For the International Year of Biodiversity 2010, SWISSAID is focusing on the importance of biodiversity and species diversity. Diversity is under threat. The world’s food supply is already resting on alarmingly narrow foundations:
globally, just 15 plant
EU backs U.N. climate report despite skepticism
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.N. climate scientists attacked by skeptics after they published an erroneous global warming forecast won support Monday from European Union environment ministers
Elephant Research in Kenya Washed
Away by Floods
Flash floods have washed away a major scientific research centre used to study Africa's wild elephants.This morning, flooding of the Ewaso Ng'iro River destroyed the research facility and associated camp
Co2 High Despite Economic Slow Down
OSLO (Reuters) - Levels of the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have risen to new highs in 2010 despite an economic slowdown in many nations that braked industrial output, data showed on Monday
