Monday, September 12th, 2011
A three-year series of pole-to-pole research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced today. The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, is enabling researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect
Saturday, September 10th, 2011
These regions are Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Ord, South East Queensland and Sydney. A quick guide is available to help navigate the information. The remaining two reports – Melbourne and the Murray–Darling Basin – will be released over the next two months. Information presented is similar in style to financial accounting reports and includes the total water resources, the access
Friday, September 9th, 2011
This monograph contains a selection of scientific papers presented on the conference on Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union, hold in Keszthely, Hungary. It covers topics related to various aspects of land quality including: concepts of assessment; evaluation of biomass productivity; bio-indicators of land quality; quality assessment of degraded land; land
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Countries around the world are embracing “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) as a verifiable approach to protecting biological diversity and mitigating climate change, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute for the publication Vital Signs Online. PES are financial arrangements designed to protect the many benefits that are provided by the natural environment. They include
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Six months on from publication of the Government’s vision for Mainstreaming Sustainable Development, Defra’s Jonathan Tillson reviews progress: “We have had a productive first six months establishing our ways of working, strengthening cross government relationships and securing some early wins in embedding sustainable development in government policy and operations.” Defra is currently developing a new set of sustainable development
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Roads, motorways, railways, intensive agriculture and urban developments are breaking up Europe’s landscapes into ever-smaller pieces, with potentially devastating consequences for flora and fauna across the continent, according to a new joint report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). The report, ‘Landscape fragmentation in Europe’, demonstrates
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Degrees in climate change and sustainability provide future opinion leaders, managers and advisers with timely and relevant research-based knowledge. Nordic universities are collaborating on promoting this kind of education. With a prospect of a world population of nine billion people by 2050 and the effects of climate change it is becoming ever clearer that it
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
As a nation, we are experiencing a long slow emergency. As collapses go, our decline is comfortable and scenic. But we should be under no illusion: if we continue down this track, New Zealand will gradually become a backwater, delivering an ever poorer environment for everybody. Our children will grow up cheering for the Wallabies. That’s
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
A core commitment to restore 150 million hectares of lost forests and degraded lands worldwide by 2020 is launched today at a ministerial conference in Bonn. New analysis by IUCN estimates that restoring 150 million hectares would be worth US$ 85 billion per year to national and global economies.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
TransCanada Corporation is pleased that the Final Environmental Impact Statement(FEIS) for the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline has reaffirmed the environmental integrity of the project.This is the third Environmental Impact Statement that the U.S. Department of State has issued on Keystone XL since the review process began in 2008.
