Biodiversity
Biodiversity
New Web-Tool Shows Critical Migratory Waterbird Sites Need Urgent Protection
Innovative website, launched to support international conservation efforts for migratory waterbirds, shows key wetlands across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia need protection now. The new "Critical Site Network (CSN)" Tool provides comprehensive information on 294 waterbird species from 3,020 sites. It is designed to make information easily available on the most important sites for migratory waterbirds, both at the national and international level.
Jun 14, 2010, 11:02
Biodiversity
Breakthrough in International Year of Biodiversity, as Governments Give Green Light to New ‘Gold Standard’ Science Policy Body
Bridging the Gap between Research and Urgent Need for Responses To Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Losses:
History was made on June 11, 2010, in the southern,South
Korean port city of Busan, when Governments gave the green light to an Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
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Jun 12, 2010, 17:10
Biodiversity
Long-Distance Larvae Speed to New Undersea Vent Homes
Working in a rare, "natural seafloor laboratory" of hydrothermal vents that had just been rocked by a volcanic eruption, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and other institutions have discovered what they believe is an undersea superhighway.
Apr 15, 2010, 15:46
Biodiversity
UN Blue Helmets to Airlift Nine Orphan Gorillas to DR Congo Nature Reserve
Nine orphan gorillas will start new lives in a nature reserve in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), thanks to assistance from peacekeepers serving with the United Nations mission in the country, known as MONUC. UN blue helmets will airlift three young primates from Goma, in North Kivu province, and six adolescents from neighboring Rwanda, to Kasugho, near the Tayna Nature Reserve.
Apr 1, 2010, 15:48
Biodiversity
More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlling Ocean Nitrogen Shares the Throne: Novel species found to be more widely distributed in world's seas
Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms are the key to the productivity of the oceans. Growth of microbes at the base of the food chain is dependent on nutrients like nitrogen, in the same way that agriculture on land depends on such nutrients. Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget. New research results reported on-line on February 25, 2010 in a paper in Science Express show that Trichodesmium may have to share its nitrogen-fixing throne: two others of its kind, small spherical species of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria called UCYN-A and Crocosphaera watsonii, are also abundant in the oceans.
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Feb 27, 2010, 16:32
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