Geographic profiling (GP) was originally developed as a statistical tool in criminology, where it uses the locations of linked crimes (for example murder, rape or arson) to identify the predicted location of the offender's residence. The ...
The law sets up a new forum — the National Green Tribunal (NGT) — to redress and remedy environment-related matters. It is thereby intrinsically linked with the environment, water, forest, air and biodiversity legislations On June 2, India’s Green ...
Slash-and-burn `improves tropical forest biodiversity`Environmental Expert (press release)But, more interestingly, many valuable species had thrived in the slash-and-burn plots, said Laura Snook, one of the study authors and programme director at Bioversity International, which conducts research into agricultural biodiversity for the ...
Senior environment officials, and finance and economic experts from Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore will hold this week a two-day high-level dialogue in Manila on the issues of ecosystem and biodiversity for the region’s
The majestic animals most closely associated with the African savanna — fierce lions, massive elephants, towering giraffes – may be relatively minor players when it comes to shaping the ecosystem.
The king of the savanna appears to be the termite, say ecologists who’ve found that these humble creatures contribute mightily to grassland productivity in central Kenya via a network of uniformly distributed colonies. Termite mounds greatly enhance plant and animal activity at the local level...Read Full Story
The celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd began in the United States in 1970 and was the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson, who had long pondered about finding a way to “put the environment into the political ‘limelight’ once and for all”.This Day is now celebrated in most countries of the world. Earth Day is a perfect time to reflect about what you are doing to help protect the environment. There are many ways that you can celebrate alone and with others.
1.Plant trees. Planting trees...Read Full Story
Diversity is something that we face every moment in every stages of our life. It is a natural gift for us to get rid of monotonous boring activity of life. Human beings are diverse in its nature, feature and character. Society is diverse in its culture but nature is diverse in its creation. And the endless verity of natural diversity is considered as biodiversity in this planet. Whenever wherever you open your eyes in front of greenery you can see different shades of greens that give a...Read Full Story
Atrazine, one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world, has been shown to affect reproduction of fish, according to a new US Geological Survey study.
“Concentrations of atrazine commonly found in agricultural streams and rivers caused reduced reproduction and spawning, as well as tissue abnormalities in laboratory studies with fish,” said USGS scientist Donald Tillitt, the lead author of the study published in Aquatic Toxicology.
Fathead minnows were exposed to atrazine at the...Read Full Story
The United Nations Environment Program met last week in Busan, Republic of Korea, and one outcome of the meeting was the approval of a new panel that will have oversight on the global ecology, much in the same way the climate panel has raised awareness of global warming. The IPBES will act as the ultimate peer review committee of scientific literature related to biodiversity loss in order to compile ‘gold standard’ report to inform government policy.Read Full Story