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Green Gendering Women Leaders Combat Climate Change
A new study in the journal Social Science Research ob- serves that, “Controlling for other factors, in nations where women’s status is higher, CO2
emissions are lower.” Chris-
tina Ergas and Richard York, sociologists at the University of Oregon–Eugene, found that the nations in which women have higher political status—based on how long they’ve had the right to vote and representation in parliament and ministerial governments—also have more ecologically
sound outcomes than those that do not. Such outcomes included ratifying a great- er number of environmental treaties, more scientific knowledge of climate change, a perception of environmental risks as more threatening and less optimism about the potential to solve problems by relying solely on technology.
Source:
Grist.org
Developing Problem The Case to Save Swampland
An out-of-the-way quagmire or boggy boondock off a lonely road might seem like just so much wasteland rather than something to be concerned about when it’s paved over for a new strip mall or big-box store. But citizens are realizing that these plots where land meets water provide a vital and valuable ecological function.
In addition to nurturing essential biodiversity, wetlands purify water, produce fish, store carbon dioxide that would otherwise increase global warming and protect shorelines from floods, storm surges and erosion. “When we lose wetlands, we’re losing something we won’t recover for years,” remarks Dr. Moreno-Mateos, a wet- land ecologist at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, at Stanford University. “When people develop that huge shopping mall, it will take centuries to restore the func- tions we had before.” After-the-fact restoration efforts yield far more limited benefits.
Source:
plosBiology.org
Let’s Eat National Food Day
is October 24
Sponsored by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Day provides a national focus for healthy food-related initiatives across the country. Get involved at
FoodDay.org.
Tech Trash Africa’s E-Waste Is Skyrocketing
The collective economies of Africa are set on a course to produce more electronic e-waste than Europe by 2017, according to Katharina Kummer Peiry, executive secretary of the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes. At a recent Pan-African Forum on e-waste in Nairobi, Kenya, she attributed the exponential increase to population growth and the increased availabil- ity of mobile phones, computers and accessories. More recycling could be advanced, she says, by the fact that significant amounts of valuable metals such as gold, silver, palladium and copper can be salvaged from electron- ic devices at less cost than smelting them from virgin ores.
Source:
TerraDaily.com
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