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The Drying of Iran's Lake Urmia and its Environmental Consequences - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) February 2012
(2012-02)
Lake Urmia in the northwestern corner of Iran is one of the largest permanent hypersaline lakes in the world and the largest lake in the Middle East (1,2,3). It extends as much as 140 km from north to south and is as wide ...
Only Scraps of the South American Atlantic Forest Remain—Eastern Paraguay - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Services (GEAS) - September 2010
(2010-09)
Prior to the mid-20th century, an extensive subtropical rain forest covered much of the Brazilian coastal plain, eastern Paraguay and part of northern Argentina. The forest supported over 20 000 plant species, many of them ...
Keeping Track of Our Changing Environment--From Rio to Rio+20 (1992-2012) - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) May 2012
(2012-05)
In 1992, the first United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, was convened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to address the state of the environment and sustainable development. ...
UNEP Digital Metrics - August 2015
(2015-08)
Huge Iceberg Breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) December 2010
(2010-12)
Glaciers are naturally dynamic, slowly changing in shape and size as they move. When a glacier enters the sea, new icebergs form as pieces break off, or calve, from the glacier. How much calving occurs depends on the ...
Tunza vol. 8.2: hazards and disasters
(UNEP, 2010)
UNEP magazine for youth.
The Future of the Aral Sea Lies in Transboundary Co-operation - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Service (GEAS) - January 2014
(2014)
Diversion of water sources has caused the Aral Sea in Central Asia to decline significantly over the past five decades. It has broken into several smaller seas, leaving behind a vast desert and a multitude of environmental, ...
Green and decent jobs for poverty eradication : UNEP Post 2015 Note 4
(2014)
Green jobs are not just for high-tech enterprises. Nature-based and other green jobs can create prosperity for all while safeguarding the Earth’s life support systems and the ecological foundation of the economy.
GEO Matters - October 2018
(2018-10)
This October 2018 issue covers the outcome of the summary for policy makers drafting meeting, the co-chairs of the Global Environment Outlook for Youth as well as a personal story on youth and agriculture.
UNEP in Africa Newsletter May - June
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2015)
UNEP Regional Office for Africa Newsletter