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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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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.
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The natural world — selected resources on the web
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On the Web
AfriCam
Live pictures from waterholes and mobile cameras in South African nature reserves.
ARKive
Information, photos and video of life on Earth.
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global alliance of conservation organizations working together for the world's birds and people. The site contains data on endangered bird species as well as briefing documents, such as the annual State of the World's Birds, and campaign information.
Climate Kaleidoscope and the Rain Forest
Site covers scientific study of the link between climate and the world's rainforests
Cloud Forest Alive
Weekly nature lessons, photos and information about the cloud forests of Central America and the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.
Earth from Above
Yann Arthus-Bertrand photographs changing landscapes from a small aeroplane.
Exploratorium
The Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, United States, provides a wealth of on-line educational material concerning science, art and human perception.
ExploreZone
Extensive collection of material concerning meteorological, geological, hydrological and space science: news, features, gtraphics and videos, book reviews and links to other sites.
Frog Page
Pictures, animations, sound effects and links to other frog sites.
Global Amphibian Assessment
The Global Amphibian Assessment is the first comprehensive survey of the conservation status of the world's 5,743 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders and caecilians.
Great Barrier Reef
Introduction to the Great Barrier Reef and links to other sites.
Kew Gardens
The mission of the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, London, United Kingdom) is to enable better management of the Earth's environment by increasing knowledge and understanding of the plant and fungal kingdoms. The site contains a tour of the gardens, including views of key features, information about the Millennium Seed Bank project and more.
Missouri Skies
Missouri Skies is dedicated to documenting the ever-changing skies of Missouri.
National Zoo, Washington DC
The site of the National Zoological Museum of the Smithsonian Institution contains a wealth of material, including exhibits such as the Think Tank, live webcam views of orang utans and other animals, and much more.
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum site contains a series of electronic exhibits ranging from 3D surround videos of the museum's Life and Earth Galleries through dinosaur data files to a presentation on the virtual Endeavour experiment.
Nature Museum, Chicago
The Nature Museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences provides a virtual exihibit based on the museum's dioramas as well as other educational material and information about the museum itself.
Osprey Project
The Osprey Project, managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Widlife Trust with Anglia Water, is introducing the osprey to a site in England. Site includes reports on satellite tracking which is being used to monitor the birds' migration routes.
Panda Cam
Live webcam coverage of Shi Shi, Bai Yun and baby Hua Mei at the Giant Panda Research Station in San Diego Zoo.
Sea World/Busch Gardens
Sea World and Busch Gardens present animal news, information and educational material and the fascinating live Penguin (or Puffin) Cam.
Volcano World
The Web's 'premier source' for volcano information, including listings of Current events, Current Events and webcam images.
WhaleTimes Sea Bed
WhaleTimes takes you on an adventure in the ocean. Find out how your favourite animals survive in the sea.
Autogenerated: 29 Aug 2010
Bright Ideas
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 builds a bridge between intermediate vocational schools and civil societies to increase involvement in the field of energy saving and renewable energy
HANGER 4 LIFE produces a stylish range of ecofriendly, carbon-neutral adjustable garment hangers
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
The Tokyo Electric Taxi Project is trialling battery-switch technology that could provide the optimum solution for electric vehicle fleets
The Far Eastern Group has built the EcoARK, a three-story exhibition hall, using 1.5 million plastic bottles (video)
SmartTrips visits different Portland neighborhoods every year with activities aimed at reducing drive-alone trips and increasing biking, walking and public transit use.
Zipcar provides flexible car sharing, by the hour or by the day and in many cities
Hydrogen-powered buses are carrying passengers on the streets of Reykjavik, Iceland (video)
The Esprimo P7000 Series of desktop computers from Fujitsu supports 0-Watt technology
Progressive Lighting and Energy Solutions makes companies green, one light bulb at a time
Ghent, Belgium, has declared Thursday a Veggie Day, promoting a meat-free, climate-friendly diet for one day of the week
Tiempo Climate Newswatch
Updated: August 29th 2010