Stimulus Funds Support VA Energy Conservation Efforts
WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of a clean-energy transformation, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is targeting nearly one-quarter of its $1.4 billion in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to investments in clean energy generation and energy conserva...Beetles drive groundbreaking conservation project
They are cursed the world over for contaminating food supplies and are a huge commercial pest, but the humble flour beetle is about to play a significant role in the management of endangered species. The flour beetle or Tribolium castaneum will be the model in a major new study into the con...Genaera Corporation Implements Cash Conservation Plan
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genaera Corporation (Nasdaq: GENR ) today announced that it will implement a plan to conserve existing cash resources in order to maintain the ability to pursue business development strategies for trodusquemine (MSI-1436), the first-in-cl...Bradmer implements cash conservation plan
- Company suspends patient enrollment and contract manufacturing activities - TSX: BMR TORONTO, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BMR.TSX), today announced that it will implement a restructuring plan to conserve existing cash resources. The plan is ...China Animal Welfare Law Under Review While 36,000 Dogs Culled
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... Agency biologists will play key role in national effort probing for answers By Joe Kosack Wildlife conservation Education Specialist Pennsylvania Game Commission NOTE: Photos to accompany the following article are available from the Game Commission's websi...Game Commission Announces EHD Confirmed in Fayette County
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A Wildlife Conservation Society research intern working in the wilds of Papua New Guinea has successfully completed what many other field biologists considered "mission impossible"the first study of a rare egg-laying mammal called the long-beaked echidna. The WCS-supported studywhich consisted...Wildlife Conservation Society helps Cameroon create new national park
Gorilla population surveys, conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, have helped the government of Cameroon create a new national park which will protect more than 600 gorillas, along with other threatened species such as chimpanzees, forest elephants, buffaloes, and bongo. Called Deng ...Darwin anniversary heralds new conservation research era for Northern Ireland
On the bicentenary of the birth of eminent biologist today (Thursday) Charles Darwin a new 2m research contract has been launched to conserve and protect Northern Ireland's natural heritage. Queen's University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) have teamed up to form the...Smithsonian scientists receive coveted BBVA Ecology and Conservation Award
Outstanding leaders in tropical biology and conservation, William F. Laurance, senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and Thomas E. Lovejoy, research associate at the Institute and Biodiversity Chair at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Envi...Natural Capital Project to develop conservation software
The Natural Capital Projecta collaboration of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fundhas been awarded a two-year, $1.97 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a software program for mapping and evalu...North American environmental commission launches trinational vaquita conservation plan
Mexicali, Mexico, 28 October 2008 In response to the urgent need to save the vaquita porpoise, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States asked the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to formulate a strategy to support Mexico's efforts to recover the world's most-endangere...Wisconsin ignores Energy Priority Statutes call for conservation and efficiency
Gomer Pyle to the State of Wisconsin: "Citizens Arrest! Citizens Arrest!" Before I discuss the fact that the State of Wisconsin has failed to enforce its own state energy source priority statutes, I probably need to explain the Gomer Pyle joke. For those of you too young to remember and for...Energy conservation might take us farther than renewable fuels
Energy is the biggest challenge in the world, and we have to do something major about its inefficiencies. The problem of energy inefficiencies can be attributed to transportation (27 percent), industry (25 percent), and buildings (48 percent). The breakdown was calculated by the U.S. Energy Info...Sugarcane as a Key Element Against Global Warming to be Highlighted at Green Week in Brussels
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