• 15-minute Voice of America piece on shipping noise and ocean life

    Updated: 2011-08-31 17:20:35
    Aug 29 2011 15-minute Voice of America piece on shipping noise and ocean life Effects of Noise on Wildlife News Ocean Science shipping Add comments Here’s a great fifteen-minute radio feature from Voice of America that digs into the issue of shipping noise and its effects on ocean life . It features Michael Jasny of NRDC , recordings of shipping noise off Vancouver Island , NOAA’s Michael Bahtiarian on their quiet research ships , and Kathy Metcalf of the Chamber of Shipping of . America Give a listen transcript also included at that page link Leave a Reply Name Email not required and not published Website Subscribe to AEInews.org by Email Links Log in Science research programs Sound-related organizations AEI Special Reports AEInews on your website Categories Animal Communication 15 Arts

  • Step Forward | Crowning Achievements in Water Conservation

    Updated: 2011-08-25 10:35:18
    The island Djurgården in central Stockholm as seen from the northeast. Credit: Javier Martin/Creative Commons. Sweden may be famous for such notables as filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, peacemaker Dag Hammarskjöld, IKEA, Absolut Vodka and meatballs, but it’s also at the forefront of tackling the growing global water crisis. Stockholm, the capitol of Sweden – built, by the way, [...]

  • Ecology and Policy Blog now on holiday until 5th September

    Updated: 2011-08-24 17:28:26
    The BES Policy Team is now on holiday until 5th September and the blog will return then.

  • Defra publishes two reports on the valuation of ecosystem services

    Updated: 2011-08-24 17:26:41
    The value of ecosystem services provided by the UK’s wildlife and habitats has been estimated in two research reports published by Defra today. These two primary valuation research studies examine benefits people obtain from the natural environment in the UK. Using expert judgement and participatory valuation approaches, the study ‘Economic valuation of the benefits of ecosystem [...]

  • The Birth of Hurricane Irene

    Updated: 2011-08-23 03:32:48
    The GOES-13 animation above, from Aug. 19, 2011, through Aug. 22, 2011, (1545 UTC/11: 45 a.m. EDT) shows the progression of Tropical Storm Harvey through the western Caribbean Sea and to the east, the birth of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 20. Over the weekend, Harvey made landfall in Belize and on Monday [...]

  • Eco-Roundup | 08.21.11

    Updated: 2011-08-21 22:05:54
    How Indonesia Hurt Its Climate Change Project Reuters: In July 2010, U.S. investor Todd Lemons and Russian energy giant Gazprom believed they were just weeks from winning final approval for a landmark forest preservation project in Indonesia. A year later, the project is close to collapse, a casualty of labyrinthine Indonesian bureaucracy, opaque laws and a secretive [...]

  • Step Forward | Carbon Offsets Mitigate CO2 Emissions: Good Carbon and Good Karma

    Updated: 2011-08-18 12:18:32
    Carbon offsets that support renewable energy or methane capture tend to have immediate impact, whereas mitigation through reforestation or changes in land-use tend to be long-term. Photo: Creative Commons / Mafalda Moreira Santos Recently the Ecology Global Network spoke of carbon footprints: a way of assessing the amount of greenhouse gasses released into the environment by [...]

  • Implementation of IPBES

    Updated: 2011-08-15 12:03:25
    The creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) was one of the most significant actions to come out of the 10th Conference Of Parties to the Convention of Biological Diversity held in Nagoya, Japan. The IPBES is a panel based in part on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It [...]

  • Rebuilding Biodiversity – IEEM Annual Conference

    Updated: 2011-08-15 10:33:09
    Booking is now open for the IEEM Annual Conference, which will take place from 2 – 3 November 2011, in Liverpool. The theme of the meeting is ‘rebuilding biodiversity’ and sessions will cover the strategic and practical approaches to conserving and rebuilding biodiversity in the UK. The conference will paint the ‘European picture’; examine current biodiversity [...]

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