NSF and NBC Learn Explore the Future of Water in New Video Series
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NBC Learn (NBC News' educational arm) have teamed up to produce a new informative video series that examines the long-term health of one of America's most important resources: water.
NSF and NBC Learn "Sustainability: Water" Video Series: Photograph courtesy of NSFNational Science Foundation (NSF) and NBC Learn (NBC News' educational arm) have teamed up to produce a new informative video series that examines the long-term health of one of America's most important resources: water.
The Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, a solar-powered hospital situated on the Central Plateau of Haiti, shines as a beacon of hope in this country devastated by years of poverty and malnutrition, ravaged for decades by AIDS, demolished by an earthquake and suffering from cholera.
News Release: NEW HAVEN, CT. Monday, July 1, 2013Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University. These will be sent to thousands of libraries, organizations, and institutions in 138 less-wealthy countries and will be invaluable additions to library materials for use in classrooms and communities, by researchers and government decision-makers. As of June 25, 2013, these resources have been made available in over 1,200 entities across 55 countries.
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Dusk in Port au Prince, Haiti: Photograph by Jay Grahamexpand and improve drinking water services in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti .
How the built environment, the way we build our cities and towns, directly affects our environment and public health is considered in a comprehensive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report released on June 17, 2013. The report and associated resources offer advice on how to reduce environmental and human health impacts of development.
Our Built and Natural Environments Report Provides Guidance to Protect Human Health and the Environment: Photograph courtesy of the U.S. EPA
From its ultra energy-efficient buildings to its campus-wide infrastructure, the U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has built a state-of-the-art "laboratory of the future" to facilitate innovative research, development, and commercialization of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Participants at the NREL Parking Garage Workshop tour NREL's new energy-efficient parking structure,: which is expected to perform 90% better than a standard garage built just to code. Photograph courtesy of NREL by Dennis Schroeder
The U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) relies on a team of sustainability experts to make sure the lab "walks the talk."
Kerstin Forsberg, a 28-year-old marine conservation biologist and campaigner based in Peru, has been awarded the WWF International President’s Award 2013 at a special ceremony during global conservation organization WWF’s Annual Conference on June 11, 2013.
Kerstin Forsberg, a 28-year-old marine conservation biologist and campaigner based in Peru, has been awarded the WWF International President’s Award 2013 at a special ceremony during global conservation organization WWF’s Annual Conference on June 11, 2013.
The government of Mexico has taken a decisive step to save the vaquita - a porpoise threatened by extinction - and to promote sustainable fisheries in the upper Gulf of California for the benefit of fishers and their families, says WWF-Mexico.
The vaquita, a small porpoise endemic to Mexico's Gulf of California, is the world's smallest and most endangered: small marine cetacean. With fewer than 200 left, high levels of entanglement in fishing gear threaten imminent extinction if current trends continue. Vaquitas are so rare that there are few photographs of them alive. Photograph courtesy of WWF © Thomas A. Jefferson
SARS, coronavirus, antibiotic resistant bacteria, Lyme disease, West Nile Virus, lead poisoning, pesticides, disease reservoirs, and environmental conditions are just a few of the concerns and factors addressed in the transdisciplinary “One Health” approaches to enhance prevention and therapeutic care for humans and animals discussed in the book, Human-Animal Medicine: Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and Other Shared Health Risks . This timely, valuable book by Doctors Peter M. Rabinowitz and Lisa A. Conti, along with many other authors, provides insights and guidance while calling for greater cooperation among human health and veterinary care providers.
[img_assist|nid=924|title=Dog washing: Keeping your furry pets healthy includes keeping them clean, as well.|desc=Together, this family was in the process of washing their Labrador retriever outside in the fresh air. The mother, young daughter and son, were soaping down the dog’s coat, while the father was steadying the pet using a leash and his hand. By washing down his coat, chances for the animal to bring contaminants indoors, is highly reduced.
Netafim, a leading provider of drip irrigation worldwide, was named winner of the 2013 Stockholm Industry Water Award. Currently, more than ten million hectares of farmland are irrigated with drip irrigation, a technology pioneered by Netafim that dramatically improves water, energy and labour productivity.
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Netafim, a global leader in drip- and micro-irrigation solutions and water-saving technologies, was founded in Israel in 1965. Netafim today provides equipment and services in over 110 countries that enable farmers to produce more with less water.
Netafim irrigation system being installed
Over the past four decades, Dr. Morgan has invented and advanced low-cost practical solutions to provide access to safe sanitation and clean water for millions of people worldwide. By combining a scientific mind with practical skills and a knack for elegant simplicity, Dr. Morgans designs and ideas provides hope for the more than 780 million people without access to safe water and 2.5 billion people who lack access to adequate sanitation.
On 22 May 2013 the WWF released dozens of photographs and video footage of endangered species captured by camera traps in the mountainous giant panda reserves in China, marking this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity. With the footage, taken since 2011, WWF conservation officers have gained a better understanding of the identification of animal traces and areas of their activities, the study of the impact of human activities on the species and management of nature reserves, according to Jiang.
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) captured in Wang Lang NR, Sichuan. WWF / Peking University: © WWF China/Wang Lang NR/Peking University / WWF-Canon
On 22 May 2013 the WWF released dozens of photographs and video footage of endangered species captured by camera traps in the mountainous giant panda reserves in China, marking this year’s International Day for Biological Diversity.
Scientists find widespread but neglected disease is significant health threat in Botswana
The newest public health threat in Africa, scientists have found, is coming from a previously unknown source: the banded mongoose. Leptospirosis, the disease is called. And the banded mongoose carries it. Leptospirosis is the world's most common illness transmitted to humans by animals. It's a two-phase disease that begins with flu-like symptoms. If untreated, it can cause meningitis, liver damage, pulmonary hemorrhage, renal failure and death.
Banded mongoose troops are radio-collared and tracked across the landscape in Botswana.: Photograph courtesy of B. Fairbanks, Virginia Tech
The newest public health threat in Africa, scientists have found, is the disease leptospirosis, carried by a previously unknown source: the banded mongoose.
“One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.”
“One Health implementation will help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”
One Health Umbrella created by and courtesy of One Health Sweden: Humans, Animals, Environment in collaboration: in collaboration: with One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team
SeaWeb, an international non-profit ocean conservation organization, announced the six finalists of the Marine Photobank’s fifth annual “Ocean In Focus” photography contest on 12 March 2013. The contest aims to illuminate the human-ocean connection and advance ocean conservation through photography.
A baitfish shoal in the Bahamas, ready to retreat to the protection of the mangroves at the first sign of a predator: The photograph of a healthy coastal ecosystem. Ocean in Focus contest continues to uncover the unsavory truths facing the ocean. Photograph by Matthew Potenski Courtesy of Marine Photobank
Peter Brown and Jeremy Schmidt’s book “Water Ethics” proposes “…that we will need to think about water ecologically—as something that binds us together in a shared and interdependent world—and which we must all steward together,” and “… for that the practical wisdom accrued through centuries of different cultural approaches to water management should form the basis for ecologically sound water sharing practices.”
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.
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Published on Feb 12, 2013
Need for Interventions in School W.A.S.H Education andAwareness Creation:
Flooding apart, environmental awareness, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) education and culture this reporter observed at Evbuotubu Primary School is grossly low, a microcosm of the Nigerian rural and sub-urban situation.
What is left of the school compound the children have to use for recreation and urination, etc
Update of June 11, 2013:Packets of multidisciplinary publications and global health DVDs have been received by 53 countries.
The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University, co-directed by Dr. Neva Goodwin, has released an extraordinary collection of publications in the social and environmental sciences and global health and is distributing it for free to universities in 138 nations, with special attention to those institutions that are most in need of library resources.
The Social Science Library project map:: The Social Science Library project will send free research and teaching materials to university libraries, institutions and organizations in the 138 countries shown on this map. The project is seeking Distribution Partners in all of the countries marked in yellow or green.
