Africa Loses Massive Forest Cover Jun 14, 2008
On the Ugandan border with Democratic Republic of Congo, for instance, glaciers on the Ruwenzori Mountains where the highest peak is 5,109 metres shrunk by half between 1987 and 2003, it states. Trees and shrubs had been cut from the Jebel Marra foothills in Sudan, partly because of an influx of refugees from the conflict in Darfur. (allAfrica.com)
Mary Meader, at 91; was pioneer as globe-circling aerial photographer Apr 7, 2008
Her photographs have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, including the first photograph of the peak of Mount Stanley in the Ruwenzori range, known since antiquity as the Mountains of the Moon. Previously, clouds had thwarted attempts to photograph it from the ground. (Boston Globe)
"Mountains of the Moon" Glaciers Melting in Africa Mar 26, 2008
The iconic glaciers of the Ruwenzori Mountains, which cast a thick and icy mist more than 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) above the Equator in central Africa, have shrunk by 50 percent over the past 50 years, says the conservation group WWF. ... Photographs taken by members of a WWF expedition to the Ruwenzoris last month show a massive reduction in glacier size when compared with similar images from the 1950s, probably from increased temperatures or humidity ... Spanning the border of and the , the... (National Geographic)
Lessons in humanity May 14, 2007
Simple things can make a big difference for students in this remote, rolling region of lush tea plantations, flanked by the Ruwenzori Mountains and Lake Albert. Many came from large families of subsistence farmers who earn at most a few hundred dollars a year. (Boston Globe -- Local)
Reasoning with the unreasonable Apr 27, 2007
Because of global warming, the glaciers of the Ruwenzori range in Uganda are in massive retreat. The Bering Glacier, North America s largest glacier, has lost 7 miles of its length, while losing 20-25 percent of parts of the glacier. (Montrose Daily Press, CO)
