar, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Science, Disasters, Environment, Environmental Policy, Extreme Weather, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Mitigation, Politics, Redd, and Storms]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal-powered Castle Gate Power Plant in Ohio. Photo by: David Jolley. Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal-powered Castle Gate Power Plant in Ohio. Photo by: David Jolley. Ahead of the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar a variety of reports warned that the world was running out of time to avoid dangerous climate change, and that there was a widening gap between what nations have pledged to do and what the science demanded. A landmark report by the World Bank painted an almost apocalyptic picture of a world in which global temperatures have risen 4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, including unprecedented heatwaves and droughts, rising sea levels, global agriculture crises, and a stunning loss of species. In addition, scientific studies released near the two week conference found that sea levels were rising 60 percent faster than predicted, forests around the world were imperiled by increasing drought, marine snails were dissolving in the Southern Ocean due to ocean acidification, and ice melt in Greenland and Antarctica was on the rise. The meeting kicked off after the Arctic sea ice hit its lowest extent yet recorded and just over a month since Hurricane Sandy devastated a number of Caribbean Islands before striking the U.S., flooding New York City and the New Jersey coast. Despite such devastation, rising physical evidence worldwide, and increasing warnings (from the UN, the World Meteorological Organization, the International Energy Agency, as well as the World Bank), the meeting in Doha was largely characterized by finger-pointing, specious grandstanding, pettifogging, and a total lack of ambition. In truth, there&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/climate-summit-in-doha-characterized-by-lack-of-ambition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wealthy nations&#8217; fossil fuel subsidies dwarf climate financing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/wealthy-nations-fossil-fuel-subsidies-dwarf-climate-financing/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Dec 2012 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Coal-powered Castle Gate Power Plant in Ohio. Photo by: David Jolley. A new analysis finds that 21 wealthy countries spent five-times more on subsidizing fossil fuels in 2011 than they have on providing funds for poor nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The analysis, by Oil Change [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal-powered Castle Gate Power Plant in Ohio. Photo by: David Jolley. A new analysis finds that 21 wealthy countries spent five-times more on subsidizing fossil fuels in 2011 than they have on providing funds for poor nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. The analysis, by Oil Change International, comes in the midst of the current UN Climate Summit held in Doha, Qatar; progress at the talks has been stymied due to the gulf between poor and rich nations, including on the issue of climate financing. &#8220;What this analysis shows is that governments gathered in Doha to supposedly fight climate change need to put their money where their mouths are,&#8221; said Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director of Oil Change International. &#8220;It should be plainly obvious that you can&#8217;t solve a problem when you’re spending vastly more to continue creating it than you are to fix it.&#8221; According to the analysis 21 wealthy countries&#8212;including the U.S., Australia, Canada, Japan, and the UK&#8212;spent $58.7 billion on subsidizing fossil fuels, while they pledged $11.2 billion in &#8220;fast start&#8221; funding for poor countries to combat climate change. Rich nations have pledged to boost such funding to $100 billion a year by 2020, but have not outlined how they would pay for it&#8212;another contention at Doha this week. The country with the highest financial support for fossil fuel subsidies was the U.S., which spent $13.1 billion on them in 2011, according to the analysis. In contrast, it put only&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/wealthy-nations-fossil-fuel-subsidies-dwarf-climate-financing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29921</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Hopes pinned on Obama again as Doha Climate Summit opens</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/hopes-pinned-on-obama-again-as-doha-climate-summit-opens/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Nov 2012 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy storm surge on the New Jersey shore. The massive tropical storm, the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, renewed discussion of climate change in the U.S. media and politics. Photo by: Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/U.S. Air Force/New Jersey National Guard. A number of observers have expressed hope that the Obama Administration, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hurricane Sandy storm surge on the New Jersey shore. The massive tropical storm, the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, renewed discussion of climate change in the U.S. media and politics. Photo by: Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen/U.S. Air Force/New Jersey National Guard. A number of observers have expressed hope that the Obama Administration, fresh from a re-election victory in the U.S., will take a more active and ambitious role at this year&#8217;s UN Climate Summit, held in Doha, Qatar. The summit opens amid fresh&#8212;and increasingly dire&#8212;warnings over climate change from the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, and the UN itself. &#8220;[Obama] missed the chance to lead the world at Copenhagen but can now commit the rich world to a generous agreement,&#8221; journalist John Vidal writes at the Guardian, adding that &#8220;Britain, who will send two ministers to Doha, can lead Europe. A new Chinese administration can be flexible.&#8221; Although climate change was only rarely mentioned in the recent U.S. presidential campaign, the recent devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy has renewed discussion in the U.S. media after years of absence. President Obama, himself, mentioned climate change as a priority in his victory speech following his re-election in early November and at his first press conference he called for a national &#8220;conversation&#8221; on the issue, but noted that economic recovery came first before climate action. &#8220;I think there will be expectations from countries to hear a new voice from the United States,&#8221; Jennifer Morgan, director of the climate and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/hopes-pinned-on-obama-again-as-doha-climate-summit-opens/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29994</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As Doha Climate Summit kicks off, more ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions needed</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/as-doha-climate-summit-kicks-off-more-ambitious-cuts-to-greenhouse-gas-emissions-needed/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Nov 2012 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bangui Windfarm in the Philippines. Photo by: John Ryan Cordova. As the 18th meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicks off this morning in oil and gas rich Qatar, the world body warns that much more ambitious greenhouse gas cuts are needed to keep catastrophic climate change at bay. A new [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bangui Windfarm in the Philippines. Photo by: John Ryan Cordova. As the 18th meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicks off this morning in oil and gas rich Qatar, the world body warns that much more ambitious greenhouse gas cuts are needed to keep catastrophic climate change at bay. A new report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation finds that even if all current emissions pledges are kept, the world will still spew 8 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent above what is needed by 2020, putting the globe on a fast-track to dangerous climate change. &#8220;The sobering fact remains that a transition to a low-carbon, inclusive green economy is happening far too slowly and the opportunity for meeting the 44 [gigatonnes] target is narrowing annually,&#8221; UNEP&#8217;s Executive Director, Achim Steiner, said in a statement. Scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions need to peak at 44 gigatonnes in 2020, before falling rapidly. However, the current trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions means the world will miss that target by 8 billion tonnes at best and 14 billion tonnes at worst. The gap between what has been pledged and what is required is only growing as greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar year-after-year: last year, the UNEP estimated this gap at 6-11 gigatonnes. &#8220;On current levels of ambition, we are heading for warming of 4 degrees Celsius this century&#8212;a prospect that the World Bank this week described as &#8216;devastating.&#8217; In the face of such&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/as-doha-climate-summit-kicks-off-more-ambitious-cuts-to-greenhouse-gas-emissions-needed/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29997</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs</title>
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					<pubDate>23 Nov 2010 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Ascension Island, Asia, Belarus, Bolivia, Chad, Colombia, Cyprus, Finland, Iraq, Kuwait, Latin America, Myanmar, Niger, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South America, Sudan, Ukraine, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master&#8217;s Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature. Over the past decade, which was the warmest on record, 75 nations have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master&#8217;s Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature. Over the past decade, which was the warmest on record, 75 nations have seen record highs, whereas 15 have seen record lows. Nations hitting record highs this year are the Ascension Islands, the Solomon Islands, Finland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Zambia, Cyprus, Myanmar, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, and most recently Bolivia. If Palestine were nation, the year&#8217;s total would be twenty, since it hit an all-time high of 51.4°C (124.5°F). This year is looking to be among the warmest yet recorded since data keeping began in the lat 19th Century. While the first half of the year was unusually warm worldwide, an expected La Nina phenomenon has recently brought cooler-than-average temperatures to much of the Northern Hemisphere. Climate experts overwhelmingly conclude that the world is warming due to extensive greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Related articles Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records (08/09/2010) The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all equaled&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/record-number-of-nations-hit-all-time-temperature-highs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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