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SciDev.net, 2012-02-22
Developing countries can only build a green economy by adopting "profound policy reforms" to transform small-scale agriculture, argue Peter Messerli, from the Centre for Development and Environment in Switzerland, and colleagues.
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Inter Press Service News Agency, 2012-02-22
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 22, 2012 (IPS) - How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year.
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United Press International (UPI), 2012-02-22
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a rare fungus not normally found in the wild is killing endangered rattlesnakes in southern Illinois.
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Scientific American, 2012-02-22
And then there was one. The last known Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog (Ecnomiohyla rabborum) now lives by himself at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia after the zoo euthanized the only other member of its species.
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Mongabay.com, 2012-02-22
A pioneering project to reduce deforestation and forest degradation in a former conflict zone in Colombia was recently granted gold certification under the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) standard. The accreditation will help local communities access carbon finance in their efforts to safeguard biologically-rich forests.
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BBC News, 2012-02-22
A new family of caecilians, the most enigmatic branch of the amphibians, has been discovered in northeastern India.
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Mongabay.com, 2012-02-22
Scientists have discovered the first ever insect in the Ripipterygidae family in Belize. Measuring only 5 millimeters (0.19 inches), the tiny insect uses its powerful legs to leap away from predators much like a grasshopper.
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United Press International (UPI), 2012-02-22
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Some of Ireland's oldest mammalian inhabitants are facing serious threats and possible extinction because of foreign species, researchers say.
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Reuters, 2012-02-22
Feb 21 (Reuters) - Ships entering the Great Lakes should be made to kill all the creatures that hitch a ride in their ballast tanks, environmental groups said on Tuesday, challenging as too lax a proposed U.S. government standard to combat invasive species.
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ABC News (Australia), 2012-02-22
Ancient DNA has been used to show the remarkable recovery of King Penguins on Macquarie Island, following their decimation by blubber oil industries last century.
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Science Daily, 2012-02-22
ScienceDaily (Feb. 21, 2012) — Parasites and pathogens infecting humans, pets and farm animals are increasingly being detected in marine mammals such as sea otters, porpoises, harbour seals and killer whales along the Pacific coast of the U.S. and Canada, and better surveillance is required to monitor public health implications, according to a panel of scientific experts from Canada and the United States.
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Inter Press Service News Agency, 2012-02-22
VANCOUVER, Feb 21, 2012 (IPS) - Unless governments work actively to build a brighter future for humanity, climate change, poverty and loss of biodiversity will worsen and continue to exacerbate existing global problems, top scientists warned ministers at the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) governing council meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday.
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Scientific American, 2012-02-21
The distribution of wildlife on Earth is changing with the climate, making conditions more favorable to odd species such as trumpeter swans, beetles, marmots, albatross, killer whales and white-tailed deer
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Science Daily, 2012-02-21
ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2012) — Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species' genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Science Magazine, 2012-02-21
VANCOUVER, CANADA—The Arctic has become the frontline for observing the effects of anthropogenic climate change, from rising ocean temperatures to shrinking sea ice cover
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Inter Press Service News Agency, 2012-02-21
WASHINGTON, Feb 20, 2012 (IPS) - The survival of Sumatra's tigers, elephants, orangutans, rhinos, as well as indigenous communities, is threatened by the "world's fastest deforestation rate", caused by none other than the pulp and paper industry, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
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Bahrain News Agency, 2012-02-21
Manama, Feb. 21. (BNA) – The Kingdom of Bahrain has officially joined "Cartagena Protocol” on Biosafety related to the Convention on Biological Diversity, to become party No. 163 in this Protocol.
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Mongabay.com, 2012-02-21
The height of a forest is important in a number of different ways. First the taller a forest, the more likely there are important niche habitats in the canopy providing homes to unique species.
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Science Daily, 2012-02-21
ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2012) — Aggressive infections in hospitals are an increasing health problem worldwide.
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The Hankyoreh, 2012-02-21
What if, some time in the not-too-distant future, you have to pay a fee to another country to make Oriental medicine or study tai chi? What if South Korea and China wage a battle over who gets the title of “originator”?
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New Scientist, 2012-02-21
A plant that last flowered when woolly mammoths roamed the plains is back in bloom.
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Guardian (UK), 2012-02-21
Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally malign technologies.
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ABC News (Australia), 2012-02-21
Dingoes are definitely native animals, that is if you believe the behaviour of bandicoots, say Australian researchers.
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Physorg, 2012-02-20
One of the UK’s leading voices on ocean acidification has addressed a prestigious conference in Canada with a warning that marine biodiversity is at risk due to the corrosive effects of carbon dioxide.
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Science Daily, 2012-02-20
ScienceDaily (Feb. 19, 2012) — Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species' genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Hankyoreh, 2012-02-20
What if, some time in the not-too-distant future, you have to pay a fee to another country to make Oriental medicine or study tai chi? What if South Korea and China wage a battle over who gets the title of “originator”?
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allAfrica.com, 2012-02-20
Legislators have advised scientists and Ugandans endeavouring to advance biotechnology science for national development to seek Parliament's support in fast-tracking the biotechnology and biosafety law.
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 2012-02-20
THE long-awaited report from the independent scientific audit of Marine Parks in NSW has been released. Chaired by an environmental expert, associate professor Bob Beeton, the audit panel set out to determine if our marine parks strike the right balance between sustainable fishing and conservation.
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Mongabay.com, 2012-02-20
For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job.
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Inter Press Service News Agency, 2012-02-20
KAZIRANGA, India, Feb 18, 2012 (IPS) - While shoot-at-sight orders are now effectively keeping rhinoceros poachers at bay, an aggressive weed is threatening the one-horned ungulate in one of its last retreats - the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in eastern Assam state.
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