Incidence of flood has been on the increase in Ilorin for sometime; and this exemplifies the problem operating in most urban centres in Nigeria. Increase in runoff production in an urbanized catchment is a function, among other factors of to increase in percentage paved area brought about by deforestation activities and poor environmental attitude of the people. This study examines the relationship between runoff discharge and basin characteristics in Ilorin. Data used were collected directly from the field over a period of one calendar year. Rainfall data were collected in each basin using a standard rainguage of 20cm orifice while basin discharge was collected twice daily (8.00am and 6.30pm) using fabricated staff gauge graduated in centimeter. Basin morphometric attributes were compu...
...This extreme hydro-climate event exemplifies the problem currently operating ...The city has a humid tropical climate, which is characterised by wet and dry sea... be classified into built-up (paved) area, forest covered, farms and fallow area, area covered by gr...
It's to carbon what Fort Knox is to gold," says environmentalist Tzeporah Berman of B.C.-based ForestEthics, who helped step up the coalition's campaign for better protection of the forest at the recent United Nations climate conference in Bali. The coalition wants at least 50 per cent of Canada's boreal forest preserved, saying it is as "critical" as the more famous tropical rain forests. About 10 per cent of Canada's forest is now protected, says the coalition, which is concerned with the way logging, Alberta's massive oilsands projects and even clean energy initiatives, such as hydroelectric projects that drown timberland, are eating away at the forest. Throughout most of the past century, they say Canada's so-called "managed" forest, which is defined as the 236 million hectares a...
North America's boreal forest contains nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, says the report. And Canada has by far the lion's share of the carbon, it says, and a responsibility to ensure it stays locked in trees, soils and peatlands. Canada is unique in the world with its carbon stores and its intact ecosystems," says Jeff Wells, of the Boreal Songbird Initiative, and lead author of the report by groups pushing for inclusion of the boreal in upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen and for the forest's protection. '[Margaret Thatcher]' death shocking
...At the same time, forests will be increasingly vulnerable to pest infestatio...Weather-related disasters, such as tropical storms, floods, and drought, are projected to incr...
The future of a global climate treaty is still up in the air a. few weeks after t... of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. ("REDD") and the Kyoto Protocol's Cli...tropical developing countries to early action to reduce emi...
... (BSc) * Applied Biology (BSc) in * Forestry (BSc, animal biology, plant and BScF, MASc, MSc, s... Toronto University of Windsor There is a tropical ecology uwindsor.ca field course offered in Costa ... a campus Market and Fair Trade planning Climate Challenge. Policy. A green campus The Universite d...
... records, nearly eight-million hectares of forest a year were allowed to regrow or were planted anew...Even in tropical countries, where most deforestation takes place, B...So will climate change. That may already be happening in Canada, w...
... adaptation to deal with the more volatile climate that is predicted by all the major centres of clim... greenhouse gases by expanding forestry. For instance, Brazil and Mexico are introducing ... legislation for minimizing the loss of tropical rainforest and preserving these irreplaceable natu...
... global plans to do aerial surveys of tropical forests and create biological carbon pools for com... partner told him about the new Santiago Climate Exchange. . They'll make money on training Chilean...
...) * Environmental Studies (HBES, MES) * Forestry (HBScF) * Nature-Based Recreation and Tourism (MES....ca & Outdoor Recreation's the BC-wide Climate Campuses in North Wilderness Leadership Change Sta... Course - research is Toronto focused on tropical deforestation, sustainable development and biodive...
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