Crisis in Biological News

Advice to the new administration: UM foreign and domestic policy guide

... The domestic policy brief on the financial crisis calls for additional federal spending to help ... and his national security adviser. The financial crisis will limit spending. Jacques Gansler, ... the while recognizing that the nation's financial crisis will reduce discretionary defense funding and ...

Extended cyclone relief efforts aided from space

... workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone ... 'the Charter', for support by providing immediate crisis mapping of the affected areas. Following the ... France and the German Centre for satellite-based crisis information (ZKI) of DLR to join their mapping ...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... California 94583, USA. Pages 719-722. The most extreme biological crisis on Earth, the end-Permian mass extinction, is recorded in terrestrial ... unique opportunity to study, in close vicinity, impacts of the end-Permian crisis across an environmental spectrum. Geological and archaeological ...

CI president receives Roger Tory Peterson Medal

... 5, 2009. Titled "Conserving the World's Biodiversity: How the Climate crisis Could Both Hurt and Help," the lecture examined how climate change may ... largest remaining lemur species on Madagascar. He detailed the extinction crisis that threatens the planet, and how climate change exacerbates existing ...

Saving the economy and saving the planet

... against human-induced climate change is urgent and the current financial crisis could prove a timely opportunity. He says: "The need for a global fiscal ... at full capacity." The lecture is the last in the Global Financial crisis series hosted by the Economic and Social Research Council, which has ...

Stanford scientists find new solutions for the arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia

... working with policymakers and government officials to prevent the health crisis from escalating. "The real thing is, how do we help the people who are ... that replenishes from the surface," Fendorf said. Solutions to the crisis Understanding the area's hydrology will allow developers to ...

Wildlife biologist named Roger Tory Peterson Medal recipient, speaker

... his lecture titled "Conserving the World's Biodiversity: How the Climate crisis Could Both Hurt and Help," Mittermeier will discuss the major extinction crisis facing the planet, as well as the management and conservation strategies ...

Resilience in an aging society: GSA showcases cutting-edge meeting topics

... with the exception of Tuesday's congressional briefing.) Financial crisis 2008: Implications for Aging Monday, November 24, at 3 p.m. Location: ... intended to help attendees better understand the impact of the financial crisis on America's seniors. The session will be moderated by Harry "Rick" Moody, ...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results

... there is uncertainty relative to how long the capital market/credit crisis will last and to what degree its impact will effect IT spending in the ... their needs for both revenue growth and expense reduction and that the crisis may well accelerate the adoption of electronic signature solutions in the ...

NASA scientist James Hansen to speak at July 11 conference on 'Rejuvenating Public Sector Science'

... the first to focus global attention on the growing urgency of the climate crisis when he testified before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1988. Dr. Hansen ... include: Beyond the Phony "Debate": Government Science and the Climate crisis Curbing Industry Influence over Regulatory Science Protecting Public ...

EPFL Research Day 2008, in the presence of Al Gore

... challenges of our time," said Patrick Aebischer. "Solving the climate crisis will require the efforts of business, finance, governments and ... human activity and the environment. As Al Gore reminds us, the climate crisis is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our ...

December GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

... global carbon cycle occurred as two episodes during the PermianTriassic crisis Shuceng Xie et al., China University of Geosciencess, Key Laboratory of ... impact. The temporal sequence of these two events suggests that the biotic crisis was a consequence of prolonged and episodic changes in the marine and ...

Aware, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... to rapid technological change; we face intense competition from a wide range of competitors; current economic conditions, including the credit crisis affecting the financial markets; our intellectual property is subject to limited protection; our ability to obtain or enforce patents could be ...

Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger

... complemented by the Danforth Center's cassava team, the full vision for the Global Harvest Alliance began to take shape. "Effective solutions to the crisis of childhood malnutrition must involve interventions spanning a diverse spectrum of disciplines including health care, agriculture and home ....

Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?

... found in fish and flax seed oils, breakages could be substantially reduced. Dr Tarlton said: "The EU ruling represents an impending welfare crisis in which millions more laying hens may suffer bone breakage or fractures in the UK each year. "Fractures vary in severity and often result in ...

New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

... Graph/Chart) II-3 Solid-State and Advanced Lasers Eat into the Share of Gas Lasers II-4 Laser Industry Feels the Heat of Global Financial crisis II-4 Industrial Applications II-4 Lasers in Research and Development II-5 Biomedical Market for Lasers, Set to Fall II-5 ...

New theory gives more precise estimates of large-scale biodiversity

... to save species facing habitat loss, but also estimates of the impact of global warming, Harte said. "Quantifying the magnitude of the extinction crisis involves estimating the richness of life in different habitats," he said. "The new theory is probably going to reduce the direness of the predictions ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009

... oil Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Scientists in Canada and India are proposing a surprising new solution to the global energy crisis "milking" oil from the tiny, single-cell algae known as diatoms, renowned for their intricate, beautifully sculpted shells that resemble fine ...

Mars mission could ease Earth's energy supply crisis

... our neighbour Mars, but could also deliver enormous benefits here on Earth. The new research is a direct solution to our worsening energy supply crisis and is a great example of the seamless interaction of pure and applied science with engineering to solve real world environmental and commercial ...

FAO/IAEA Symposium to address animal production and health

... Audio clips are available to download: David Nabarro, the UN System Coordinator on Avian and Human Influenza and the Global Food Security crisis describes the implications of animal diseases on human health. Download Audio: David Nabarro Gerrit Viljoen, the head, of the Animal ...

Aware, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... to rapid technological change; we face intense competition from a wide range of competitors; current economic conditions, including the credit crisis affecting the financial markets; our intellectual property is subject to limited protection; our ability to obtain or enforce patents could be ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 20, 2009

... . http://www.ustream.tv/channel/acslive . Must-reads from C&EN: Drug firms take a hit in first quarter The world-wide economic crisis took a toll on drug companies in the first quarter of 2009. In an industry used to healthy, single-digit growth rates, the statistics were not good. ...

Scientists work to plug microorganisms into the energy grid

... The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and cyanobacteria, to fungi and ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009

... 300 million people throughout the Chinese countryside do not have access to a safe source of water. The country's government is responding to this crisis with plans to spend billions of dollars over the next few years building new water treatment facilities, with help from major international companies ...

Scientists urge global action to preserve water supplies for billions worldwide

... in Society in Kyoto, Japan, taking place in October. Additionally, the University of Cambridge will continue the discussion of the global water crisis when it hosts in September a companion workshop focused on African water problems. Research performed at Scripps and at other research centers ...

Scientists urge world leaders to respond cooperatively to Pacific Ocean threats

... climate change. "This is first time the scientific community has come together in a single voice to express urgency over the environmental crisis facing the Pacific Ocean," said Meg Caldwell, executive director of the Center for Ocean Solutions, who will present the statement on Wednesday, May ...

Aware, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... to rapid technological change; we face intense competition from a wide range of competitors; current economic conditions, including the credit crisis affecting the financial markets; our intellectual property is subject to limited protection; our ability to obtain or enforce patents could be ...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- April 29, 2009

... News Homeowners throughout the nation are complaining of stinky odors, copper pipe and wire corrosion, and respiratory problems in an ongoing crisis that officials say is linked to drywall imported from China. An article on this topic is scheduled for the May 4 issue of Chemical & Engineering ...

Ma and Pa solutions to global warming

... three problems without facing up to the others will not provide a lasting solution and could make matters worse. In fact the US is facing a single crisis brought on by an overall design defect in the modern industrial machine, he adds. Farmers can siphon stuff from nature's life cycle better than ...

April 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... and their impacts on available dietary resources. Elevated delta-13C and delta-18O values in Mediterranean sirenians during the Messinian Salinity crisis corroborate the hypothesis of ecophenotypic dwarfing in these animals. Seismic and geodetic evidence for extensive, long-lived fault damage ...

Living long, living well

... Waltham, Mass.How does inflammation, brought on by stress, affect aging? What can we do to avert the looming public health and economic crisis of an epidemic of neurologic diseases caused by a rapidly expanding elderly population? How do older adults manage to keep a rosy outlook in the face ...

BIO-key to Respond in Court to a Lawsuit Filed by Two Investors

... of losses and limited revenue, our ability to develop new products and evolve existing ones, the impact on our business of the recent financial crisis in the global capital markets and negative global economic trends, and our ability to attract and retain key personnel. For a more complete ...

Communication Intelligence Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Results

... of their processes in the face of increased regulatory and compliance demands exacerbated by the recent subprime debt and credit crisis. This crisis is driving increased regulatory controls and the need to administer the billions of bailout dollars to settle troubled mortgages and the Company ...

GEN reports on Madoff scandal's impact on the life sciences

... which are expected to decrease. Other organizations and companies that commented in the GEN article on Madoff and the current economic crisis include the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Epigenomics, VentureEdge, Crystal Cove Capital, Foley Hoag, Bentley University, Ernst & Young, ...

Fighting global warming offers growth and development opportunities

... new technology and to lower other indirect taxes, ensuring the fiscal neutrality of these measures", says Barker. "The current global financial crisis must be seen as a timely stimulus to tackling climate change, not a hindrance. If all G20 countries adopted a Green New Deal similar to that proposed ...

Tigers get a stimulus plan

... taken by the governments of the countries where tigers live." "The struggle to prevent tigers from going extinct is emblematic of the monumental crisis facing biodiversity globally. We are determined to contribute to the protection of the tigers with this new initiative, but we will also start ...

BIO-key(R) Reports Profitability for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008

... of losses and limited revenue, our ability to develop new products and evolve existing ones, the impact on our business of the recent financial crisis in the global capital markets and negative global economic trends, and our ability to attract and retain key personnel. For a more complete ...

Decisive action needed as warming predictions worsen, says expert

... a wider range of factors and possible climate outcomes. One thing that seems to be certain, however, is that as a society we are facing a climate crisis that is larger and harder to deal with than any of us thought. The sooner we take decisive action, the better our chances are of leaving a ...

Rise or fall of reef fish driven by both economy and ecology

... donors need to help them get out and couple this development with good governance and strong institutions." Cinner noted that the current economic crisis can actually offer a "window of opportunity" for western governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and donors to restructure aid and ...

Biotech scientists team with curators to stem decay of world's art, cultural heritage

... Caracas designed to promote innovative ways to stem the decay of some of humanity's greatest art and cultural treasures. "With the world financial crisis and the advent of climate change effects, there is a state of emergency at the museums of several tropical countries: entire collections are ...