Linking Journalism with the Web of Life
Innovative use of data accessible through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) may help to identify areas of high cultural value, based on plants used in traditional medicine by Aboriginal people in Australia.
The Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase (CMKb), based at Macquarie University, is teaming up with the…
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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
As summer comes to an end, school is just around the corner for children across the United States. For children enrolled in state schools, this typically means the return of unhealthy lunches that are best described as “fast food”: hamburgers, chicken nuggets, fried snacks, and sugary soft drinks. Yet school lunch programs can…
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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
China’s environmental problems remain a cause for global concern as climate change continues to reduce agricultural production and create instability in world food prices, according to…
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We have a group of journalists, and biology students here at National University of Rwanda, trained by Flamingham University through FULBRIGHT program, on making documentary film. We are coming together for a common goal - to raise awareness in rural communities of the importance of conservation.
At the moment we have developed a documentary film project which will undertake to reveal the attitudes of local communities,…
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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.
Women account for 75 percent of the agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa, but the majority of women farmers are living on only $1.25 per day, according to researchers from the Worldwatch Institute.
Despite the challenging circumstances that women in developing countries face, important innovations in…
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New project will help European cities reduce their ecological footprint.
A new million euros project on urban biodiversity and ecosystem services aims to address significant scientific knowledge gaps on the role of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services for human well-being.…
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