Monday, September 10th, 2012
Today, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, IUCN awarded its two highest medals to outstanding individuals of the conservation world, and eleven other conservation greats were granted honorary membership of IUCN.
Monday, September 10th, 2012
At the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) is warning of the growing threats faced by many existing World Heritage sites and is calling for stronger measures to guarantee their future.
Friday, September 7th, 2012
Protected Areas –parks, nature reserves and other natural areas– assist in reducing deforestation, habitat and species loss, and support the livelihoods of over one billion people, while containing 15 % of the world’s carbon stock, according to a new report released today at the World Conservation Congress.
Friday, September 7th, 2012
To increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people worldwide the current model for investment in forests must be turned on its head. An initiative of unprecedented scale, led by The Forests Dialogue (TFD), IUCN and the Growing Forests Partnerships (GFP), has found that optimizing the benefits and productivity of forests requires moving
Friday, September 7th, 2012
U.S. Geological Survey researchers are among an international group of scientists setting sail Aug. 25 on a voyage to explore the Arctic. This will be a five-week expedition aboard U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy.
Friday, September 7th, 2012
More government agencies and nongovernmental organizations want citizens to contribute volunteered geographic information (VGI), such as reports of potholes in their communities or georeferenced photographs of flooding, earthquake damage, or fires, to a web map. Other organizations only give certain employees permission to edit geographic data.
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
A prominent Australian medical researcher has used the region’s largest geospatial conference to back the crucial role of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology in understanding the links between health and where we reside, work and play. During her keynote address at the Ozri 2012 conference in Sydney today, Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Associate Professor Robyn Clark
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
The IUCN World Conservation Congress, the world’s largest and most important conservation event, begins today on Jeju Island, South Korea. More than 8,000 people from more than 170 countries are in Jeju to discuss, debate and vote on solutions to some of the globe’s most pressing environmental and development issues.
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
RapidEye, a leader in high-resolution, wide area repetitive coverage of Earth through its constellation of satellites announced today that it will take part in INTERGEO, an event that RapidEye has been involved with for more than five years running. This year, Europe’s largest event and communication platform for geodesy, geoinformation and land management will be held in Hannover from October
Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Blue Marble Desktop v2.5. This release introduces new powerful geodetic tools, new time dependent transformations and file formats. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas , mining,
