Payment News (Free subscription) | yesterday
CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) and the IFC (International Finance Corporation) at the World Bank has published a new white paper titled "Developing Mobile Money Ecosystems" by Beth Jenkins. "This report draws heavily on the experience of participants in the inaugural GSMA Mobile Money Summit, co-sponsored by IFC, CGAP, and the UK Department for International Development, held May 14-15,...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
By Donatantonio, Domenic Biodiversity has seen minimal improvement through planning policy guidance and is a bureaucratic burden for councils, a select committee has been told.
Docuticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Report Finds Sharks Critical to Maintaining Healthy Oceans Source: Oceana A new report released by Oceana today concludes that sharks are invaluable to maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems. Predators as Prey: Why Healthy Oceans Need Sharks shows that as shark populations decline, the oceans suffer unpredictable and devastating consequences. Sharks have unfortunately fallen victim to the man-hungry...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Please help support farmworkers, consumers, residents and the ecosystem all together at once by sending a letter to demand that the EPA ban the application of known toxin endosulfan pesticide from farms.
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today, PETA sent an urgent letter to H. Dale Hall, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), urging him to reverse a USFWS decision to allow two tigers from a small, unaccredited zoo in Mebane, N.C., to be sent to Iraq's beleaguered Baghdad Zoo--a facility which has been repeatedly under fire and where animals have been killed and left to starve. PETA has also posted an action alert on...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | yesterday
Elizabeth Larson in the Capital Press (“The West’s Ag Website) reports on a proposed solutions for a troubled delta in California : A new report says building a peripheral canal offers the best - and least expensive - strategy in solving both ecosystem and water supply issues in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a conclusion being greeted by enthusiasm by some policy makers and sharp criticisms by...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
A spate of reports on the Bay-Delta prompted five Democratic members of Congress to reiterate their calls for prompt and aggressive steps to protect the health of the Bay-Delta ecosystem, restore the state's salmon fisheries, and avoid being sidetracked by the politically divisive peripheral canal proposal advocated in one recent report.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Excerpt from report by privately-owned Kyrgyz AKIpress news agency website Bishkek, 25 July: Sixty per cent of trees (or wood) illegally felled in Kyrgyzstan are used for preparing firewood, the head of the department for forest ecosystems under the Kyrgyz state agency for the protection of the environment and forestry, Askat Kysanov, told a news conference in Bishkek today.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Exploring Africa -- Ecosystems, Development, and History
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Five Bay-Delta area Democrats responded to a spate of reports on the California Delta by reiterating their calls for "prompt and aggressive steps" to protect the health of the Bay-Delta ecosystem and restore the state's salmon fisheries, as advocated in reports released by Environmental Defense and the Natural Resources Defense Council on Wednesday and Thursday. They also took aim at the controversial...
damncoolpics (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
It seams to be one of the few paradises on earth, where still exists an important biodiversity with rich and distinct flora and fauna: 37% of Socotra’s 825 plant species, 90% of its reptile species and 95% of its land snail species do not occur anywhere else in the world. I hope they can keep it that way!
ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
A new report released by Oceana today concludes that sharks are invaluable to maintaining healthy ocean ecosystems. Predators as Prey: Why Healthy Oceans Need Sharks shows that as shark populations decline, the oceans suffer unpredictable and devastating consequences.
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Microsoft will sponsor the project and will help to fund development. The move could bring about greater interoperability between Microsoft technologies and the Apache ecosystem. Read More...
The Lay Scientist (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Hat tip to godless liberal Kate from The Radula for this one - Come and find out what type of fish you are, in aid of the WWF's Wave Forward campaign to promote sustainable fishing. Our ocean ecosystems in many regions are in a pretty bad way due to the combined impacts of climate change, pollution and overfishing, and this WWF campaign is one that I'll be following with interest. read more
EarthPortal (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Even the largest coral reef and the biggest coral colony start life as a diminutive pelagic larva, and the choices that such larvae make with regards to where they settle have consequences that cascade through the entire reef ecosystem.
The 3 the latest comments published by users on Biodiversity :
nitesh | 05/27/2008
The $2 trillion ecosystem of hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance providers will be spending tens of billions of dollars over the next five years on telecommunications services. Rising healthcare industry costs and a shortage of skilled staff have created a lucrative opportunity for technology and service providers, as hospitals and other front-line healthcare providers look...
rupali | 02/18/2008
Bharatbook.com, is proud to announce a free report excerpt, table of contents, and ordering information online at " Telecom, IT, & Healthcare: Wireless, Wireline & Digital Healthcare 2008 - 2013 " ( http://www.bharatbook.com/detail.asp?id=71442 ) The $2 trillion ecosystem of hospitals, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance providers will be spending tens of billions of dollars over the...
legionofmarduk | 02/14/2008
Taking advantage of the recent interest in typical cultivars and the environmental issue of biodiversity and its defense the Communal administration of Borghetto Vara in the interior of Eastern Liguria teamed up with the Province of La Spezia to rediscover and promote an unique kind of legume: the black "peselli" growing in the Vara valley...
