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- July 31, 2006
Ocean microbe census discovers diverse world of rare bacteria
31 July 2006 Census of Marine Life A startling revelation about the number of different kinds of bacteria in the deep-sea raises fundamental new questions
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- May 29, 2006
How to cut energy waste in China, India, Brazil said crucial to forestalling climate change
29 May 06 United Nations Environment Programme / World Bank Without significant gains from energy efficiency efforts, China, India and Brazil within a single human
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- May 7, 2006
Creating New Insight Into HIV-AIDS Virus Wins Canada’s Top Student Biotech Prize
Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre 17 May 2006 Research by a 16-year-old Ottawa-area student that contributes new insights into the workings of the HIV-AIDS virus
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- January 17, 2006
Landslides: Asia has Most; Americas, the Deadliest; Europe, the Costliest; Experts Seek Ways to Mitigate Losses; Danger Said Growing Due to Climate Change, Other Causes
17 Jan 06 United Nations University Asia suffered 220 landslides in the past century – by far the most of any world region – but
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- December 22, 2005
Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say
22 Dec 05 WorldFish Centre One year after a tsunami devastated South Asian communities, global fisheries experts say habitat restoration, retraining and education programs are
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- December 14, 2005
‘Fish with chips’ reporting from ocean among highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
14 Dec 05 Census of Marine Life A physconect siphonophore, Marrus sp., photographed during NOAA’s Arctic “Hidden Ocean” expedition in support of the Census of
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- November 27, 2005
Ethics in a pandemic
27 Nov 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Coping effectively with a predicted influenza pandemic that threatens to affect the health of millions
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- November 5, 2005
Ranks of ‘environmental refugees’ swell, calls grow for better definition, recognition, support
11 Nov 05 United Nations University Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping
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- November 5, 2005
Prepare public for bird flu, experts urge governments
Joint Centre for Bioethics, Toronto 27 Nov 2005 Ethicists offer guide to decision-making in predicted flu pandemic; quarantine, duty to care, resource allocations among key
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- October 23, 2005
Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history
23 Oct 05 Census of Marine Life Seafood prices collected from U.S. restaurant menus dating to the 1850s will help plot the shifting harvest of
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- October 5, 2005
Valuing biodiversity services, including its insurance against disease
25 Oct 05 DIVERSITAS, Paris By diluting the pool of virus targets and hosts, biodiversity reduces their impact on humans and provides a form of
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- August 21, 2005
Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
21 Aug 05 WorldFish Centre Calling fisheries critical for nourishing the poor and for helping Africa cope with the health, economic and social devastation of
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- July 5, 2005
Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
29 Jul 05 Census of Marine Life A historic expedition of Census of Marine Life explorers to the planet’s most northern reaches has revealed a
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- June 26, 2005
Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics
26 Jun 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics The biggest issue in medical ethics today is the growing occurrence of conflict between health
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- June 16, 2005
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
16 Jun 05 United Nations University Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods.
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- June 8, 2005
Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
08 Jun 05United Nations UniversityVast genetic resources – “blue gold” on the international deep seafloor – need protection from unfettered commercial exploitation, warns a new
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- May 15, 2005
Bridging the digital divide by making computers for kids as common as pencils
15 May 05 United Nations University A global education system in which a fully portable personal computer is as common as a pencil or textbook
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- May 12, 2005
Discovery about genetics of sex workers with apparent HIV-AIDS immunity wins Canada’s top student biotech prize for Grade 12 Manitoba Scientist
Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre, Toronto 12 May, 2005 Top winners: Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vancouver, Cape Breton, Ottawa, St. John’s Teen Scientist from Winnipeg to Compete
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- May 1, 2005
United Nations University calls for world help to repair Iraqi higher education system
01 May 05 United Nations University Since the start of the war of 2003 some 84% of Iraq’s higher education institutions have been burnt, looted
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- April 11, 2005
Nanotechnology’s miniature answers to developing world’s biggest problems
11 Apr 05 University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics In a new study by researchers at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
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- March 30, 2005
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: New Report Warns Ecosystem Changes Will Continue to Worsen, Hampering Global Development Goals
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment / United Nations University March 30, 2005 A landmark study released today reveals that approximately 60 percent (15 out of 24) of
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- March 21, 2005
South America’s vast Pantanal wetland may become next Everglades, UNU experts warn
21 Mar 05 United Nations University South America’s giant Pantanal wetlands, one of the world’s most bio-diverse ecosystems, is at growing risk from intensive peripheral