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Like Madagascar's rain forests, the country's National Forest Seed Bank (SNGF) in Antananarivo looks to be losing the battle against human encroachment. Engulfed by the capital's urban sprawl, the SNGF's small, scruffy patch of land has row upon row of seedlings, some of them species facing...
OEB’s scope is no less than the tens of millions of species that inhabit this planet, and its questions concern no less than their origin, evolution and preservation. Pellegrino University Professor E.O. Wilson—one of the pioneers of biodiversity studies—advanced his now...
Liscow hopes to study environmental policy and biodiversity conservation at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, and later work on environmental policy for the Fish and Wildlife Service’s international division.
Whatever the roots of the problem, the clamor is now everywhere--and the workplace may be the worst place of all. At least 20% of U.S. workers do their jobs in environments that could endanger their hearing, according to NIOSH. The U.S. government estimates that more than 90% of coal...
Since its founding in 1990, when the competition was called Ecolympics (it was renamed Green Cup two years later), HGCI has focused mainly on measuring recycling and the energy conservation habits of each House from one year to the next.