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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.
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The DINAS-COAST project
Anne de la Vega-Leinert summarizes an integrated
modelling project intended to improve understanding of the impacts of
sea-level rise. 
Published Issue 47, March 2003.
OneCoast
Robert Kay and Andrew Crow describe the
excitement of launching a new Type II initiative at the World Summit
on Sustainable Development.
Published Issue 46, December 2002.
CDM projects in
Africa
Anders Arvidson outlines the methodology used in
assessing the viability of and potential for CDM projects in Africa.
Published Issue 44/45, September 2002.
Natural disasters in
Honduras
Manuel Winograd reports on a project on vulnerability and
risk assessment of natural disasters in Honduras.
Published Issue 43, March 2002.
Scientific education
in the Pacific
Than Aung describes an oceanographic educational project
which has recently been initiated for the Pacific region.
Published Issue 40/41, September 2001.
The SURVAS project
Anne de la Vega-Leinert and Robert Nicholls
discuss the impacts of accelerated sea-level rise and adaptive
options.
Published Issue 36/37, September 2000.
Preparing for COP-6
Joyeeta Gupta and Angela Churie Kallhauge compare
two capacity building initiatives, for Africa and for Latin America
and the Caribbean.
Published Issue 36/37, September 2000.
Climate change in the
South Pacific
Roger Jones presents an overview of the results of two
recent projects on climate change and sea-level rise in the South
Pacific.
Published Issue 35, March 2000.
Sea level and education
in the Pacific
Than Aung of the National Tidal Facility describes the
current work of the South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring
Project, discussing recent trends and the availability of relevant
educational materials.
Published Issue 34, December 1999.
Sea level observing
systems
Philip Woodworth and Janice Trotte describe major
programmes and associated activities in the monitoring, collection and
analysis of sea level data.
Published Issue 30, December 1998.
The SARCS integrated
study
Louis Lebel describes an integrated study organized by
the Southeast Asian Regional Committee for START (Global Change System
for Analysis Research and Training).
Published Issue 27, March 1998.
First six years of GCTE
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) has
released a report on the major findings of the first six years of its
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) Core Project.
Published Issue 27, March 1998.
Cogeneration in Southeast Asia
The aim of the COGEN Programme is to accelerate the
implementation of proven technologies generating heat and/or power
from wood and agro-industrial residues.
Published Issue 20, March 1996.
Climate change in Central
America
Anne Hambleton reports on progress in combating the
climate threat in the Central American region.
Published Issue 20, March 1996.
Usable science
Mickey Glantz describes a series of workshops intended to
advance the application of science for the benefit of society.
Published Issue 16, June 1995.
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