environment
The 10th World Congress of EWRA on Water Resources and Environment will be in Athens 5-9 July 2017.
Abstract Submission Deadline Extended
The Organising and Scientific Committee in its meeting on the 31 October 2016 decided to extend the deadline for Abstract...
First it was a frog. Then, catfish. Now, researchers on a major expedition in Bolivia’s Madidi National Park have announced more new species that were, until now, unknown to science. In total, the expedition has uncovered three new frogs, three catfish, and a lizard species.
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A new study in the Journal of Hydrology uses a novel modelling technique that helps scientists understand the effect of evaporation on the expansion of lakes in the inner Tibetan...
The Royal Anthropological Institute will host the conference "Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change" at the British Museum in London, England on 27-29 May 2016, organized in conjunction with the British Museum Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas....
Let’s face it: technological innovation is attractive. It has solved so many of our problems that people have come to view technology as the key to improving society. The world of policy, big business, investment, and venture capital mirrors (and often leads) this perspective. Tech...
Women are leaders, professors, engineers and farmers, they are core to human existence. Women also make up make up significant majorities of the world's poorest populations and produce more than...
Nomination for the much coveted Award, launched by the UIAA in 2013 and sponsored by...
International Women’s Day is March 8, and this year’s theme is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.” So what does gender equality have to do with the environment?
Mounting evidence...
Human migration can be triggered by multiple factors, including political, demographic, economic and social influences. It is widely accepted that environmental change can also drive large populations to migrate to other regions. However, isolating and measuring environment-induced...
Colombia’s constitutional court has passed a ruling prohibiting mining activities in the country’s ‘páramo’ regions (wetlands), overruling any prior contracts approving exploration activities.
The court overruled part of the 2014 national development plan, enabling mining and...
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