Dakar’s modelling workshop: Day 1

Summary of the Day 1: WWF Senegal WAMER: Data collection, analysis; a case-study for the Government. Wetlands International: RAMSAR convention, birds-and-poverty. PBL: MSA-and-modelling, BDs, MSA in use for ecological reporting, policy making process/debates. Kenya: Forestry, cutting, agriculture, trends, deforestation, land conversion, forestry quality; communities; water shade protection and forestry; snow Read more…

BioModel: GLOBIO approaches presentation in Kyiv National University

October 28-29, 2009: The Young Scientists National Conference-2009 took place in biology faculty of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University. Participants presented scientific reports within following sections: botany, environmental protection, ecology, microbiology, virology, plant physiology cytology and histology, developmental biology, zoology, human and animal physiology, pharmacology, biophysics, radiobiology biochemistry, molecular biology, Read more…

Future predictions using MICOM model: Global Climate Change may turn Arctic Ocean into stagnant, polluted soup by 2070

WITHIN 60 years the Arctic Ocean could be a stagnant, polluted soup. Without drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic’s most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming. These dramatic predictions have been made by Yongqi Read more…

IDB: the message from UN

In his IDB message of May 22, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon said: “… The most cost-effective and feasible method of control is prevention. To be successful, this strategy requires collaboration among Governments, economic sectors and non-governmental and international organizations. A country can only prevent invasions Read more…