The launches at Baikonur over the past decades are believed to have affected the climate in the region.
Moderating the tropical climate of the region, it presents one of the best examples of the monsoon system in the planet.
He told the Jewish leaders Thursday that he would emphasize to Abbas that peace remains possible, though very difficult given the current climate in the region.
This proposition is based both in climate-modeling results and the Region??s climate signs and trends evidencing that the above-mentioned factors are a climatic expression of the current conditions.
Some 50 million years ago, the climate in the southwest region of Wyoming was a vegetal and aquatic paradise.
The Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Icimod) has released a series of reports setting out what is known and what is not known about climate change in the region.
Today we flew to Fairbanks and went to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, for presentations on the diversity of the Arctic Ocean and how climate change is impacting the region.
Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture developed in the north-western part of Japan s main island and bear the mark of the region s cooler climate particularly its snowy winters.
The resolution, adopted unanimously, says armed groups in eastern Congo "perpetuate a climate of insecurity in the whole region".
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The region boasts a warm climate and fertile lands, which are ideal for the growth of mulberry trees and sericulture.
Lombok has fine beaches, beautiful coral, the highest mountain in the region, a benign climate and ambitions to become rich through tourism like its neighbour Bali.
Another aim of the Arctic Arc expedition, sponsored by Rolex, is to raise awareness of the impact climate change is having on the region among eight to 18-year-olds.
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The study simulated changes in agricultural yields as a result of changing precipitation and temperature patterns, finding that crop yields may increase under the higher temperature and precipitation under many climate-change scenarios in this region.
Tucked between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine, hugging the border between France and Germany, Alsace enjoys a cool growing climate similar to that of the Champagne region.
However, the huge swathes of abandoned former forest land alongside previous road schemes show that, in fact, much of the region lacks suitable soil and climate for agriculture.
Careful observation of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas region, an area where climate change could bring major impacts to people, have been relatively scanty, due to the difficulty of doing science in remote areas, compounded by political disagreements.
But she says the lower yields of organic farms in any country could be greatly increased as scientists learn more about controlling insects and disease without chemicals, and find the right crops to suit a particular region's pests and climate.
President Bush said that during this visit, sure to be Blair's last as prime minister, the two leaders discussed not only Iraq and Afghanistan, but also unrest in the Middle East, ongoing violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and global climate change.
So, even if SAARC really comes together to deal with the effects of climate change while the big players in the region and elsewhere fail to cut down their emissions, experts say it will be a zero-sum game.
Christian Aid warns that the current conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan -- a crisis summed up by some as the world's first "climate change war" as spreading desertification and water shortages contributed to clashes between the region's African farmers and nomadic Arabs -- could be a taste of a "nightmare scenario" set to be repeated elsewhere across Africa and the world.
Each of the eight FRIEND networks shares information, data and techniques, in order to monitor climate variability and change in river basins in a given region.
Mr. HOLMES: My concern is if you add enough extra freshwater to the north Atlantic, you could slow down or even shut down the circulation which would potentially have dramatic impacts on climate, such as a cooling in the North Atlantic region in Western Europe.
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Feedback will be incorporated into the subsequent event, "Power Shift NZ-Pacific" which runs from the 7th to 9th of December, to ensure the presence of a Pacific perspective to climate change - an issue of extreme significance to the Pacific region.
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In South Asia, for example, climate change is likely to bring more water to a perennially thirsty region.
In 1984-85 famine ravaged the Karamoja region of eastern Uganda, which shares the same dryland climate as Somalia and Ethiopia.
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Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday invited his counterparts from the countries in the region for an informal meeting at the sideline of the climate conference here.
On Tuesday, Mr Mubarak said Egypt had responded favourably to calls for reconciliation "despite the fact that some continue to overshadow the climate of reconciliation with positions that reflect schemes forged outside our Arab region", an apparent reference to Syria's strategic alliance with Iran.
Taking into account the dependence of the properties of plants on climate and on other geographical characteristics, the complementariness among countries in the region, between them and other regions, may be exploited usefully.
But with the new climate of freedom of expression emerging in Egypt, and elsewhere in the Arab region, millions now feel emboldened to challenge these dictates.
Equally, last year's flooding of the Mekong river, which devastated large parts of Cambodia, should serve as a warning to the region, says David McCauley, head of the ADB's climate-change programme.
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