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Oysters, reefs, and swamps protect billions' worth of real estate for free
2013-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: Among the hundreds of recommendations listed in Mayor Michael Bloomberg`s $20 billion plan to protect New York from climate change is a call to stock up on oysters. Not the kind you`d want to knock back with a nice pilsner on a Friday afternoon: The idea is to build large underwater oyster reefs around the harbor that could prevent coastal erosion and absorb storm surges. "Soft" infrastructure like this--reefs, wetlands, dunes, and other "natural" systems--is gaining in popularity over "hard" levees...
The Dutch prize their pedal power, but a sea of bikes swamps their capital
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: About 6:30 weekday mornings, throngs of bicycles, with a smattering of motor scooters and pedestrians, pour off the ferries that carry bikers and other passengers free of charge across the IJ (pronounced eye) harbor, clogging the streets and causing traffic jams down behind Amsterdams main train station. In the afternoon its even more, moaned Erwin Schoof, a metalworker in his 20s who lives in the canal-laced center of town and battles the chaos daily to cross to his job. Willem van Heijningen,...
Indonesia uses Aceh peat swamps as learning grounds for forest governance
2013-03-22 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CIFOR: Indonesia plans to use Rawa Tripa in its westernmost province of Aceh, where the country had a recent victory in peatlands protection, as learning grounds to improve forests governance and legal enforcement through license review. Rawa Tripa captured headlines early this year when local environmental NGOs reported a suspected breach of a ban to convert deep peat areas by setting fires in its swamps. The Indonesian task force that coordinates efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest...
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