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ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity
The world's biodiversity is vanishing at an unprecedented rate ?around 100 species every day ?due to factors such as land use change and pollution. Addressing this threat, world governments agreed through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity to reduce significantly the current rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. To support this initiative, ESA has kicked off its new DIVERSITY project. . Biodi...
Study shows dramatic increase in Caesarean sections
The report, published in the prestigious international journal, the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that the rise could not be explained by increases in clinical reasons for caesareans such as complications in pregnancy or labour/delivery and was more likely due to societal factors. . .. Report author, Colleen O'Leary, from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Resea...