Census of Marine Life Washington D.C. 25-Jun-2008 World Register of Marine Species inaugurated with first 122,500 validated names; over 56,000 aliases for ocean species identified
Census of Marine Life Washington DC 18-May-2008 Millions of starfish-like creatures catch passing food in 4 km/h current; cod shelter from ‘rattling’ current in folds
Canadian Biotechnology Education Resource Centre / BioTalent Canada Toronto / Ottawa 7-May-2008 Health Canada’s preliminary test of student’s findings ‘encouraging’ A ground-breaking study by a
Encyclopoedia of Life / Smithsonian Institution The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life were unveiled today (Feb. 27) at the prestigious
McLaughlin Rotman Centre for Global Health University of Toronto / University Health Network 7-Jan-2008 Government funds innovation but venture capital needed; Wary investors ‘need to
University of Helsinki 29 Nov 07 European Union countries likely require an old ally – Mother Nature and her forests – to meet an ambitious
Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, Plymouth, UK, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 25-Nov-2007 Speedy diagnosis of the temper and
United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Yokohama, Japan 10-Nov-2007 Report says ban on human reproductive cloning, coupled with restricted therapeutic research, is global compromise
Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 14-Sep-2007 Major advances foreseen in health, consumer and environment protection, more About 350 DNA barcoding experts from
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto 10 Sep 07 The first comprehensive examination of the ethical, social and cultural (ESC) challenges faced by major science
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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