Friday, November 25th, 2011
Our most important source for knowledge about past life is the fossil record. But how exact is it in telling us about the history of life? According to a new study in Science the evolution of marine life over the last 500 million years has been strongly influenced by sea level changes and ocean chemistry and despite its incompleteness, the fossil
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
“The recent sea ice decline … appears to be unprecedented,” said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper published Wednesday online in Nature. “We kind of have to conclude that there’s a strong chance that there’s a human influence embedded in that signal.” Read
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The global greenhouse gas emissions have again reached a new high – never been as much CO 2 from fossil fuels into the atmosphere as 2010. On the next UN climate conference of 28 November to 9 December 2011 to Durban (South Africa) now be agreed by an effective political effort on future regulations to reduce emissions, because time
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
The Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting has announced the 2012 Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. In its seventh consecutive year, the $75,000 Grantham Prize, the largest cash award for journalism, will reward the very best environmental writing of 2011.
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Emergency services working in the immediate aftermath of disasters will benefit from fast access to pan-European mapping created from interoperable, geospatial data thanks to an agreement between EuroGeographics and the European Environment Agency (EEA). The agreement, signed on 16th November 2011 at the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) plenary in Istanbul, Turkey, will improve access to
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Amphibian populations are declining worldwide, and their declines far exceed those of other animal groups: more than 30% of all species are listed as threatened according to the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Multiple factors threaten global amphibian diversity but the spatial distribution of these threats and their
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
55 new papers on sustainability impact assessment have been published in EFI’s Technical Report series. The reports are deliverables and results from the EU FP6 Integrated Project EFORWOOD – Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain. EFI was one of the 38 partners in the project, which ran from 2005 to 2010.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
The 64th annual meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute (GCFI) came to a successful close in Cancun, Mexico this week. C The meeting served as a unique opportunity for fishers, conservationists and scientists to come together to exchange current information on the use and management of marine resources in the Gulf and Caribbean region
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Long before environmental protection and sustainability were the buzz words they are today, Sheikh Zayed, the founding President of the UAE, was creating the framework for Abu Dhabi’s green institutions. He was interested in modern agriculture and water management from his early days in Government, but observers point to the late 1970s as the start of
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
The UNFCCC solicited views from parties on the implications of including reforestation of lands with forest in exhaustion as afforestation and reforestation Clean Development Mechanism project activities. Forest in exhaustion is basically a plantation forest for timber that is nearing its final harvest. The inclusion of forest in exhaustion would allow land owners to generate
