Ecosystem

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Ecosystem”

• Fall in rice strains highlights Chinas biodiversity gap

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 513
  Shanshan Li in SciDev.net : The number of Chinas rice varieties has dramatically decreased, raising fears about the countrys food security and biodiversity. China had 46,000 rice varieties in the 1950s, but this plummeted to just 1,000 in 2006, according to a Chinese study published in BioScience this month ...
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• Floating barricades around Jammu lake to protect birds

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Jammu, Nov 27 (IANS) The wildlife department in Jammu and Kashmir will lay floating barricades around Surinsar lake to protect migratory birds, a minister said here Friday.“This is aimed at preserving the sensitive ecosystem of Surinsar lake,” said state Tourism Minister Nawang Rigzin Jora. Surinsar lake, about 40 ...
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• A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits with baited breath to see how greenhouse gas emissions from forests might be included. Despite the high powered nature of these important global decisions, the success of REDD will ultimately be decided by humble ...
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• Funding for Real Innovation in India! UNAVAILABLE

  
  VentureWoods — Authority: 110
  If you look carefully at the blue fish in the water below, you can discern INDIA written faintly on the body. Well it is not a fish but India’s first indigenous designed Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). I have a story about it for you. I first met Ammar in Delhi after he reached me through the India Brand ...
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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Do Android & WebOS need iPod touch clones?

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 166
  Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Dan Frommer’s post this morning over at Silicon Alley Insider suggests that one of the missing pieces from the competitive pie, as far as Google and Palm’s mobile OS offerings are concerned, is a 3G-free & contractless device. ...
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• Female Hawksbill Sea Turtle Rescued from Major’s Bay Salt Pond

  
  Kittivisian Life — Authority: 126
  St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network (SKSTMN)t 11:30am on Friday November 13th, 2009 the Sea Turtle Hotline received a call from concerned business owners Gary and Mary Pereira, reporting that a large sea turtle was caught in the salt pond adjacent to Major’s bay beach and was attempting to exit through the ...
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• Asian carp poses potential catastrophe

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  The Great Lakes face imminent threat from an invader that could cause its entire eco-system to collapse.
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• Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program , celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the ...
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• The Copenhagen Diagnosis: Were Screwed

  
  Demarcated Landscapes — Authority: 110
  (www.PlaneStupid.com) Weve been pretty quiet this week here on our fragmented homeland. Sorry. Its just that, well.. weve been mulling things over. First, we went to see The Yes Men Fix the World and we even got some face-time with one of the stars. (Who knew DL was so well connected, eh?) Its inspiring, because it ...
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• Symbiotic Green Walls

  
  BED Online Magazine - The Bed Blog - We are crazy about beds. — Authority: 445
  Here is something only able people can perhaps afford. It is an oasis of sorts, showing an eco-system where the wall collects, purifies and redistributes water around the set designed walls making use of natural resources. A digital monitoring system sheds light on water usage and overall health. It even cleans itself ...
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• Hantu Island an experimental site for costal protection design

  
  Pulau Hantu — Authority: 110
  Designing innovative coastal protection using ecosystem-based approaches By Peter Todd Increasing urbanisation in Singapore has resulted in extensive replacement of natural habitats with man-made habitats. A good example is the artificial seawall, that has becomes a ubiquitous feature of the coastline. Being ...
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• LinkedIn Finally Opens Platform: The Good & Bad News

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
  [IMG: http://www.family-learning-center.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b5d93_imgLinkedIn.jpg]
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• Twitter’s stalled growth could spell bad news for Twitter ecosystem

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 155
  October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from September 2009, while Compete shows a more modest decline of 2.1%. Still, on a ...
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• Reptile Diversity at Desert Tortoise Conservation Center

  
  San Diego Zoo Blogs — Authority: 540
  Long-nosed leopard lizard The Desert Tortoise Conservation Center (DTCC) is located in southwest Las Vegas on a lovely patch of bajada (a broad sloping area of the desert surrounded by mountains). Here in the heart of the Mojave Desert, we are home to many desert tortoises, which are considered a flagship species ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• NewBizNews Conference Videos: Business Models and Q & A

  
  News Innovation — Authority: 422
  At the New Business Models for (Local) News Conference on November 11, Jennifer McFadden (business analyst for the Knight Foundation-funded CUNY Project) and Jeff Mignon and Nancy Wang of Mignon Media present business models for hyperlocal sites and a new metro news organization. CUNY Graduate School of Journalism ...
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• Forever is a very long time indeed

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 135
  Market Designer: a grave problem of-supply and demand Wanna rent an apartment – forever? Grave sites, once sold and occupied, are intended to be occupied for a very long time, and their sale can’t easily be negotiated if more valuable uses turn up. So there is less turnouver than in other kinds of real estate, ...
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• Oldest Living Thing

  
  LINKMOKO — Authority: 465
  Pine (tree), a common name for a medium-size family of trees, mostly evergreen, of widespread distribution in the temperate areas of the northern hemisphere, and for its representative genus. The family, which contains about 210 species placed in 10 genera, has enormous economic importance as a source of timber and ...
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• VIDEO: Explorers census thousands of unique ocean species between edge of darkness and black abyss

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 119
  More via PhysOrg.com On the Net: Census of Marine Life :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Posted in Animals, Biology, Environment, Nature, New Species, Research, Science, Video, Wilderness Tagged: Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean Biodiversity, Biogeography of ...
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