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Climate change and insect-borne disease: Facts and figures
Priya Shetty explains the links between climate change and insect-borne disease, and outlines priorities for developing country policymakers.
Climate change — adapting is crucial too
Climate change is a reality in developing regions, who say the international community must not neglect better adaptation strategies.
FEATURE | 4 September 2009 | EN
Reducing forest emissions: Facts and figures
Hannah Chalmers gives the low-down on how reducing emissions from deforestation can play a central role in tackling climate change.
Sugarcane ethanol: Brazil's biofuel success
Brazil's successful sugarcane ethanol industry owes much to massive investment in infrastructure and research, reports Carla Almeida.
Brazil faces forecast of heat and dust
New climate change models predict a heavy impact from global warming on Brazil's biodiversity, agriculture and health, reports Helen Mendes.
FEATURE | 8 February 2007 | EN
Hydropower: a greenhouse gas culprit?
Tropical reservoirs might release more greenhouse gas than fossil-fuel power stations — a potential blow to future hydropower projects.
Good news, bad news from parched Amazon
Erik Stokstad reports on an unprecedented experiment that is depriving a patch of the Amazon forest of rainfall to study the effects of extended drought.
FEATURE | 15 April 2005 | EN
Brazil's dilemma: rainforest or export revenue?
Brazil may face a hard choice between economic growth and preserving the Amazon rainforest, according to this article in The Economist.
FEATURE | 19 April 2004 | EN
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
