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Bayer Releases Sustainability Report

Maintaining sustainable and successful business during the global economic crisis: The newly published Sustainable Development Report 2008 contains information on the strategies pursued and programs implemented by the Bayer Group to achieve this goal

27 May 2009

Extreme Conservation Strategies Being Investigated Due to Rapid Climate Change

Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently as five or 10 years ago. Among these radical strategies currently being considered is so-called "managed relocation."

25 May 2009

World's Largest Protected Marine Park One Step Closer As Coral Sea Becomes a Conservation Zone

What may become the world's largest marine protected area came a step closer today following the announcement by Australia’s environment minister Peter Garrett that the Coral Sea would become a Conservation Zone

19 May 2009

Phosphorus and Nitrogen Both Need to be Managed To Ensure Water Quality

Excess phosphorus and nitrogen produced by human activities on neighboring land is making its way into our coastal waters and degrading both water quality and aquatic life

19 May 2009

Scientists Call For The Inclusion of Indigenous People in Climate Change Monitoring and Policy

Scientists at the Missouri Botanical Garden are calling for the inclusion of indigenous peoples around the world in helping monitor the effects of global climate change and develop policy

12 May 2009

Mammals In Michigan Being Driven North By Climate Change

Some Michigan mammal species are rapidly expanding their ranges northward, apparently in response to climate change, a new study shows. In the process, these historically southern species are replacing their northern counterparts

12 May 2009

RFA Responds to TIME Magazine Article Against Biofuels

In the Renewable Fuels Association’s ongoing effort to let no unsubstantiated claim about ethanol and America’s renewable fuels industry go unanswered, RFA President and CEO Bob Dinneen sent the following letter to the editors of Time Magazine, once again objecting to the unbalanced and factually inaccurate reporting/editorializing on biofuels by Michael Grunwald

12 May 2009

Grasslands Needed To Ensure Sustainable Agriculture

Authors of a new book explain why grassland should be a permanent component of our ecosystem for ensuring the future of sustainable agriculture

12 May 2009

Better BioFuels Is In the Genes

Acquiring cheap genome sequence data can improve the quality of feedstocks used to create biofuels, according to a new study published in The Plant Genome

12 May 2009

Climate Change To Destroy Coral and The Lives of 100 Million People Before the End of the Century

If the world does not take effective action on climate change, coral reefs will disappear from the Coral Triangle by the end of the century, the ability of the region’s coastal environments to feed people will decline by 80 per cent, and the livelihoods of around 100 million people will have been lost or severely impacted

12 May 2009