je.st
news
Tag: biodiversity
FAO Says Food Waste Harms Climate, Water, Land, and Biodiversity
2013-09-20 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Worldwatch Institute: The world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food annuallya third of all the food thats producedaccording to a report published last week by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This waste not only results in major economic loss, but also causes significant harm to the natural resources that we rely on for food production. It also has moral implications, given that an estimated 870 million people go to bed hungry every night. he report, Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural...
Food Waste Harms Climate, Water, Land and Biodiversity
2013-09-13 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - The waste of a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year is not only causing major economic losses but also wreaking significant harm on the natural resources that humanity relies upon to feed itself, says a new FAO report.
Global Biodiversity Maps Show Species Health Down to Local Level
2013-06-28 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: U.S. researchers have published a series of data-rich maps that identify the worlds conservation priority hotspots with a level of detail they say is 100 times finer than previous assessments. Using the latest data on more than 21,000 species of mammals, amphibians, and birds, the maps produced by North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers provide a snapshot of biodiversity health at a 10-kilometer-by-10-kilometer scale, comparable to the geographic scale at which critical conservation decisions...
Biodiversity report fails climate change test
2013-06-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WAtoday: The final report of a cross-party inquiry into Australia's biodiversity and climate change produced only "weak and ineffective" recommendations and was a missed opportunity to act, the Australian Conservation Foundation said. The House of Representatives Standing Committee inquiry report, tabled on Monday, called for extending grants periods to as long as a decade to ensure continuity in research, and proposed the Council of Australian Governments consider national accounting of biodiversity, among...
Tags: report
change
test
fails
Canada's vast boreal forest a biodiversity hotspot
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you missed it and forgot to send a card -- as did I -- Wednesday was the International Day for Biodiversity. What's biodiversity? Ask most people, and they think it's related to the number of species in a particular area. The more species, the more biodiversity. So, naturally, they think of places like the Amazon as being biodiversity strongholds. But a report from the Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited begs to differ. They think other characteristics -- concentrations...
Tags: forest
vast
biodiversity
hotspot
Sites : [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] next »