Osvaldo Bonino, a technical analyst programmer, was elected Head of the District of Castellanos in 2003. The province of Santa Fe belongs to the region of La Pampa where the land is very flat and mainly used for agriculture and farming. Due to increased rainfall during the last 7 years the La Picasa lagoon spread from 10,000 to 30,000 hectares - washing away many farms, crops and homes.
Posted on 11 April 2006 | 0 comments | Read more
Giuseppe Miranti, a 26-year old beekeeper from Italy, said that because of warmer temperatures, flowers are blooming at unusual times, which makes the bees change their behaviour and reduce their activity. Stronger attacks from parasites also undermine the production of honey.
Posted on 18 December 2005 | 4 comments | Read more
Penina Moce, 43, is married and has five children. The family live in Udu on Kabara Island in Fiji. She was nominated as a WWF climate witness at a village meeting in October 2004.
Posted on 10 December 2005 | 7 comments | Read more
Alan Stewart, 49, runs a sled dog centre in Scotland but his business is facing the threat of increasing temperatures and disappearing snow. This has also resulted in Siberian huskies moulting in the middle of the winter.
Posted on 05 December 2005 | 0 comments | Read more
Georg Sperber, a 72 year-old forester from Germany, explained the dramatic consequences of higher temperatures for spruce trees in the “Steigerwald” forest in Bavaria. Such trees are the backbone of the German forest industry, but they are suffering more and more from attacks of bark beetle populations which are putting their future at risk.
Posted on 01 December 2005 | 0 comments | Read more
Shitanath Sarkar and his large family lead a precarious existence in the Sundarbans delta. "Inch by inch, my single hectare of land gradually disappeared in front of my eyes. I fear one day our whole village will perish under the waters."
Posted on 30 November 2005 | 1 comments | Read more
José Luis Oliveros Zafra, a 46-year old Spanish farmer, lost 100 per cent of his leguminous and cereal crops because of this summers’ devastating droughts. As the weather becomes less predictable, agriculture in Spain becomes more difficult.
Posted on 28 November 2005 | 0 comments | Read more
Tulsi Khara has lived all her 70 years in the world's largest delta, the Sundarbans, where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers meet and flow into the Bay of Bengal.
Posted on 26 November 2005 | 0 comments | Read more
Cassian Garbett, 45, the last permanent resident in one of the five coastguard cottages near Seaford, on the South coast of England, has witnessed rising sea levels and greater frequency of storms. Extreme weather has destroyed sea defences built up by the army during the war.
Posted on 22 November 2005 | 0 comments | Read more
The Abbot of Tengboche Monastery, Ngawang Tenzing Jangpo, is the most revered monk in Khumbu, Nepal. He has lived there for over 30 years and witnessed floods from lakes bursting with glacial meltwater.
Posted on 08 August 2005 | 0 comments | Read more
