Friday, March 11th, 2011
Pact, Inc. is pleased to present its biodiversity assessment of 13 community forests in Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia. This assessment was a collaboration between Pact, Inc., Birdlife International and the Cambodian Forestry Administration, and was funded by The US Department of State.
Friday, March 11th, 2011
During a special airborne mission to study the air-quality impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill last June, NOAA researchers discovered an important new mechanism by which air pollution particles form. Although predicted four years ago, this discovery now confirms the importance of this pollution mechanism and could change the way urban air quality
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Yesterday, we launched the XIth Alpine Conference here at Brdo. We started by highlighting our common achievements in making the sustainable development of the Alpine world possible and in addressing issues that we have been confronted with in the past 20 years, since the signing of the Alpine Convention. The discussion, which focused on exchanging
Friday, March 11th, 2011
The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (giz) have published a booklet on ‘Biodiversity and Livelihoods: REDD-plus Benefits’ (available in English at http://www.cbd.int/forest/publications.shtml. Spanish and French versions will follow shortly at the same URL).
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Water Innovation Centre (WIC) has issued a synthesis report that captures the consensus reached at the recent Lake Winnipeg Basin Summit in Winnipeg, held in early December. The report sets out the guiding principles for creating opportunities to reduce nutrient loadings in the lake basin and building a process for
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
The scenic Aker River (Akerselva) which runs through central Oslo, has been hit by massive pollution which has destroyed all marine life in the river, which was rich on salmon and trout. A week ago it as discovered that 6000 litres of Chlorine had leaked from a burst pipe at the water treatment plant north of
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Each year, ICIMOD celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March to honour, highlight and promote the role of women in sustainable mountain development. This year, the Centre looks forward to celebrating two events. During the first event, ‘Celebrating 100 Years of International Women’s Day’, ICIMOD is honoured to welcome Ms Anuradha Koirala, Chairperson of Maiti
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Landuse change models are typically calibrated to reproduce known historic changes. Calibration results can then be assessed by comparing two datasets: the simulated landuse map and the actual landuse map at the same time. A common method for this is the Kappa statistic, which expresses the agreement between two categorical datasets corrected for the expected
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Soils are valuable, because they provide the basis for food, because they are habitat for many animals, plants and microorganisms, they protect water resources and store and transform nutrients. Soil are buffering climate and they tell stories and hold treasuries. This incomplete list already shows that soils are multifunctional and not replaceable. They are a limited resource which
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing three facilities with the Energy Star Combined Heat and Power (CHP) award for simultaneously producing electricity and useful thermal energy from a single energy source, such as natural gas, biomass, coal, or waste heat. This technology leads to energy savings and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and
