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Young artists from around the world are lending their support to global efforts to combat climate change through Paint for the Planet, an exhibit and auction of children's art in New York.

A new online database that will allow scientists to arm-chair environmentalists monitor the world’s national parks and protected areas was launched on 6 October, 2008, at the 5th World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.

A new Memorandum of Understanding to conserve the West African Manatee and Small Whales in Western Africa and Macaronesia was concluded in Lomé, Togo, under the auspices of UNEP’s Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) on October 7, 2008.

UNEP Uses Google Earth to Put You in Cockpit of New Eco-Monitoring Service People can “fly” to some of the world’s most dramatic environmental hotspots courtesy of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)’s innovative use of the popular mapping tool Google Earth.

A new project worth $26.45 million has been launched by  the  Global  Environment  Facility  (GEF)  to  better  protect  bees,  bats and birds that are essential to the world’s crop production.                                                    

Agua Muisne is a non-profit corporation founded in 2007 by a group of Americans and Ecuadorians who are concerned about the many people who are put in grave danger by bad drinking water.

The whole world is celebrating the International Year of the Reef 2008 (IYOR) (www.iyor.org), and this summer you can learn about coral reefs in Broward County, Florida.

Commercially-promising advances inventions, innovations and ideas inspired by the natural world and its close to 4-billion year-old history of “research and development” are at the centre of a new collaborative initiative called Nature’s 100 Best unveiled at the Ninth Conference of Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity, 19-30 May.

The ubiquity of tiny particles of minerals--mineral nanoparticles--in oceans and rivers, atmosphere and soils, and in living cells are providing scientists with new ways of understanding Earth's workings. Our planet's physical, chemical, and biological processes are influenced or driven by the properties of these minerals.