Namibia awarded for protecting marine biological diversity
Namibia’s Marine Resources Act has won Silver in the 2012 Future Policy Award. The jury stressed that the Act has served to institute an economically and ecologically viable fishing industry in the African country. The 2012 Future Policy Award highlights exemplary solutions to protect the world’s oceans and is initiated by the World Future Council, [...]
Regulating Geoengineering Research
Policy and governance concerns are priorities atop geoengineering preference scale for now. The science, though upcoming, is easily overcome by findings of different sort, but dealing with processes & results as policy issues, and control as governance issues appear to be more important since one earth is involved and the biosphere also is. Deployment of [...]
On the eve of Rio+20, a scientific forum sounds the alarm on the state of the planet
Biodiversity in decline, melting glaciers, acidification of the oceans, threatened water resources: most of the environmental indicators on our planet are flashing red. Using the latest data available, participants attending the Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development, to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 11 to 15 June, intend to draw [...]
ECUADOR: Paradigm shift disorder
PSD: A condition afflicting individuals and governments that, once in power, implement policies contrary to the paradigm shift that is vital for the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants, and for which they were elected to implement. Often, it is characterized by demagoguery, hypocrisy and a reverting back to ruinous policies that violate human [...]
American institute grants forensic equipment to Kenya Wildlife agency
The Sackier Institute for Comparative Genomics of the American Museums of Natural History pledged to support the Kenya Wildlife Service’s plans to construct the state-of-the-art forensic and genetic laboratory in Nairobi. The institute has pledged to give equipment worth Sh16 million (US$178,000). Dr. George Amato, the Institute’s director, also pledged to support training, collaborative research, [...]
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