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The United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification website provides information, news and resources concerning action to protect the world's drylands from further deterioration and degradation.

The Corner House website makes available a series of thought-provoking reports and presentations, published by themselves and by and other organizations, on climate issues.

News of weather events and climate affairs from around the African continent.

And finally,

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo discusses her work Melting Men, a series of installations that has been adopted as climate change art.

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About the Cyberlibrary

The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is a co-production of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the International Institute for Environment and Development. It is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.

Tiempo Climate Newswatch is a weekly on-line magazine with news, features and comment on global warming, climate change, sea-level rise and development issues. The news stories carried by Newswatch are updated weekly. Comment, features, interviews and other sections of the magazine are updated on a weekly to monthly basis.

The Tiempo Climate Portal is a listing of selected websites covering climate and development and related issues.

The Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary is maintained and edited by Mick Kelly and Sarah Granich. The cartoons are created by Lawrence Moore. The site was developed by Mike Salmon and Mick Kelly.

While every effort is made to ensure that information on this site, and on other sites that are referenced here, is accurate, no liability for loss or damage resulting from use of this information can be accepted.

PALEOMAR Project
PALEOMAR Project

The history of climate and the modern world — selected resources on the web
 


On the Web

Best of the Web: Archaeology
Best of the Web listing of archaeological websites for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Climate History
The goal of the PALEOMAP Project is to illustrate the plate tectonic development of the ocean basins and continents, as well as the changing distribution of land and sea during the past 1100 million years. Site includes climate maps for different geological periods and a climate history animation.

Current Archaeology
The gateway to the world of British archaeology.

Indigenous Weather Knowledge
Provides historical to current seasonal weather calendars of the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Portrays their knowledge of the complexity and diversity of weather and how finely tuned these cultures are to their natural environment.

Lost Cities
Panoramic tours of Peru, Machu Picchu and the Inca Trail. Requires Quicktime VR plug-in.

Science, Civilization and Society
Science, Civilization and Society is series of lectures in electronic format, developed by Matthias Tomczak (Flinders University).

The Ancient Indus Valley
1,020 illustrated pages by the world's leading ancient Indus Valley scholars.

The Discovery of Global Warming
A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change.

Autogenerated: 29 Aug 2010

Bright Ideas

Vietnam biofuel

A prize-winning nation-wide biogas programme takes Vietnam's human and animal waste and turns it into clean, renewable energy, improving smallholders' quality of life

Schools for Intelligent Energy Use

Schools for Intelligent Energy Use builds a bridge between intermediate vocational schools and civil societies to increase involvement in the field of energy saving and renewable energy

Hangers4Life

HANGER 4 LIFE produces a stylish range of ecofriendly, carbon-neutral adjustable garment hangers

Toronto Zoo

Toronto Zoo is deploying green roof technology, solar hot water heating and solar and geothermal energy and plans to use dung from elephants and other large animals in a biogas plant

Tokyo Electric Taxi Project

The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project is trialling battery-switch technology that could provide the optimum solution for electric vehicle fleets

EcoARK

The Far Eastern Group has built the EcoARK, a three-story exhibition hall, using 1.5 million plastic bottles (video)

SmartTrips

SmartTrips visits different Portland neighborhoods every year with activities aimed at reducing drive-alone trips and increasing biking, walking and public transit use.

Zipcar

Zipcar provides flexible car sharing, by the hour or by the day and in many cities

Hydrogen-powered buses

Hydrogen-powered buses are carrying passengers on the streets of Reykjavik, Iceland (video)

Esprimo P7000

The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology

Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions

Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes companies green, one light bulb at a time

VeggieDag

Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for one day of the week

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Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: August 29th 2010