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  Eco-Lettering
  Lettering artist promotes eco-consciousness
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “biodiversity”

 

• Fish company investigated after salmon farm pollutes Scottish loch

  
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  Marine Harvest, one of the largest fish-farming companies, is under investigation after polluting loch with pesticide . . . → Read More: Fish company investigated after salmon farm pollutes Scottish loch Related Posts: Scottish fish farmers use record amounts of parasite… Freedom Foods ‘failing to ...
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• Amazon clearance for agriculture is ‘economic own goal’ for Brazil

  
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  Economic and agricultural gains could slip into reverse due to the loss of forests environmental services, study shows . . . → Read More: Amazon clearance for agriculture is ‘economic own goal’ for Brazil Related Posts: Brazil plans Amazon tree census to assess deforestation Amazon deforestation ...
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• News Analysis: The Hidden World of Soil Under Our Feet

  
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  Scientists are working hard to understand the life that teems within our soil and that is threatened by farming and development.        
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• How to DNA sex birds.

  
  Te Papa's Blog — Authority: 126
  The males and females of many bird species are difficult to distinguish by their appearance (peacocks are a notable exception). There are many situations where it is useful to know the sex of birds including captive breeding programmes, behavioural studies and even species delimitation in extinct taxa. DNA sexing ...
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• Rep. Collin Peterson: GMO’s are good for you!

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 134
  In 2003, dozens of scientists from around the world joined us in ISIS to form the Independent Science Panel, and produced a report,The Case for A GM-Free Sustainable World [4], documenting all the problems and hazards of GM crops as well as the successes and benefits of non-GM sustainable agriculture. The report was ...
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• Time-lapse video of the entire planet’s surface at 30m resolution, going back to 1984

  
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  Google has just release a most remarkable visual history. Using 30 years worth of Landsat satellite imagery, they have basically created a time-lapse video of the entire planet’s surface at 30m resolution, going back to 1984. Recall that in 1984 the global population was roughly 4.7 billion — an enormous ...
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• Scientist at Work Blog: Rummaging Among Skins and Skulls

  
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  Sometimes you have to leave the forest for the museum — boxes with slow loris skeletons have as much to tell as the trees.        
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• Tonle Sap Visit Finds Little Evidence of Once-Abundant Species

  
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  CIs Les Kaufman shares his latest thoughts from Cambodia.
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• Engaging with the opposition

  
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  I had a somewhat entertaining conversation last night with my aunt’s neighbors and good friends, who happen to be Fox News programmed conservatives. I don’t go around picking fights with people with differing political views, and most of the time I won’t even be baited into it. But these guys were pretty ...
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• ILRI PhotoBlog — ‘Livestock Portraits’: Sheko cattle in Ethiopia

  
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  Sheko calf kept in the Ghibe Valley of Southern Ethiopia (photo credit: Jim Richardson) The above photo, taken by National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson , is of a Sheko calf kept in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko cattle breed is endangered, with only about 2,500 in existence today. They ...
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• Move over Quinine

  
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  Photo Credit: Discover Forests provide many life supporting services to individuals living in tropical countries, but public health is not often considered one of them. In fact, for many years the best way to fight malaria was thought to be the destruction of the tropical forests and swamps that sheltered ...
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• Ecosystem Damages in Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 141
  US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics / by Wesley R. Brooks and Stephen C. Newbold http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/WPNumber/2013-02 The impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems are among the key reasons for concern about climate change. Integrated assessment models are the main tools used to ...
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• Returning to the wild!

  
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  It’s a very exciting time in Vietnam! After being confiscated from the wildlife trade in 2010, the first of the Sunda pangolins held at the Carnivore and Pangolins Conservation Program (CPCP) has been released into Cat Tien National Park. EDGE Fellow Phuong, tells us more… As you will remember, my EDGE ...
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• New study shows importance of IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems

  
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  IUCN 8 Mat 13;A new global standard in assessing environmental risk, the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems, has been trialled on 20 ecosystems spanning six continents and three oceans."By knowing which ecosystems are tracking well and which ones are in trouble, governments, industries and local communities will be ...
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• Judging the Impact of Introduced Species

  
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  Sometimes ‘the hunted’ adapt to the introduction of a new predator better than competing hunters. A clear example is the lace monitor, which competes with the fox for the same food resources. Photo: Wikipedia The impact an introduced species can have on Australian native animals should take into account possible ...
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• Meeting review: UNU-IAS public symposium on indicators of resilience in SEPLS

  
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  Public Symposium held on Indicators of Resilience in SEPLS Satoyama Initiative release , 1 May 2013 YOKOHAMA, JAPAN: Held on 22 April 2013 at the UNU-IAS, and focusing on the resilience of the world’s socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS), this symposium featured speakers from Bioversity ...
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• This week in review … IPBES stakeholder meeting urged to include local knowledge

  
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  Global biodiversity panel urged to heed local voices SciDev.Net , 3 May 2013 PARIS, FRANCE: A stakeholder meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was held from 29-30 April 2013 in Paris, France. A key issue that emerged was how to involve voices from ...
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• This week in review … Consultation opens on WIN scoping paper

  
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  Help build an enduring World Indigenous Network (WIN): Community consultation is now open! WIN Conference release , 5 May 2013 DARWIN, AUSTRALIA: The WIN International Reference Group and the WIN Secretariat have drafted a scoping paper which suggests a structure for the future of the WIN and asks a series of ...
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• The Social Darwinist roots of Chinese mediocrity and amorality

  
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  Yeah, we know -- the Chinese have a higher average IQ and lower propensity toward violence than blacks or Hispanics. Real high standard to hold the non-whites to -- are you more tolerable as neighbors than the average black/Hispanic.East Asian mediocrity looks like a puzzle, then, given their higher test scores. And ...
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• Wild growth alone wont make Singapore a global eco-city

  
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  Straits Times Forum 8 May 13;DR HO Hua Chew ("Wild greenery makes Spore a global eco-city"; last Wednesday) says the unprotected natural greenery in Singapore is mostly secondary forest.His definition is flawed. Scrubland, even those with scattered tall trees, are not forests. Similarly, clumps of old trees at Bukit ...
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