‘Climate Change is Killing People in Drylands’
IDN InDepthNews
“Enhancing soils anywhere enhances life everywhere,” says UN’s top official Luc Gnacadja, who is tasked with combating land degradation and drought 

Climate change will impact infectious diseases worldwide
Scientific American
As climatologists weather the IPCC controversy, another storm is brewing, and this one is filled with not with bloggers but with beasts, bugs and bacteria.

EU considers general carbon tax 
Scientific American
The European Commission is planning an EU-wide minimum tax on carbon as part of the EU's green energy agenda - but the UK opposes such a move.

Humans must be to blame for climate change, say scientists
Independent (UK)
Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.

Dealing with climate change demands a more gendered approach
The Financial Express
Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for all -- with this very theme, the women of the world will be observing International Women's Day 2010.

Global climate battle plays out in World Bank
Reuters
The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, 

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
Guardian
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest greenhouse.

Global climate change and biodiversity
The New Nation
Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim, an eminent scientist of Bangladesh and nature lover notes that about 40 per cent of about 44 thousand species of the world are at stake due to climatic and other disasters.

United Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change
Telegraph
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up by the UN to assess the risk to the world of rising global temperatures.

Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature
IPS
Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers.

Kenya to tap Rift Valley's geothermal gold mine
BusinessGreen.com
Long-standing plans to establish Kenya's Rift Valley as one of the world's largest providers of geothermal energy received a major boost last week, 

Africans 'take blame for climate change'
BBC
Many Africans blame themselves for climate change even though fossil fuel emissions there are less than 4% of the global total, a new survey suggests.

Sustainable energy: a challenge nearly as great as global warming
EurekAlert
The goal of the Global Sustainable Bioenergy (GSB) project is to create a global advisory panel for sustainable bioenergy similar to those that exist for subjects such as climate change and biodiversity.

Concerns Over Africa’s Stuttering Carbon Market
Daily Independent
Mixed feelings have welcomed Africa’s fledgling carbon market, which observers believe is stuttering in the face of a massive potential.

World Bank must tackle pressing water issues: report
Reuters
The World Bank needs to pay more attention to the most pressing water-related problems in developing countries, 

Volcanoes helped dinosaurs rule the Earth, say scientists
Guardian
Volcanoes that spewed out lava and noxious gases for more than half a million years paved the way for dinosaurs to rule the Earth by wiping out their competitors, scientists say.

Environmental Refugees and Global Warming
ScienceDaily
Climate change and environmental degradation are likely to trigger increased migration in Sub-Saharan Africa with potentially devastating effects on the hundreds of millions of especially poor people,

Asia pollution circles the globe in stratosphere: study
Independent (UK)
Pollution from Asia's booming economies rises into the stratosphere during the monsoon season then circles the world for years, according to a report out Thursday.

Europe's electricity could be all renewables by 2050
Yahoo News
Europe could meet all its electricity needs from renewable sources by mid-century, according to a report released Monday by services giant PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Backers of Copenhagen climate deal, 2020 plans
AlertNet
The number of nations backing the non-binding Copenhagen Accord for fighting global warming has risen to more than 110 and includes all major greenhouse gas emitters,