UN Intergov’l Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn 8 December 2013 IPBES experts cite importance of ‘co-production’ of information with indigenous people With
Deep Carbon Observatory, Washington DC 8 December 2013 New formula for fast, abundant H2 production may help power fuel cells, helps explain expansive chemical-eating microbial
UN Intergov’l Platform on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services, Bonn 5-Nov-2013 Most of the world’s nations — unanimously committed to protecting biodiversity — nevertheless cannot measure
Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, University of California Berkeley 10-Jun-2013 Biodiversity in watershed covering roughly 20% of Canada compared to Africa’s Serengeti; Alarm raised
Block Lab, Stanford University, Monterey Bay, CA, USA 16-Aug-2012 New high-tech ocean observers debut above ‘The Blue Serengeti’; ‘Shark Net’ app lets public follow tagged animals
Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 27-Nov-2011 Global ‘barcode blitz’ accelerates; 450 experts converge on Adelaide Nov. 28-Dec. 3 The newfound scientific power
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 16-Nov-2011 Sustainable coastal management, regional coordination and long-term, holistic viewpoint needed to protect fragile
Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 13 September 2011
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL.org) Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 5 September 2011 Glasswing butterfly - Credit- Kibuyu Landmark global online collaboration now offers trusted information on
Census of Marine Life, Washington DC 23 Aug 2011 Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million). That is a new, estimated
United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 28 Jul 11 Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and
United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 11 Jul 2011 Networks of biologically-connected marine protected areas need to be carefully
Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 26 Jun 11
Census of Marine Life, Washington DC / Tagging of Pacific Palagics project, Pacific Grove, CA 22 June 2011 Decade of electronic tagging, tracking of 23 top
Rockefeller University, New York / University of Helsinki 06 Jun 11 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, US and European
Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 5-Apr-2011 Scientists
Diversitas, Paris 17-Feb-2011 How should a new ‘IPCC for biodiversity’ work? Leading world scientists offer prescription In the journal Science this week, leading scientists say
Diversitas Paris, France Common approach urged to unify global biodiversity advice. A new analysis of several major global studies of future species shifts and losses
Census of Marine Life Washington DC, USA 4-Oct-2010 Culminating a 10-year exploration, 2,700 scientists from 80 nations report first Census of Marine Life, revealing what,
DIVERSITAS, Paris 29 Sep 2009 The world’s rivers are in a crisis of ominous proportions, according to a new global analysis to be published Sept. 30
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Census of Marine Life Washington DC 18-Apr-2010 Microbial mat the size of Greece found on oxygen-starved South American seafloor; Scientists puzzle out Neptune’s riotous diversity