From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Nov 21 2010 6:39 AM

The use of traditional cooking stoves using open woodfires contributes to deforestation in the Philippines. But a new cooking stove was developed, using coconut oil. Also the Abaca or Manila hemp is very suitable in the rain forestation farming system.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Nov 21 2010 6:39 AM

Tourists come to Bwindi in Uganda to see the world famous mountain gorillas that only live in this forest. But a growing population and consequent deforestation reduced their habitat and threatened their survival.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Nov 21 2010 6:39 AM

The first ministry for the environment in the Dominican Republic created the conditions for development organizations such as IDDI (Instituto Dominicano de Desarrollo Integral) to work with local people to help improve their environment.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Nov 21 2010 6:39 AM

In a pioneering scheme Costa Rica is finding ways to charge those who benefit from the forests' environmental services and pass this money on to those who own the land to enable them to protect it.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Nov 21 2010 6:39 AM

Spain periodically suffers from severe water shortages. It’s not that there is a lack of water, it's that too much is squandered.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Sun, Nov 21 2010 6:39 AM

The Dana project was a pilot project in the Middle East for an integrated approach to nature conservation with human economic development.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Nov 17 2010 7:56 AM

Remote areas pose the greatest challenges to providing preventive healthcare. Medicines and vaccines cannot be transported easily because they lose their effectiveness if not kept cold. But now there is the solar fridge.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Nov 17 2010 7:56 AM

Recognizing the economic potential of small-scale cultivation of sea moss, the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI), has been working with farmers in Saint Lucia to cultivate sea moss as part of a wider natural resources management program.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Nov 17 2010 7:56 AM

Scandinavian Silver Eel (SSE) is a Swedish eel farming company producing eels for consumption, restocking and on growing. The farm was set up by Kemira Kemi AB, a chemical company based in Helsingborg, and the industrial town’s biggest employer.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Nov 17 2010 7:56 AM

Freshwater fish are a very popular food in Hungary. The climate and geography in Hungary make it particularly suitable for the development of pond farming.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Wed, Nov 17 2010 7:56 AM

In Malawi, the Makoka Research Station, part of the government’s Agricultural Research Department, is encouraging farmers to plant certain trees for commercial benefit and it is helping to increase the market value for commercial forest fruit products.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Thu, Nov 11 2010 4:36 AM

In 1997, two million hectares of rainforest burned out of control in Indonesian Borneo. But the smoke and pollution did not obscure the real cause of this disaster: big plantation companies demonstrating on a scale rarely seen before.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

Although90% of disaster deaths occur in developing countries, unnatural disasters are not the sole preserve of the poor. In 1997 the River Oder in Germany burst its banks as flood water from Poland surged through the river system.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

In London, some of the world’s largest insurance companies are swallowing ever-harder as they consider the mounting losses which they attribute specifically to man-made climate change.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

Dr. Dan Fagre of the U.S Geological Survey studied the changes of the glaciers at the Glaciers National Park in Montana. He says that across the globe there has been a measurable amount of ice melts and glaciers retreat, due to the global climate change.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

Unless like Congress, the public opinion in the United States now seems to be moving in favor of accepting limits to greenhouse gas emissions.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

The global climate change is already affected the US in many ways, like the recent hurricanes, sea level rise and coastal erosion. There is a need for action from the Congress in the US.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

This video is about the Patagonian toothfish, better known as sea bass, which fetches such high prices that fishing 'pirates' will play a ruthless game of cat-and mouse with navies and conservationists in order to land their 'white gold'.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

In the French island port of Reunion lie five pirate vessels caught by the French Navy. For these boats the price of pirating will far exceed the millions they may have made selling their illegally gotten gains.

From: 5min.com on AOL on Tue, Nov 09 2010 11:42 AM

Until recently, many of the pirate ships were owned by Norwegian operators. But pressure form the conservation NGO Isofish has all but shut down their business.