October 6th, 2008 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 6 (ANI): The worlds nations are showing that they are much more adept at protecting land areas than territorial seas.
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the ...
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May 30th, 2008 - 4:42 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Bonn, May 30 (DPA) Delegates to the UN biodiversity conference here Bonn are haggling over a series of "sticking points" in the final text to be agreed before the conference closes Friday, ...
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May 30th, 2008 - 12:11 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 30 (ANI): An environmental review, headed by an Indian, has concluded that damage to forests, rivers, marine life and other aspects of nature could halve living standards for the ...
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May 29th, 2008 - 9:34 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Bonn (Germany), May 29 (DPA) An economic value needs to be placed on biodiversity loss with the aim of creating appropriate markets and improving efficiency, experts Thursday told a UN biodiversity conference ...
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May 29th, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Berlin, May 29 (Xinhua) Germany has pledged to provide 500 million euros (about $780 million) over the next four years to help in the protection of world's forests and other habitats. This ...
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May 28th, 2008 - 5:59 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Bonn (Germany), May 27 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday urged a key UN conference on preserving biodiversity to take "trailblazing decisions" to halt global species loss. "I am convinced that we ...
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May 27th, 2008 - 9:57 am ICT by admin
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By Edgar Bauer
Bonn, May 27 (DPA) Halfway through a two-week conference in Germany on biodiversity, enough progress has been made to avoid total failure, but much more remains to be done at ...
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May 19th, 2008 - 6:35 pm ICT by admin
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Bonn, May 19 (IANS) The earth is losing four species every hour. The rate of biodiversity loss is now 1,000 times the natural rate. It is in this backdrop that over 5,000 ...
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May 17th, 2008 - 12:05 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Bonn (Germany), May 16 (DPA) A UN conference on bio-safety reached a preliminary agreement Friday on liability for environmental damage arising from the use of genetically modified organisms in farming. The accord ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 4:20 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Geneva, May 16 (Xinhua) Future generations will face hunger, thirst, disease and disaster if people carry on trashing the environment, the World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF) has warned. The stark warning ...
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May 16th, 2008 - 1:53 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 16 (ANI): The latest data on the global biodiversity of vertebrates shows that it has fallen by almost one-third in the last 35 years.
According to a report in New ...
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May 14th, 2008 - 10:40 am ICT by admin
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By Simone Humml
Hamburg, May 14 (DPA) Business concerns in the West often make money by patenting their own medicines and agricultural products based on the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples. A US ...
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April 24th, 2008 - 12:26 am ICT by admin
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By Joydeep Gupta
Singapore, April 23 (IANS) All ulcer patients lost a promising treatment when a frog went extinct. Understanding how bears hibernate can save thousands of people from death by kidney failure, ...
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February 15th, 2008 - 1:03 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, February 15 (ANI): Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has established the worlds largest marine protected area as part of an effort to protect coral reefs and rich fish populations threatened by ...
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December 27th, 2007 - 4:34 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Dec 27 (ANI): A new report has suggested that protecting peatland areas can be a cost-effective way to reduce as much as 10 percent of global greenhouse emissions.
Peatlands are wetland ecosystems ...
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