Life support services threatened, 700 experts urge more prominence of biodiversity on world agenda
...and the relative importance of biodiversity in the provision of services and the trade-offs involved different conservation and development options," says Prof. Perrings. "People have to decide what to conserve or use, where to conserve or use it, and what mechanisms to use." Coincidentally during the conferen...Overfishing in inland waters reduces biodiversity and threatens health
...degradation and other anthropogenic stressors, and provision of socioeconomic benefits to a broad spectrum of consumers. ...Taxpayer advocacy group says Cures Bill is the right medicine
...t organizations, today praised the research access provision of legislation introduced to establish the American Center for Cures within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Introduced on December 7th by Senators Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Thad Cochran (R-MS), the bipartisan Cures Bill would expedite develop...SNM opposes new payment caps on imaging services detailed in Federal Deficit Reduction Act
SNM opposes a provision of the federal Deficit Reduction Act that impacts its members: payment caps to physicians' offices with imaging equipment that are set to begin in 2007. The five-year, $39 billion budget-cutting bill, which is scheduled to be signed into law Feb. 8 b...Satellites support businesses working for sustainable development
...ngthening European and Canadian capacities for the provision of geo-information services based mainly on Earth Observation data. To find out more about using Earth Observation for CSD assessment and reporting or further opportunities with EOMD, please eomd@esa.int . Back in June 1992 the United Nations Earth ...Truly informed consent must include talking about future fertility, warn experts
...indicate that there is room for improvement in the provision of fertility counselling," said Dr Glaser. Dr Pacey said: "As oncologists become better at curing cancers, the fertility of patients diagnosed in their childhood, adolescent or young adult years is becoming increasingly important. "Advances in assist...'Scent of a woman' tells male redback spiders to find a mate
...productive success. "On the one hand, they want to provision themselves to survive this trip," says Andrade. "On the other hand, they have to develop quickly so that they become sexually mature in time to mate with these virgin females before the females mate with someone else." These are opposing pressures, a...Ultrasounds show mothers' drinking shrinks fetal brain
...etal alcohol exposure in animals and humans. "The provision of feedback on fetal development as revealed in ultrasonography may be a strategy to encourage heavy drinkers to seek treatment during pregnancy," concludes the study. CDC would like to see intervention efforts start even earlier. "The best opportuni...Taxpayer Alliance applauds congressional mandate for NIH public access
...supports the U.S. House Appropriations Committee's provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require its research grantees to submit an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscript to the National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central online archive upon acceptance for public...Stevens, N.J. Sea Grant to host coastal management workshop
... simply monitoring current conditions. Through the provision of the value-added processing, the data have the potential to improve public safety, security, health, commerce, economic opportunities, recreation and other quality of life aspects that we are just beginning to realize. The workshop will discuss ...EMBL-EBI and collaborators win bid to run UK PubMed Central
.... Manchester's expertise in bioinformatics and the provision of on-line bibliographic services will be harnessed towards this end. We have a long history of collaboration with the British Library and the European Bioinformatics Institute in both research and service provision, and we look forward to working wi...New genetic link to cot death identified
...high-risk babies means that health care and social provision can be aimed at the most vulnerable infants. In theory, commercially available and licensed human immune serum could be given to those children most at risk." Dr Drucker, whose previous work has also explained why smoking and sleeping position are ...USGS at The Wildlife Society: From sea-ice change to contaminants to predators and prey
... pine forests managed with growing season fire and provision of unburned areas interspersed within forests will lead to increased survival of bobwhites. James B. Grand, Session 17, Monday, Sept. 25, 9:20 a.m. The Farm Bill and breeding birds: not the same-old, same-old. Numerous studies have demonstrated t...IUFRO conference on forest landscape restoration
...they a measure of restoration success? How can the provision of ecosystem services be optimized? What methods are available for capturing the value of environmental services provided by restoration, in order that payments may be made to underwrite further restoration?) Future Landscapes (What strategies exi...New cost-benefit model will aid efforts to conserve wilderness: UBC researcher
...n; outdoor recreation; crop pollination; and water provision in the California Central Coast an ecoregion that...forests have high values for carbon storage, water provision and recreation, while an agricultural plain like the Salinas Valley provides valuable crop pollinati...Assessing ecosystem services to identify conservation priorities
...on--across the region, and estimated each parcel's provision of each service (following the same protocol used to plan biodiversity conservation) to develop conservation area networks for each service and biodiversity. The spatial distribution of benefits from biodiversity and each of the six ecosystem servi...Conservative forces hampering progress in sexual and reproductive health
...position from conservative groups is hampering the provision of these life-saving strategies in almost all countries. The authors say that overcoming this opposition is the greatest challenge to sexual-health promotion globally and the best example of the detrimental intrusion of politics into public health. ...By 2048 all current fish, seafood species projected to collapse
...ance of water quality by biological filtering, the provision of nursery habitats and the protection of shorelines by marine species. The loss of marine diversity also appeared to increase the risks of beach closures, harmful algal blooms (red tide, for example), oxygen depletion, fish kills and coastal floodin...Report outlines funding to conserve half of Massachusetts's land
...much of the Eastern U.S. and ensure the continuing provision of clean air and clean water from natural systems at a much more reasonable cost than serving these needs with human-engineered systems." Much of the forested land in the Eastern United States was clear-cut in the 17th and 18th centuries for farms ...SNM takes action to alter DRA provision for imaging payment caps
...ian, technologist and scientist members, opposes a provision in the actpayment caps to physicians offices with imaging equipmentthat is set to begin Jan. 1, 2007. The proposed reductions for diagnostic imaging reimbursement fail to recognize the fundamental differences between the costs associated with provi...