Year of the Tiger Begins with Big Cats in Serious Trouble Around the World

Climate Crunch | Year of the Tiger Begins with Big Cats in Serious Trouble Around the World
As many Asian countries prepare to celebrate Year of the Tiger beginning February 14, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reports that tigers are in crisis around the world, including here in the United States, where more tigers are kept in captivity than are alive in the wild throughout Asia. As few as 3,200 tigers exist in the wild in Asia where they are threatened by poaching, habitat loss, illegal trafficking and the conversion of forests for infrastructure and plantations.
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UK partners with Indonesia to fight climate change

Climate Crunch | UK partners with Indonesia to fight climate change
The UK has joined forces with the Indonesian government to tackle deforestation and prepare Indonesians for the impacts of climate change, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander announced at Davos today.

The partnership will work to bring down carbon emissions by reversing the high rate of deforestation in the country, boost Indonesia ’s low carbon economy and lift thousands of people out of poverty.
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Grazinglands Reduce Greenhouse Gases

Climate Crunch | Grazinglands Reduce Greenhouse Gases
Rangeland Ecology & Management—A green pasture with grazing animals offers an idyllic image of our natural environment. With much of the current focus on climate change, such a pasture has much more to offer than image. Through effective policy implementation, grazinglands can reduce greenhouse gases through carbon sequestration and emissions reductions offset credits.
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Global Warming Bringing More Oddball Winter Weather

Climate Crunch | Global Warming Bringing More Oddball Winter Weather
Global warming is having a seemingly peculiar effect on winter weather in the northern United States, detailed in a new report from the National Wildlife Federation.

“Oddball winter weather is yet another sign of how uncontrolled carbon pollution amounts to an unchecked experiment on people and nature,” said Dr. Amanda Staudt, climate scientist, National Wildlife Federation. “While global warming means shorter, milder winters on average, some snowbelt areas will see more heavy snowfall events. Disruptions to tourism and recreation economies will become increasingly common – for example to skiing and ice fishing that depend on predictable conditions. Snow removal, wintertime floods, agriculture, and forestry will also become increasingly more difficult to manage.”
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Greater Mekong Tiger Numbers Have Dropped More Than 70 Percent in 10 Years

Climate Crunch | Greater Mekong Tiger Numbers Have Dropped More Than 70 Percent in 10 Years
Tiger numbers have fallen by more than 70 percent in slightly more than a decade in the Greater Mekong, with the region’s five countries containing only 350 tigers, according to a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report released today.

“Tigers on the Brink: Facing up to the Challenge in the Greater Mekong” comes as leaders from tiger range countries prepare to meet for the first Asian Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation in Hua Hin, Thailand. The conference is part of a year-long effort to save wild tigers during the Chinese Year of the Tiger, which begins February 14.
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Climate Change Threatens To Wipe Out One of Worlds Largest Tiger Populations This Century

Climate Crunch | Climate Change Threatens To Wipe Out One of Worlds Largest Tiger Populations This Century
One of the world’s largest tiger populations could disappear by the end of this century as rising sea levels caused by climate change destroy their habitat along the coast of Bangladesh in an area known as the Sundarbans, according to a new World Wildlife Fund-led study published in the journal Climatic Change.
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WWF Camera Trap Yields First-Time Video of Critically Endangered Sumatran Tiger and Cubs

Climate Crunch | WWF Camera Trap Yields First-Time Video of Critically Endangered Sumatran Tiger and Cubs
Camera traps set deep in the Indonesian jungle have captured first-time video footage of a rare female Sumatran tiger and her cubs, giving World Wildlife Fund (WWF) researchers unique insight into the elusive tiger’s behavior.
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New evidence of link between climate change and malaria

Climate Crunch | New evidence of link between climate change and malaria
New research released today shows a direct link between rising temperatures and the spread of malaria.

Four million people living on the slopes of Mount Kenya in the Kenyan Central Highlands are now at risk of malaria, after warmer temperatures pushed the disease into high altitude areas where the population has little or no immunity.
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Tigers, Polar Bears And Blue Fin Tuna Among Most Threatened Species In 2010, Says World Wildlife Fund

Climate Crunch | Tigers, Polar Bears And Blue Fin Tuna Among Most Threatened Species In 2010, Says World Wildlife Fund
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today released its annual list of some of the most threatened species around the world, saying that the long-term survival of many animals is increasingly in doubt due to a host of threats, including climate change, and calling for a step up in efforts to save some of the world’s most threatened animals.

WWF’s list of “10 to Watch in 2010” includes such well-known and beloved species as tigers, polar bears, pandas, and rhinos, as well as lesser-known species such as bluefin tuna and mountain gorillas. WWF scientists say these, and many other species, are at greater risk than ever before because of habitat loss, poaching, and climate change-related threats. This year’s watch list includes five species directly impacted by climate change, as well as the monarch butterfly, the species at the center of an endangered biological phenomenon. Tigers are at the forefront of this year’s list, with the official Year of the Tiger slated to begin in February 2010.
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The Carteret Islands disappearing from Ocean charts but full of hope.

Climate Crunch | The Carteret Islands disappearing  from Ocean charts but full of hope.
Due to climate change, the Carteret Islands in north east Papua New Guinea are being submerged by the sea. As a result, the people that live on these tiny atoll islands have unwillingly found themselves on the front line of climate change and dependent upon the success or failure of the UN’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen. The residents of these islands urgently need practical help and financial support in order to evacuate from their ancestral islands, before they disappear under the sea and their homes cease to exist.
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