Delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in Poland Monday to work on a new global climate-saving pact, finding ways to help poorer regions
| Delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in Poland Monday to work on a new global climate-saving pact, finding ways to help poorer regions ... | |
Extreme rainfall and spreading drought are signalling rapid climate change in Latin America, prompting concern that wrenching changes like migration will worsen social equality. !ADVERTISEMENT! A greater concentration of land ownership, changes in water supplies and an expansion of deserts are the likely consequences as temperatures rise, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says. "There have always been climate changes, but not with the current force," Jan van Wambeke, a FAO land and water officer for Latin American and the Caribbean, said. http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Nov282008/scroll20081128103356.asp?section=scrollingnews | |
