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Global Integrated Monitoring for the Environment, Public Health, and Disaster Management

June 21st, 2010

Kevin Montgomery [CEO, Intelesense Technologies] Abstract: Never before in the history of mankind has our ability to acquire data about our planet and its inhabitants been so prolific. Data from in-situ sensors deployed worldwide, human-generated data (surveys, land use patterns,   … Read more

Cellulosic ethanol may be better for environment

June 11th, 2010

A new University of Minnesota study has uncovered that cellulosic ethanol may be better for human health as well as help to slow climate change.

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FRANCE 24 Environment – Japanese cloned buffalo

May 4th, 2010

ENVIRONMENT: This week we are going to Japan where a buffalo has been cloned by a researchers team. How Brittany is trying to save energy. Environment priorities of president Obama.

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Climate Change, Migration and Environmental Refugees

April 3rd, 2010

As the science of climate change becomes increasingly well understood, the ramifications of projected increases in temperature, changes to rainfall patterns, rises in sea-level and increase in extreme weather events require attention from policy-makers worldwide. This is particularly apparent in   … Read more

Promotional video for the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) activities

February 10th, 2010

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The quick and the dead: evidence that movement is swiftest in response to events in the environment

February 5th, 2010

Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Wellcome Trust at the University of Birmingham have carried out laboratory gunfights to show that we move faster when we react to something in our environment than   … Read more