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Biodiversity
Loss - It Will Make You Sick
"Sustaining Life" Identifies Huge Losses to Medical Science
from the Decline and Extinction of the World's Nature-Based Assets.
A new generation of antibiotics, new treatments for thinning bone
disease and kidney failure, and new cancer treatments may all stand
to be lost unless the world acts to reverse the present alarming
rate of biodiversity loss a new landmark book says. The natural
world holds secrets to the development of new kinds of safer and
more powerful pain-killers; treatments for a leading cause of blindness-
macular degeneration- and possibly ways of re-growing lost tissues
and organs by, for example studying newts and salamanders.
UNEP- News centre. Publicated: 24-4-2008 |
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Between
man and nature, an approach for the sustainable relations
Edited by MAB programme, UNESCO.
Year: 2008
For more than thirty years, the program on Man and the biosphere
(MAB), especially through the world network of biosphere reserves,
carries out and supports studies on the interactions between human
societies and natural resources in different cultural and socioeconomic
contexts. The plurality of the objectives of the biosphere reserves,
and the diversity of ecological, economic, social and cultural situations
of the world network, turns them into research and training laboratories
for the conservation and the sustainable use of biodiversity. The
Division of ecological sciences and the Earth, through its intergovernmental
MAB program, wishes to contribute to the challenges of the management
of biodiversity, in multiple uses, with a sustainable development
objective.
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A
bad year for Caribbean corals
The years 1998 and 2005 were the two most damaging years for coral
reefs in recorded history. They were also the world’s hottest
years since records began in 1880. About 16% of the world’s
reefs were lost to coral bleaching in the Indian Ocean and Western
Pacific in 1998. Seven years on, unusually warm waters caused even
worse coral bleaching, this time in the Caribbean where it was also
a record year for hurricanes. Some of these hurricanes nevertheless
had a silver lining: although they caused extensive damage, they also
helped to save many corals by ‘taking the heat off them.’
UNESCO. Natural Sciences. Newsletter Vol.
6 Nº 2 page 20. Publicated: 11-4-2008
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Data
Requirements for Integrated Urban Water Management
T.
Fletcher et A. Deletic éd. Collection eaux urbaines.
ISBN: 978-92-3-104059-7
Year: 2008
Integrated urban water management relies on data allowing us to analyse,
understand and predict the behaviour of the individual water cycle
components and their interactions. The concomitant monitoring of the
complex of urban water system elements makes it possible to grasp
the entirety of relations among the various components of the urban
water cycle and so develop a holistic approach to solving urban water
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Aquatic
Habitats in Sustainable Urban Water Management - Science, Policy and
Practice
Edited by Iwona Wagner, Jiri Marsalek and Pascal
Breil
ISBN: 978-92-3-104062-7
Year: 2008
Following from the Sixth Phase of UNESCO’s International Hydrological
Programme (2002-2007), the Urban Water Series - UNESCO-IHP addresses
fundamental issues related to the role of water in cities and the
effects of urbanization on the hydrological cycle and water resources.
Focusing on the development of integrated approaches to sustainable
urban water management, the Series should inform the work of urban
water management practitioners, policy-makers and educators throughout
the world... |
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An
international centre for karst research in China
One billion people in 40 countries live in areas characterized by
karst formation, a geological process which creates porous landscapes
requiring extremely careful management. A new UNESCO centre in Guilin
(China) will study environmental problems common to these fragile
landscapes, such as desertification, pollution of groundwater, the
collapse of land, flooding and droughts. The International Research
Centre on Karst officially became a category II centre under the
auspices of UNESCO on 11 February, with the signing of an agreement
by UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura and Wang
Shouxiang, Vice-Minister of Land and Resources of the People’s
Republic of China.
UNESCO. Natural Sciences. Newsletter Vol.
6 Nº 2 page 13. Publicated: 11-4-2008
Biosphere
reserves have a roadmap for next six years
The third World Congress of UNESCO’s biosphere reserves wound
up on 9 February in Madrid (Spain) with the adoption of an Action
Plan and a Declaration stressing the role of biosphere reserves
as places ‘for investments and innovation to mitigate and
adapt to
climate change [and] to promote the greater use of renewable energy.’...
UNESCO. Natural Sciences. Newsletter Vol.
6 Nº 2 page 12. Publicated: 11-4-2008
------------------------ Newsletter Nº 26
CVA
Monthly e-News: April Conservation Volunteers e-News
Conservation Volunteers e-News is the monthly email newsletter that
is filled with information about upcoming conservation projects,
nature holidays, opportunities to volunteer overseas and special
offers.
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA).
Australia. Publicated: 8-4-2008
Record
Glacier Thinning Means No Time to Waste on Agreeing New International
Climate Regime
The world's glaciers are continuing to melt away with the latest
official figures showing record losses, the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP) announced today. Data from close to 30 reference glaciers
in nine mountain ranges indicate that between the years 2004-2005
and 2005-2006 the average rate of melting and thinning more than
doubled. The findings come from the World Glacier Monitoring Service
(WGMS), a centre based at the University of Zurich in Switzerland
and that is supported by UNEP...
UNEP. News Centre. Publicated: 16-03-2008 |
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