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Tag Archives: global warming

Alaska/Chukotka walrus and polar bear community exchanges

By Amalie Finlayson | Published: March 9, 2010
In early February, WWF and the US Fish and Wildlife Service partnered to facilitate community-based meetings between village conservation leaders from Chukotka, Russia and Alaskan communities along the Chukchi Sea coast. Although the people who live across the Chukchi Sea from each other are relatively close in miles, our Chukchi partners had to travel around the world to reach the other side and meet their neighbors for the first time. For WWF, this was also an opportunity to highlight the work of the Chukchi Umky Patrol Program we support in Russia, a grassroots effort to minimise negative polar bear human interactions. The Umky program has in addition cultivated efforts to eliminate poaching and manage a relatively new problem: walrus hauling out near villages in huge numbers.
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Breaking records in Earth Hour 2010!

By Climate Team | Published: March 4, 2010
Earth Hour 2010 is set to become the biggest Earth Hour yet, with Kuwait becoming the 88th country to sign up – the same number of countries as participated in 2009. The Kuwait Team for Global Warming is leading the campaign in Kuwait, with help from The Green Initiative.   With four weeks left and momentum [...]
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Rising tide in Malaysia

By Climate Team | Published: March 2, 2010
Several years ago, Pak Mat built his house on the coast in his home town of Kemasek, Malaysia. Originally over 70 feet from the nearest high-tide marker, Pak Mat watched as his house was washed away in 2009 after a strong storm. Each year, the water’s edge moved closer to where my house stood. One night [...]
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Earth Hour reaches new heights and landmarks abound

By Claire Carlton | Published: February 24, 2010
Iconic landmarks around the world will switch off their lights for Earth Hour 2010, joining hundreds of millions of people across every continent committed to resolving the issue of global warming. At 8.30pm on Saturday, March 27 some of the world’s most recognised symbols of hope, peace, human endeavour and natural wonder will plunge into darkness [...]
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WWF sad about Yvo’s de Boer resignation

By Kim Carstensen | Published: February 19, 2010
Kim Carstensen, Leader of the WWF Global Climate Deal Initiative speaks for us about Mr De Boer’s resignation from the UNFCCC negotiation proces and the outcomes of COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009. “Yvo de Boer has put an enormous amount of work and devoted a significant part of his life to changing attitudes towards [...]
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