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- August 26, 2007
Tuna Past and Present
Census of Marine Life, Washington DC 5-Aug-2007 Historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe; Tagging reveals migration, breeding secrets of declining population
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- June 27, 2007
Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
United Nations University 27 Jun 07 Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents “the greatest environmental challenge of our times” and governments must overhaul policy approaches
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- June 20, 2007
Investors flock to renewable energy and efficiency technologies: UN study
United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, Paris 20 Jun 07 Renewables shed fringe image — Transactions leap to record $100 billion
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- June 6, 2007
UN engages banks to light up rural India; Solar loans, energy access transform life for poor
United Nations Environment Programme Risoe Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, Denmark 29-Apr-2007 UNEP-led project expands to other developing countries Life for an estimated
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- May 8, 2007
Winnipeg Student Wins A Triple Crown in High School Science; Grade 12 Researcher, 17, Seeks Potential Alternative to Chemotherapy
May 8, 2007 Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre A Manitoba student has a first-ever Triple Crown of high school science, his project seeking a potential
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- April 12, 2007
India’s biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health / Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy 9-Apr-2007 India’s health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player,
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- March 21, 2007
Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
19-Mar-2007 United Nations University Book catalogues unethical research, gene theft in Pacific countries The Pacific region has experienced some of the world’s worst examples of
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- March 7, 2007
UN, industry, others partner to create world standards for e-scrap recycling, harvesting components
6-Mar-2007 United Nations University Growing need for elements in high-tech scrap –- often incinerated in poor countries Standardizing recycling processes globally to harvest valuable components
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- March 7, 2007
Titans of biodiversity science call for united, authoritative voice to inform decision-makers
19 July 2006 DIVERSITAS, Paris Robert Watson Warning that Earth is on the verge of “a major biodiversity crisis,” 19 of the field’s most distinguished
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- March 7, 2007
Creating a Window on ‘Oceans in Motion’: Academic, Science, Engineering Experts Illuminating Sea Life Conditions, Migrations
26 June 06 Dalhousie University Ocean Tracking Network Ron O'Dor Scientists and resource managers could soon have a highly detailed picture of marine conditions and
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- March 7, 2007
Diverse sea ‘bugs’ revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
May 4, 2006 Census of Marine Life Zooplankton DNA Sequenced at Sea; scientists census tiny species with starring role in food chain, world climate Census
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- February 25, 2007
Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
25-Feb-2007 Census of Marine Life Deep-sea species at unusually shallow depths on uncapped seabed (photo (c) Julian Gutt, AWI) Once roofed by ice for millennia,
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- February 18, 2007
Potential new bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
Rockefeller University / University of Guelph 18-Feb-2007 Scientists complete DNA portrait of US, Canadian bird species, Guyanese bats At unprecedented levels of difficulty involving highly
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- January 22, 2007
Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics 22-Jan-2007 Public health trumps individual human rights, medical ethics experts say Ross Upshur Medical ethics and other experts
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- December 14, 2006
Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
14-Dec-2006 United Nations University Joint International Conference Algiers, Dec. 17-19 About 200 experts from 25 countries are convening in Algiers Dec. 17-19 to advise shifts
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- December 10, 2006
Extreme Life, Marine Style, Highlights 2006 Ocean Census; Frontiers of Marine Science Stretched by Census experts
Census of Marine Life 10-Dec-2006 A host of record-breaking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the Census
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- December 5, 2006
Pioneering study shows richest 2 percent own half world wealth
5-Dec-2006 United Nations University Tony Shorrocks The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a
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- November 13, 2006
End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
13-Nov-2006 University of Helsinki / Rockefeller University, New York ‘Growing stock’ expanding in most forested nations, even with modest prosperity An increasing number of countries
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- October 24, 2006
Child soldiers: If children are not prosecuted for war crimes, are they more likely chosen by warlords to perform the worst atrocities?
24 Oct 06 United Nations University Some 300,000 combatants under age 18 – some as young as six and 40% of them girls – are
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- September 22, 2006
Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion per year: Economist
National Forest Congress, Ottawa www.nfc-cfn.ca Sept. 24, 2006 Create National Accounting Systems To Reflect All Values Of Boreal Forests: Economist It’s time to create a
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- September 11, 2006
Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world
11-Sep-2006 University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics Experts rank top 10 ways of improving health in poor countries from emerging stem cell and related
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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