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Biodiversity Defined
Refers to the variety and variability among living organisms and the ecological complexes in which they occur. Diversity can be defined as the number of different items and their relative frequencies. For biological diversity, these items are organized at many levels, ranging from complete ecosystems to the biochemical structures that are the molecular basis of heredity. Thus, the term encompasses different ecosystems, species, and genes.
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Winning "™em over with clean green
Published September 6, 2008, 6:40 pm, The New Straits Times
THE good news for palm oil is that Malaysian oil palm plantation companies can wear their responsibility on their corporate sleeves and on their products — the “green” certification.
WARC - Engage the powers of destruction urged by international feminist theologians
Published September 6, 2008, 3:56 pm, Worldwide Faith News
Engage the powers of destruction, churches urged by international feminist theologians An international group of feminist theologians has issued a dramatic call to churches to engage the world?s destructive powers, stating it is crucial to hear feminist thinking in the debate on theological issues raised by empire.
IN BRIEF: Ferndale Bridge closure planned
Published September 5, 2008, 8:03 pm, The Tribune-Democrat
The Ferndale Bridge will be closed to vehicular traffic on Monday and Tuesday between 9 p.m. and midnight, PennDOT said. Pedestrian sidewalks will remain open.
Russian delegates to stay in Stevens Point
Published September 5, 2008, 1:27 pm, Stevens Point Journal
Five Russian leaders participating in the Open World Program will spend October 3-11 in Stevens Point examining the theme of our common environment. The Rostov Veliky Stevens Point Sister City Project will host the delegation. While in Stevens Point, the delegates will meet with environmental specialists in local government, at the university, and in the public schools. The visit provides the ...
Is it possible for man to live as His maker desires?
Published September 5, 2008, 10:11 am, Central Chronicle
Should Govts chalk out emergency plan to meet future water crisis? SN Patra: The government is certainly aware of the problem and is addressing it with its meager financial resources. Speaking of emergency plan at the outset it presents a formidable challenge.
Alaminos spearheads Go Organic campaign
Published September 5, 2008, 9:19 am, Yehey!
NON-governmental organizations and the local government of Alaminos have joined forces to help promote organic farming in the country as one of the solutions to the current food crisis happening worldwide.
FACTBOX-What are U.N. Millennium Development Goals?
Published September 4, 2008, 2:01 pm, Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News
Sept 4 (Reuters) - The world's wealthiest countries are reneging on promises to boost development aid, threatening U.N. targets for slashing poverty by 2015, according to a U.N. report released on Thursday.
Peña: Environmental Performance
Published September 4, 2008, 10:12 am, Sun Star
THE 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) of selected countries (the Philippines included) was released early this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The report was made by the Yale Center Environmental Law and Policy and the Columbia University Center for the International Earth Science Information Network.
Potential New Threat For Coral Reefs And Health Of Communities In The Tropics
Published September 4, 2008, 9:21 am, Science Daily
Human activities bear a large part of the responsibility for coral reef degradation. Several threats hang over this complex ecosystem with its extraordinary biodiversity, whether in the form of anthropogenic effluents emitted at certain times or global warming which causes coral bleaching.
Field to Family festival promotes locally grown
Published September 4, 2008, 4:40 am, The Daily Iowan
At the New Pioneer Co-op, a simple cardboard box stuffed with veggies is enough to invigorate employees. Theresa Carbrey leans over the treasure, brought to the administrative offices by a coworker, and picks up curvaceous purple eggplants and little yellow tomatoes. "Look at how they're gleaming, glowing," she murmurs. "They're so alive and fresh."
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- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity -- TEEB
- IUCN: The World Conservation Union
- Asociación Peruana para la Conservación de la Naturaleza - home
- SEPASAL Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Data and Publications: SEPASAL is a major and unique database on useful "wild&quo t; and semi-domestica ted plants of tropical and subtropical drylands, developed and maintained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Encyclopedia of Life
- The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
- Global Invasive Species Database
- World Conservation Forum: Barcelona Octubre 2008
- Environment - Nature & Biodiversity - Biodiversity - Policy
- Accionatura Bosques tropicales
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