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Coursing over a distance of 6,380 kilometers, the mighty Yangtze is the longest river in China and the third longest in the world after the Amazon in South America and the Nile in Africa.

Advanced river flow management vital to facing climate challenge

Improved river flow management will be vital to protecting communities from the worst impacts of climate change and to achieving international goals on poverty reduction, according to a new report issued on the eve of World Water Week.

Posted on 16 August 2009 | 1 comments | Read more

A Closing Window of Opportunity - Global Greenhouse Reality 2008

Science shows that global warming is accelerating faster than previously thought. The window of opportunity to limit the global mean temperature rise well below 2° C compared to preindustrial levels is closing rapidly.

Posted on 25 November 2008 | 3 comments | Read more

Climate Change in Indonesia - Implications for Humans and Nature

Climate change impacts on Indonesia, people and nature

Posted on 28 November 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

What you should know: WWF summary for policy makers (IPCC Working Groups I and II)

This paper is a compilation of findings taken from the full technical reports of the IPCC’s fourth Assessment report, published in 2007.

Posted on 12 November 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Red coral, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Defending Nature Against Climate Change

Adapting Conservation in WWF’s Priority Ecoregions

Posted on 29 June 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

The Mesoamerican Reef – a priority ecoregion for WWF – covers a large territory of water, from the Bay Islands in the north of Honduras to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, including the coasts of Guatemala and Belize. Laughing Bird Caye, Belize.

Saving the world's natural wonders from climate change

From the Amazon to the Himalayas, ten of the world’s greatest natural wonders face destruction if the climate continues to warm at the current rate. Here we show how we are working to defend some of the greatest natural wonders from the impacts of climate change.

Posted on 05 April 2007 | 0 comments | Read more

Peasant farmer sets his plantation alight at the height of the drought and fears for forest fires. Forest fires are increasing, driven by climate change.

Up In Smoke - Latin America and the Caribbean

The threat from climate change to the environment and human development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Working Group on Climate Change and Development

Posted on 29 August 2006 | 0 comments | Read more

Climate Witness in Fiji front cover of publication

Climate Witness Brochure Fiji

Through its Climate Witness Programme, here in Kabara Island, Fiji, WWF is helping to collect and publish stories on how climate change has altered coastal communities lives, and helps building resistance against the impacts.

Posted on 20 March 2006 | 0 comments | Read more

Brochure: Implications of a 2 degrees C rise for Canada's natural resources

Canada’s Atlantic fish will be squeezed into ever smaller patches of cool water, endangered Atlantic salmon will be doomed, and key boreal forest species will be stranded as their natural habitats erode, if the globe’s temperature is allowed to rise too far, says WWF.

Posted on 30 November 2005 | 0 comments | Read more

Report: Implications of a 2°C global temperature rise for Canada’s natural resources

Canada is a land of bounty. It is home to 10% of the world’s forests and freshwater resources; agriculture employs 15 million people and marine fisheries alone brings in an annual income of over CAN$2 billion. For a country where agriculture, forestry and fisheries make significant contributions to the national economy, Canada is especially susceptible to climate change.

Posted on 30 November 2005 | 0 comments | Read more

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