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Biodiversity and...
www.facebook.com via @SusCentre &bull YesterdaySustainability Centre Biodiversity and air pollution at Butser Hill Come and join OPAL scientists at this free event to explore biodiversity at Butser Hill, National Nature Reserve (NNR) this Saturday 13th March 2010 (all day) kick off 11:00. Part of… Full Story »
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Global award for New Zealand Tourism Company
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 10, 2010Auckland tourism company TIME Unlimited Tours has just been pronounced overall winner in the public vote section of the global Indigenous Tourism and Biodiversity Website Award 2010. The competition comprised applicants from 10 different countries around the world (Australia, Bolivia,… Full Story »
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Planet Earth: Discover and Explore Wildlife Habitats, Animal Behavior, Conservation, and the Environment
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Innovation Provides Alternative Energy Source
www.nextbillion.net via @hightechafrica &bull Mar 8, 2010NextBillion brings together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Local handmade paper and products marketer and sales agent Phumani Paper is actively involved in… Full Story »
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Threatened protected plants (1)
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010This plant is considered to be critically endangered. Indeed, it is protected through both national and international legislation. Special areas of conservation have been designated to further protect this species and its habitat. The management of such sites, law enforcement… Full Story »
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EMA focuses on economic value of biodiversity
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 8, 2010The year 2010 has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) by the United Nations. It is the occasion on which the diversity of life on Earth, including every plant, animal and micro-organism, is being observed. The slogan for… Full Story »
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Deep sea fish 'eat their greens'
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Mar 5, 2010Fish may take advantage of terrestrial plant remains and macroalgae," says Dr Rachel Jeffreys of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research based in Texel. Dr Jeffreys and colleagues at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Oceanlab at… Full Story »
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Community Couture
green.tv &bull Mar 1, 2010
Polar BearsFebruary 27th is International Polar Bear Day! In this film from Friends of the Earth, two polar bears muse about whether humans caused global... Biodiversity is lifeBiodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life. One of four scenarios exploring what… Full Story »
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The Tokyo Two Trial
green.tv &bull Feb 25, 2010
Biodiversity is lifeBiodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life. WWF WWF works to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Friends of the Earth Friends of… Full Story »
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UK wildlife becoming the 'living dead'
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Feb 25, 2010Biodiversity is in decline in the UK. Even the Government admits as much, saying we have lost more than 100 species during the last century and that many more species and habitats [are] in danger of disappearing, especially at the… Full Story »
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All creatures great and small
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Feb 25, 2010Biodiversity is the ?full variety of life on Earth.? More specifically, biodiversity is the study of the processes that create and maintain variation. It is concerned with the variety of individuals within populations, the diversity of species within communities, and… Full Story »
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Biodiversity for Low and Zero Carbon Buildings: A Technical Guide for New Build
www.ribabookshops.com via @RIBABookshops &bull Feb 24, 2010The built environment has the potential to have a major impact on biodiversity, not least with the increasingly demanding requirements to design more energy efficient and airtight buildings, leaving less space for species to inhabit. Up until the publication of… Full Story »
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BIODIVERSITY: Northern Biopirates Gobbling up Resources IPS ipsnews.net The Vienna Cafe
theviennacafe.wordpress.com via @GreenVisionIPV &bull Feb 24, 2010Rich countries are like biopirates, looting far-away lands for food, raw materials and cheap labour. Theyre plundering other richer ecosystems because theyve largely destroyed their own. And theyre blocking global efforts to create an independent scientific assessment panel that is… Full Story »
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Small family farms in tropics can feed the hungry and preserve biodiversity
www.eurekalert.org via @felipefornobel &bull Feb 23, 2010ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Conventional wisdom among many ecologists is that industrial-scale agriculture is the best way to produce lots of food while preserving biodiversity in the world's remaining tropical forests. But two University of Michigan researchers reject that idea and argue that small, family-owned farms may provide a better way to meet both goals. In many tropical zones… Full Story »
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The Official Government News Portal of Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka identified as a Bio-diversity hotspot
www.news.lk via @PrimeRadioNews &bull Feb 22, 2010Sri Lanka has been identified by the environment activist group Conservation International as one of the 25 biodiversity hot spots in the world. Sri Lankas tropical rain forest ecosystem is considered as an area which is disturbed by human activity,… Full Story »
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Call for Papers
The Bard CEP Blog &bull Feb 20, 2010Call For Student Submissions Since it?s beginning in 1973, the Coastal Management Journal has been a leading forum for presenting research results and policy dialogue applicable to the coastal zone. In an effort to encourage students to publicize their research,… Full Story »
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wildsingapore news: Local social dynamics key to success of ...
wildsingapore news &bull Feb 20, 2010When people sacrifice to conserve, they want to benefit from that sacrifice," says Patrick Christie, University of Washington associate professor of marine affairs and a Pew fellow in marine conservation. Conflicts develop, however, when outsiders move in to take advantage of improving environmental conditions. Managing such conflicts… Full Story »
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Session on ocean acidification at the Asia Oceania Geosciences ...
Ocean acidification &bull Feb 20, 20105-9 July 2010 Section: OS Ocean Science Session title: Ocean Acidification: research advances and methodologies Main convener: Prof. kunshan Gao (Xiamen Univ., China) Co-conveners: Prof. K Lee (POSTEC, Korea, South), Prof. Minhan Dai (Xiamen University, China) Session Description: Since the… Full Story »
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Science Centric
Science Centric | News | Environment &bull Feb 20, 2010Wildfires in Southern California captured by satellite [1 Sep 2009] Wildfires throughout Southern California has been captured by the backward (northward)-viewing camera of the Multi-angle... Water scarcity started 15 years ago [26 Aug 2009] New analysis shows that the water scarcity being experienced in southeast Australia started up to 15 years ago. While the... Solar cycle linked to global climate [16 Jul 2009] Establishing a key link between the solar cycle and global climate, new research led by the National Centre for Atmospheric... New form of El Nino… Full Story »
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The Murph Report Forests Are Growing Faster, Ecologists Discover ...
The Murph Report &bull Feb 20, 2010However, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years. The study offers a rare look at how an ecosystem is responding to climate change. For more than 20 years forest ecologist Geoffrey Parker has tracked the growth of 55 stands of mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland. The plots range in size,… Full Story »
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Humankind and biodiversity
Humanitarian News blogs &bull Feb 20, 2010Check the latest news on the Haiti Earthquake. You can also get this news delivered via a dedicated RSS feed, which refreshes automatically when new articles are being uploaded. Please find a summary while translation is in progress Just as… Full Story »
