• Science is Vital

    Updated: 2010-09-27 17:30:32
    The Campaign for Science and Engineering is championing a grass-roots campaign to save British science in the face of impending spending cuts. Those concerned about the potential cuts to the science budget, with Government Departments currently arguing behind closed doors about their budget allocations in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, can take action through the [...]

  • Start Spreading the News

    Updated: 2010-09-25 17:53:52
    from New York Magazine : Nature is prospering in New York. Yes, the otters, minks, bears, and mountain lions have long since disappeared. But nature as a whole—the ecosystem that is the harbor—never went away. In fact—and this may seem implausible—nature is in many ways more plentiful in New York City than it is in the [...]

  • Lawton Review Published Today

    Updated: 2010-09-24 15:30:57
    Defra has today published the Lawton Review of England’s protected areas and ecological network. Professor Sir John Lawton, who led the review, is a past-President of the BES. From the Defra press release: An independent review of England’s wildlife sites and the connections between them was published today, with recommendations to help achieve a healthy natural environment [...]

  • Seriously?

    Updated: 2010-09-20 22:47:45
    No naming names, but I just read a paper that used Wikipedia as a reference.

  • Wrong in a good way

    Updated: 2010-09-17 18:16:47
    The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2000) predicted that the carbon market, then worth about $300 million annually, would be worth approximately $10 – $44 billion in 2010. By 2008, it was worth $126 billion.

  • Urgent Action Needed to Tackle Non-Native Invasive Species in EU

    Updated: 2010-09-17 01:18:02
    A group of researchers have called for urgent action to be taken to tackle invasive alien species in Europe, as reported on the BBC website (Pamela Rutherford) and this morning’s Today Programme. The researchers, meeting for a conference in Copenhagen, have urged the EU to adopt a Europe-wide policy by next year at the latest, [...]

  • Friday Night at the Movies | The World’s Oldest Living Things

    Updated: 2010-09-10 18:59:30
    For the past five years, artist and photographer Rachel Sussman has traveled around the world documenting organisms that have lived for more than 2,000 years. From 500,000-year-old actinobacteria in the Siberian permafrost and a lone spruce in Sweden, to a 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast and an “underground forest” in South Africa [...]

  • BES Annual Meeting Begins at the University of Leeds

    Updated: 2010-09-06 09:58:29
    The British Ecological Society’s annual meeting begins today at the University of Leeds. The meeting is Europe’s largest gathering of ecologists. Hundreds of scientific papers will be presented at the meeting. Highlights include: The BES Lecture, given by Professor Andrew Watkinson, director of Living with Environmental Change and former director of the Tyndall Centre for [...]

  • Britain’s Carbon Footprint Has Grown since 1990

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:09:02
    Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientist at Defra, will state that Britain’s carbon footprint has grown, not shrunk, since 1990, in a BBC Radio 4 documentary next Monday (6th September). Professor Watson will say that calculations taking into account the carbon embedded in products which Britain imports, from countries such as China and India, reveal that [...]

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