• California State Parks

    Updated: 2010-02-27 06:41:03
    Something interesting going on with the California State Parks Foundation: In the last several years, California’s state park system has been proposed to be shut down to the public – first in January 2008 and again in May 2009.  These proposals have been eye-opening to all Californians who support their state parks.  Yet often in times of [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.24

    Updated: 2010-02-26 07:20:35
    Shoplifter Win – watch more funny videos

  • Still Water at NetSci2010

    Updated: 2010-02-23 18:52:16
    A network analysis of The Pool will be featured at the Leonardo satellite symposium on Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks at the NetSci2010 conference on 10 May in Boston. This conference, held at the lab founded by renowned network theorist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scientists, artists, and scholars to examine [...]

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    Updated: 2010-02-19 20:05:30
    Sad news. John Thorbjarnarson, Senior Conservation Scientist for WCS and renowned reptile expert, died suddenly early this week. A warm and fitting tribute from his nephew. It is because of men like John that many endangered species still exist on this planet. It is because of men like him that we know that childhood dreams are [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.23

    Updated: 2010-02-19 19:03:15

  • Valuing Natural Capital: Have your Say

    Updated: 2010-02-19 17:08:54
    The Natural Capital Initiative has published an article for comment on the ‘Future Countryside’ website. Future Countryside has been established by the Shadow Environment Secretary, Conservative MP Nick Herbert, to debate new ideas in environment policy. In the article members of the Natural Capital Initiative, a partnership between the Society of Biology, the Centre for [...]

  • Friday Night at the Movies | Bill Gates at TED: Innovating to Zero Carbon Emissions

    Updated: 2010-02-19 14:39:17
    Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, knows something about innovation, technology and success in business. And when he talks, a lot of people engaged in those sectors tend to listen. Now retired from Microsoft and one of the richest persons in the world, he’s also learned something about the plight of the impoverished through his work at [...]

  • Destruction of coral reefs and pristine marine habitats by deep sea trawling

    Updated: 2010-02-19 10:40:24
    A survey of the world’s reefs and sea mounts has revealed that deep-sea trawling is causing widespread destruction of marine habitats. Deep-sea trawlers drag giant nets over the seafloor, destroying habitat over huge areas. Cold water coral reefs in temperate regions are among the most threatened sites; these areas contain pristine habitats with many [...]

  • Almost half of the world’s primate species face extinction

    Updated: 2010-02-18 16:17:21
    A report being launched today at Bristol Zoo shows that 48% of the world’s 634 primate species, which includes apes, monkeys and lemurs, are threatened with extinction. The report, which was compiled by 85 primatologists, highlights the top 25 most endangered primate species, including the golden headed langur, found in north-eastern Vietnam, whose [...]

  • World’s Wind-Power Generating Capacity Grew 31% in 2009

    Updated: 2010-02-17 05:10:01
    According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the world’s wind power capacity grew 31% in 2009, representing a $63 billion (45 billion) investment in new power-generating installations in spite of a sluggish world economy. “The continued rapid growth of wind power despite the financial crisis and economic downturn is testament to the inherent attractiveness of [...]

  • New Eye on the Sun: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

    Updated: 2010-02-15 05:15:46
    NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, promising to provide a new eye on the sun and a better understanding of solar phenomenon. SDO is the first mission in NASA’s Living with a Star (LWS) program, designed to improve our understanding of how the sun’s magnetic field is generated, structured, and [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.22

    Updated: 2010-02-12 22:25:20
    Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What is Missing? Foundation on Vimeo.

  • Is Biodiversity really under pressure? A meeting at the Linnean Society

    Updated: 2010-02-12 18:07:34
    On 11th February the meeting “Is Biodiversity really under pressure?” was held at the Linnean Society. This was a joint meeting between the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and the Linnean Society of London, organised by Dr Peter Bridgewater FLS (JNCC) and Dr Sandy Knapp FLS. The meeting included speeches by guest speakers on five categories [...]

  • Can economics save wild nature? And can wild nature save economics?

    Updated: 2010-02-11 11:15:42
    The concept of monetising biodiversity, generating a ‘net present value’ for a polar bear or a ‘discount rate’ for seasonally dry tropical forest, might fill ecologists and conservationists with dread. Still reeling from the after-effects of the financial crisis, do we really trust the bankers to decide what is a sensible investment in our ecosystems? [...]

  • The More Things Change

    Updated: 2010-02-11 07:10:32
    This morning struck into the region of full goatees–sometimes accompanied by a mustache, but only occasionally. It was odd to come upon this thick crop of an obsolete and uncomely fashion: it was like running suddenly across a forgotten acquaintance whom you had supposed dead for a generation. The goatee extends over a wide extent [...]

  • Communication Vital to Stem Biodiversity Loss

    Updated: 2010-02-10 10:24:38
    David Dickson, Director of SciDev.net, has written a very interesting piece on the network’s website, discussing the importance of effective science communication in stemming the loss of biodiversity. He states that scientists and others working to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change face ‘formidable challenges’ in presuading political leaders and the public to take action. [...]

  • Most downloaded article in MIT’s Leonardo

    Updated: 2010-02-08 11:10:07
    “New Criteria for New Media” topped the list of the most downloaded article from MIT’s Leonardo Journal with 798 downloads as of this writing. This article by Joline Blais, Steve Evans, Jon Ippolito, Owen F. Smith, and Nathan Stormer proposes concrete new academic guidelines for evaluating scholarship in the digital age, and has garnered enormous [...]

  • Friday Insanity 2.21

    Updated: 2010-02-05 18:28:31

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