{"id":27097,"date":"2008-06-13T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:37:03","slug":"2097-satellite-images-show-environmental-damage-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/2097-satellite-images-show-environmental-damage-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images show environmental damage in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is losing more than four million hectares of forest each year &ndash; a source of concern in 35 countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Malawi, Nigeria and Rwanda. While the vanishing snows of Tanzania&rsquo;s Mount Kilimanjaro and waters of Lake Chad are well-known, the images showed that the glaciers of the Rwenzori Mountains &ndash; on the DRC-Uganda border &#8212; have shrunk by half.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change was &ldquo;the driving force behind many of these problems,&rdquo; said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, where the 400-page atlas was presented on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Prepared for the environment ministers&rsquo; meeting in Johannesburg, the UNEP atlas showed positive signs in some areas. Steiner noted, however, that the atlas &ldquo;clearly demonstrates the vulnerability of people in the region to forces beyond their control&rdquo;. The findings, he said, &ldquo;underline the urgent need&rdquo; for a new climate agreement at the UN&rsquo;s 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/Documents.Multilingual\/Default.asp?DocumentID=538&amp;ArticleID=5834&amp;l=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full story:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new United Nations atlas of satellite images of Africa reveals deforestation at double the global rate, rapidly melting glaciers and other devastating impacts of increased urbanisation and climate 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