Bhubaneswar, Jan 31 (ANI): Eminent agricultural scientist M.S Swaminathan has organized a workshop with an objective to sensitise the locals and farmers about the conservation of biodiversity here on Saturday. The workshop was conducted in the Orissa University of...
Business leaders increasingly worried about biodiversity loss, UN-backed report finds
United Nations
United Nations
Biodiversity Loss a Significant Business Risk
Environmental Leader
Environmental Leader
The loss of biodiversity through the extinction of species poses a significant risk to business profits, according to a recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to the survey, The Economics of Ecosystems and...
UN report rues biodiversity loss
The Hindu
The Hindu
Special Correspondent Thiruvananthapuram: The world is heading towards environmental disaster as countries fail to achieve the target for a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010....
Biodiversity Inches Up on Corporate Agenda
The New York Times
The New York Times
More and more companies are making noteworthy efforts to minimize damage to the environment from their activities, according to a report on business and biodiversity issued on Tuesday. The report said that Walmart, for...
Senior Researcher Suspicious Of Biodiversity Protocol
Peace FM Online
Peace FM Online
A Senior Researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, has observed that the new global agreement intended to protect the biodiversity of developing nations from unfair exploitation could do...
Ride the Green Wave in the International Year of Biodiversity
The Examiner
The Examiner
In the Garden Catherine Al-Meten If you like this ... International Year of Biodiversity...Time to nurture our ecosystems International Human Rights Day: Embrace Diversity, End Discrimination View all »...
Key to tropical biodiversity
The Hindu
The Hindu
The tropics owe their stunning biodiversity to consistent year-round temperatures, not higher temperatures or more sunlight, according to a novel survey of insect diversity at different latitudes and at different points...
Conservation Project Addresses Biodiversity Challenges
All Africa
All Africa
The Namibian Coast Conservation and...
School green clubs to take up biodiversity mapping
The Hindu
The Hindu
Staff Reporter KOCHI: Come August, the 'green cadets' in nearly 250 schools across Ernakulam district will join hands in a unique mission aimed at protecting nature....
'Big business needs biodiversity' says UN
The Guardian
The Guardian
UN analysts will present a report showing that environmental damage, such as BP's Deepwater Horizon spill, is bad for business at a symposium this week. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Modern businesses are "soulless...
Temperature Constancy Key To Tropical Biodiversity
redOrbit
redOrbit
New paper answers longstanding scientific question about cause of tropics' stunning biodiversity The tropics owe their stunning biodiversity to consistent year-round temperatures, not higher temperatures or more...



