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Wind farm construction in Canada doubled in 2006 from a year ago, enabling it to power 370,000 homes with the renewable energy, Canadian Wind Energy Association President Robert Hornung said on October 23, in Manitoba, Canada.

“We project that Canada will end the year with more than 700 MW of new wind energy projects installed," Hornung said.

“More than 500 MW of wind energy capacity has been built this year in Canada, up from the previous record of 240 MW in 2005, bringing the total to 1,218 MW,” according to Hornung.

They showed that dryland degradation can be reversed if farmers, researchers and governments invest in planting trees, farming more sustainably and replenishing groundwater.

In an ideal world, all of Africa's women would have access to clinics, nurses, obstetricians, medicines: the panoply of staff and equipment needed to make the process of giving birth as safe as possible. Failing that, what can be done to lessen the risks that come with delivering babies? For one, improve the skills of traditional birth attendants (TBAs), say delegates who met in September 2006 in Mozambique at an African Union (AU) gathering on sexual and reproductive health care.

Location:

United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Iceland, Finland

Initiative:

Two new studies released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto last week demonstrate good outcomes in antiretroviral treatment (ART) of children living with HIV/AIDS across a wide array of resource-poor settings, but also show that pediatric drug formulations are excessively overpriced, costing up to six times more than adult equivalents.

A pioneering project is reducing the environmental damage from shrimp trawling. The project, funded by the multi-billion dollar Global Environment Facility (GEF), has dramatically cut the unwanted catch of young fish, turtles and other "by-catch" by as much as 30 to 70 percent in some countries. 

Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time. Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our growing vulnerability to climate change. The impacts of climate change will range from affecting agriculture – further endangering food security –, sea-level rise and the accelerated erosion of coastal zones, to increasing intensity of natural disasters, species extinction and the spread of vector-borne diseases.         

Local solution to protect the Mngazana Estuary, regarded as the most important estuary in the Eastern Cape of South Africa with its 140 hectare stand of mangroves, is proving effective with four enterprises dependent on the mangroves which provide an incentive not to harvest.

The Mngazana Estuary, 15 km south of Port St Johns, is regarded as the most important estuary in the Eastern Cape. The main reason for this is its 140 hectare stand of mangroves, the third largest in South Africa.