ecology

A lot of useful information on urban forestry!

Cool video showing eco-vigilante Paul Watson's tactics to address sea conservation by directly acting against those who neglect the law.

Quoted: Video of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

I'm so interested in these floating islands in Loktak Lake.

Quoted: THE sangai, or Manipur brow-antlered deer (Cervus eldi eldi), a delicately beautiful animal found only in the hilly north-east Indian state of Manipur, has already had one let-off. In 1951 it was ruled extinct. Happily, a half-dozen were found two years later living on a vast island of floating biomass on Loktak lake, the second-biggest lake in India, to the south-east of Manipur's state capital, Imphal.

Quoted: Within the fence area, scientists have observed a strange phenomenon: above the native vegetation, the sky is rich in rain-producing clouds. But the sky on the farmland side is clear.

This is fascinating. A team of researchers led by Udaysankar Nair and Tom Lyons have proposed three possible explanations.

Excellent article on urbanization in the developing world.

Quoted: ...urbanisation has stabilised in Europe and the Americas with about 75 percent of the population living in urban areas. By comparison, only 35 percent of Africa and Asia's current population is urban. But the developing world is projected to absorb 95 percent of the world's urban growth over the next 20 years...

Quoted: Well-managed landscapes and seascapes are at the basis of sustainable development and human security. They are critical to addressing underlying causes of biodiversity loss, and an essential requirement for meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Quoted: The UN and other international organisations collect large amounts of statistics each year from all over the world...With Globalis, we have made these statistics available in a simpler and more visual format. The tool contains a large database where we have explained and categorised new UN statistics...

In NYC now .. coming soon to a theater near you. If you enjoyed An Inconvenient Truth, you'll want to see this.