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The Deal on Organic Food Versus the Rest

August 11th, 2009

Most readers will be aware that a recent report commissioned and funded by the UK Food Standards Agency has found that organic food is not nutritionally better than conventionally-produced food. The study was a review of literature pertaining to the subject Read more…

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Restoration Based Environmental Markets

August 9th, 2009

Do They Work? What are these markets?
Ecological restoration is an activity that ideally results in the return of an ecosystem to an undisturbed state. Ecosystem services are the benefits humans derive from ecosystems. Read more…

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Heat-tolerant Coral Reefs Discovered

August 4th, 2009

Coral reefs May Survive Global Warming. Leading Experts say that more than half of the world’s coral reefs could disappear in the next 50 years, in large part because of higher ocean temperatures caused by climate change. But now Stanford University (USA) scientists Read more…

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Hope for Polluted Ecosystems

August 4th, 2009

Most polluted or damaged ecosystems worldwide can recover within a lifetime if societies commit to their cleanup or restoration, according to an analysis of 240 independent studies by researchers at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Read more…

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