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ND-GAIN Prize Winners 2012
This year's winners are Ushahidi, PING, MEDA, and Engineers Without Borders - Austin Chapter! Ushahidi | Crowd Source Technology Platform Ushahidi is a nonprofit tech company that specializes in developing free and open…
Is conservation as we know it going to be enough?
Climate change will present new challenges to achieving ecosystem conservation and sound management of natural resources. Thanks to climate change, some species will increase, others will decrease, and the productivity of ecosystems will shift in ways that are difficult to...
Scientist profiles at LiveScience.com
LiveScience, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, is running a really interesting series that profiles scientists, what they do and why, and how they got to their position today. You can find all of the ScienceLives entries …
2012 Annual Meeting
The 2012 Annual Meeting and Scientific Convening of the Global Adaptation Institute (fromerly GAIN) was a two-day meeting designed to provide growth and networking opportunities to enrich GAIN's mission to increase the world's understanding of the urgent need for adaptation...
Winter warming--some like it hot, others not
A study by Caroline Williams and Brent Sinclair of the University of Western Ontario, together with the Hellmann lab, was just published in PLoS One. The paper reports our findings that winter warming negatively affects overwintering butterflies by increasing their...
Visionary of the land to speak at Notre Dame
Wes Jackson, a visionary and pioneer in sustainable agriculture, will be speaking on campus at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, in Jordan 101. “What is most exciting about Dr. Jackson work is how it benefits both people and nature,”...