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Controversy dogs sickle cell drug promise

The progress of a promising herbal-based drug for sickle cell anaemia could be under threat as the companies involved are surrounded by allegations of corruption. SciDev.Net reports in a special news article. Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 1 July 2008 at 10:24am — No Comments

7 journalism trainer jobs in Sierra Leone and DRC

Here is some information about jobs for journalism trainers in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is Canada’s largest international media development organization. JHR is currently seeking 4 Journalism Trainers and 1 Senior Trainer to work with local media Sierra Leone for 7 months. JHR is also seeking 2 Senior Trainers to work with local media in Kinshasa, DRC for 8 months. All positions start in mid-October. For more information and how to a… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 30 June 2008 at 5:05pm — No Comments

Index Insurance- can it help reduce poverty?

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Swiss Re are jointly hosting a high-level policy roundtable on the use of index insurance for poverty reduction at this year's…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 23 June 2008 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Index Insurance- can it help reduce poverty?

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society and Swiss Re are jointly hosting a high-level policy roundtable on the use of index insurance for poverty reduction at this year's…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 23 June 2008 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Pod-ready: Podcasting for the developing world

Though still in its infancy, the digital audio medium of podcasting is giving the people of developing nations a voice. Katherine Nightingale reports in this SciDev.Net feature. Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 23 June 2008 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Apply now! Deadline for Climate Change Media Workshop for Southeast Asian Journalists approaching

Reporting Climate Change: Creating a Climate of Change in Southeast Asia The application for the Climate Change Media Workshop is fast approaching with deadline set on June 30, 2008. The workshop will be held on August 12-13, 2008 in Manila, Philippines. All interested journalists from Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, as well as from China and Bangladesh are encouraged to send their application before the deadline. The Philippine Science Journalists Association,… Continue

Posted by Imelda Abano on 16 June 2008 at 5:55am — 1 Comment

Nature Inc.: Putting a Price on the Priceless

New documentary series NATURE INC. explores the economic value of biodiversity. Airing first on BBC World News Friday 13thJune 19.30 GMT. On 13 June 2008, a new TV series goes to air on BBC World News on the economic value of biodiversity and the services that ecosystems provide to the global economy. According to one estimate it could be as much as $60 trillion – more than the total value of global GDP. In the first six episodes of the series, Nature Inc. reports on: how the honeybee populat… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 13 June 2008 at 3:23pm — No Comments

IAI Newsletter - Communicating Science

Hello all! The new issue of the IAI Newsletter is out. In this newsletter, scientists from IAI programs, their partners in society and journalists provide their experiences and views on the communication processes between science and society. You can read it at: http://www.iai.int/files/communications/newsletter/2008/issue_1_2008.pdf Continue

Posted by Ione Anderson on 13 June 2008 at 2:07pm — No Comments

Science Communication Through Cultural Events !

The biggest challenge in public understanding of science programmes in India is how to inculcate interest in science amongst Indian common masses who are mostly villagers.Still not very familiar with modern means of communication they are not able to grasp often the higher modes of science communication.A breakthrough in this regard is achieved with the efforts of National Council of Science and Technology Communication[NCSTC] ,Department of Science and Technology [DST] ,Government of India[GIO]… Continue

Posted by Dr.Arvind Mishra on 12 June 2008 at 7:01pm — 3 Comments

Call for applicants: IDRC–SciDev.Net Science Journalism Award 2008

SciDev.Net proudly announces its second joint IDRC–SciDev.Net Science Journalism Award and seeks applications from journalists in all developing countries. The award consists of a six-month internship giving the recipient invaluable journalistic experience and demonstrates SciDev.Net’s commitment to build capacity in science communication across the developing world. We invite all English-speaking journalists with an interest in science reporting and its impact on decision-makers in developing… Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 11 June 2008 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Summer Institute on Climate Information for Public Health

Fourteen professionals from nine countries are hard at work learning ways to use climate knowledge to make better decisions for health-care planning and control of climate sensitive diseases such as malaria and meningitis. They are participants of the…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 11 June 2008 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Small is beautiful: Nobel laureate YT Lee

Taiwan is emerging as one of the centres for research and development. Yuan Tseh Lee is one of those scientist who have returned back to Taiwan in order to set up a research centre. Here is an excerpt of an interview during his visit to NAST.. CJ: D.B.Kattel , 1 day ago Views:300 Comments:0 YUAN TSEH Lee is a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry with other scientists DR Herschbach and JC Polanyi in 1986. He was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan on November 19, 1936. After receiving the Nobel Prize in 1… Continue

Posted by Dambaru Ballab Kattel on 10 June 2008 at 11:39am — No Comments

Uganda Conference for Science Communication 2008 (2nd Announcement

2ND ANNOUNCEMENT UGANDA CONFERENCE FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION 2008 Theme: Talking the Science We All Live The Uganda Science Journalists Association (USJA) in collaboration with the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) is organizing “the Uganda Conference for Science Communication 2008” to be held at Imperial Royale Hotel – Kampala from November 23rd to 26th, 2008. The conference will bring together over 500 journalists, scientists, researchers, science communicators and… Continue

Posted by William Odinga Balikuddembe on 7 June 2008 at 1:17pm — No Comments

Biofuels boom risks increasing landlessness among world's poor

The global biofuels boom risks harming poor people in poor countries by forcing them off land they depend on, says a report published today (2 June) by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. But the report adds that biofuels are not all bad, and shows that their production can also allow poor groups to increase their access to land and improve their livelihoods if the right policies are in place. The report comes as worl… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 2 June 2008 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Agricultural water management and climate risk

Feasible investments in agricultural water management are likely to bring the greatest livelihood benefit to the rural poor of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia if they are part of a comprehensive approach to managing climate risk, according to a new report from the International Research Institute for Climate and Soci…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 30 May 2008 at 12:33am — No Comments

World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 - website launched

The World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 - which will take place in London - has a new website: http://www.wcsj2009.org/ Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 19 May 2008 at 12:13pm — 3 Comments

Myanmar is burning but we can do very little to help?

By Owino Owuor Gabriel The response of the governments of Myanmar to the disasters that has invaded their people this month is disastrous. This criminally installed government by military force in 1988 has refused to open up for the world to see the destruction wrecked by Cyclone Nargis and has blocked foreign aid workers and has controlled the delivery of supplies of food and medicine. This military regime remains adamant, and even as another cyclone causes ravage on the devastated Irrawaddy d… Continue

Posted by Owino Owuor Gabriel on 18 May 2008 at 10:17am — No Comments

Climate Change Media Workshop for Southeast Asian Journalists extended until JUNE 30,2008

Application EXTENDED UNTIL JUNE 30, 2008 Reporting Climate Change: Creating a Climate of Change in Southeast Asia Open: May 13, 2008 Deadline: JUNE 30,2008 Location: Manila, Philippines Countries: Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, as well as from China and Bangladesh Workshop Date: early AUGUST 2008 The Philippine Science Journalists Association, Inc. (PsciJourn), with support from the International Development Research Ce… Continue

Posted by Imelda Abano on 14 May 2008 at 3:30am — No Comments

Side events at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Bonn

Here are some detailed of side events that the International Institute for Environment and Development is involved in at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Bonn this month. For more details about the conference and side event venues, see: http://www.cbd.int/cop9/side-events/?mtg=COP-09 AFFIRMING LIFE AND DIVERSITY: RURAL IMAGES AND VOICES ON BIO-CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND FOOD SOVEREIGN… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 13 May 2008 at 12:44pm — No Comments

Making food systems work for people and planet

With food hitting the headlines like never before, the International Institute for Environment and Development has launched a web-based publication that describes how to rethink food production and distribution for environmental and social gain. Towards Food Sovereignty is an online book with linked video and audio files, whose first three chapters are now freely available at IIED’s website. “Rising food prices and fears that biofuel production will reduce the availability of food are forcing… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 6 May 2008 at 1:03pm — No Comments

Avina awards for sustainable-development journalism in Latin America

Registrations have opened for the Second Edition of AVINA Awards of Investigative Journalism for Sustainable Development in Latin America. More information here: Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 6 May 2008 at 10:40am — No Comments

Reuters-IUCN Environmental Media Awards

The Reuters – IUCN Media Awards is a worldwide competition in environmental journalism to recognise excellence in professional reporting on environmental and sustainable development issues; and foster a dialogue between journalists and experts to encourage informative reporting based on sound scientific data. The Awards are open to journalists in print and online news services throughout the world. Journalists are invited to submit entries related to environment and sustainable development. Th… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 29 April 2008 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Using climate information to help combat malaria

Malaria affects between 300 and 500 million people every year, according to the WHO. It causes two percent of all deaths worldwide--among them 3,000 children a day, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. Complications from malaria, such as severe anemia, account for at least a million additional deaths. Most of the countries wher…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 25 April 2008 at 9:33pm — No Comments

WASH Media Award

Some of you may be interested in applying for this award. WASH Media Award The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and SIWI are co-sponsoring the second edition of the WASH Media Award competition, to be held between July 2007 and April 2008. This competition is open to journalists in developing countries who publish or broadcast original investigative reports on issues relating to water supply, sanitation or hygiene in their countries. Journalists can each submit up to… Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 23 April 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

The Earth, our lovely Mother

The Earth is just like our own mother. She raised me up, feeding me and telling me what should I do. Some times is not eassy to conduct what our mother asked us to do or not do? Now she is getting old. Her skin is not smooth anymore, her beauty was fading away but she stills the wise and lovely mother. I give my tribute and respect to her has done to me and to all brother and sister. Let us give our love to mother of earth. Happy Earth Day, April, 22-2008 Maria Continue

Posted by maria d. andriana on 22 April 2008 at 6:33am — No Comments

Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/opinon/07/krugman.html By PAUL KRUGMAN, Op-Ed Columnist Published: April 7, 2008 These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there's another world crisis under way — and it's hurting a lot more people. I'm talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even… Continue

Posted by Swati Bute on 19 April 2008 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Rethinking agriculture research to meet people's needs

People in Africa, Latin America and South and West Asia will have their say about the future of food and farming under a major project that aims to make agricultural research better at serving people's needs. The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) initiative comes as a landmark intergovernmental report finds that agriculture must be more ecological and locally relevant to protect soils, biodiversity and livelihoods worldwide. IIED's work will complement and build on… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 16 April 2008 at 11:03am — No Comments

Global Climate Change: Taking the Battle to the Campus

Richard Levin YaleGlobal, 26 February 2007 NEW HAVEN: We are at last awakening to the reality of global climate change. The report this month by the worldwide team of scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that global warming is unequivocal and that most of the warming over the last half century is likely due to greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. No previous report of the respected panel, which was formed in 1988, has been so conclusive. There is less cert… Continue

Posted by Swati Bute on 15 April 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments

Forests and Climate Change

posted on behalf of Budhy Kristanty at the CIFOR media unit (B.KRISTANTY@CGIAR.ORG) Forests and Climate Change at Asia Pacific Forestry Week National Convention Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 08:30-12:00 (room 313) Forests are high on the agenda of any future climate strategy, both as a means of sequestering carbon, and of reducing the vulnerability of forest-dependent communities. This event will provide the platform to raise key issues in relation to these two prim… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 13 April 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Uganda Conference for Science Communication 2008

posted on behalf of William Odinga Balikuddembe (wbodinga@hotmail.com) UGANDA CONFERENCE FOR SCIENCE COMMUNICATION 2008 Theme: Talking the Science We All Live 1.0 Introduction: The Uganda Science Journalists Association (USJA) is organizing a science communication conference as one of its activities aimed at developing science communication in Uganda. The conference, to be held in November 2008, will bring together over 500 journalists, scientists, researchers and communication… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 11 April 2008 at 2:52pm — No Comments

Biodiversity for Poverty Reduction Day at CBD CoP9 - call for proposals

The IIED-facilitated Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) together with the CBD Secretariat and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) will host a one day meeting on Saturday 24 May, during the ninth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to review experience to date in linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction - in policy and in practice. The event is intended to help build links between conservation and development communit… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 11 April 2008 at 12:17pm — No Comments

Introducing the 'Dying Voices of Gongs' novel

A new novel is coming from the stable of a writer ,telling a tale of the Niger Delta experience;a people who live in a community that is ravished with poverty despite the oil and gas wealth in the area. The ''DYING VOICES of GONGS'. depicts Niger Delta; the centre of the oil and gas rich region,of Nigeria that has suffered ill -environmental practices,unemployment for the youths,poor educational facilities and lack of infrastructural development. The author, Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo, through… Continue

Posted by Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo on 8 April 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Snakes are beautiful !

I recently visited my native place -a nondescript place in rural eastern UTTAR PRDESH ,India .One day there was a lot of noise,hustle bustle outside my home and when I inquired I found some people were busy in fishing out a snake from its burrow. I have been reading 'Snakes Of India' by P J Deoras ,late herpetologist from India.SO I got genuinely interested in identification of the snake.And the poor fellow came out to be a non poison Wolf snake but even then the villagers were adamant to kill t… Continue

Posted by priyesha mishra on 8 April 2008 at 11:11am — 2 Comments

Today is World Health Day

The theme of this year's World Health Day, is "protecting health from climate change". In support of this, the IRI helped convene more than 70 high level experts from public health agencies, private institutions and corporations to brainstorm ways to o…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 7 April 2008 at 3:21pm — 2 Comments

IRI News mailing list for journalists

All, I recently put together an "News" mailing list for people who want to keep tabs on the work we do at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, and I invite you to sign up if you're interested. As a subscriber, you will receive an email alert each time we post a new home-page feature about our research. I keep hoping this will occur every two weeks, but in reality it's more like every three. That same email will list upcoming IRI-related events, seminars and publications.… Continue

Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 1 April 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Asia-Pacific Forestry Week

The first-ever Asia-Pacific Forestry Week will bring together more than 500 key forestry officials and specialists from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research institutions, regional and international networks, UN agencies and the private sector. It presents a unique… Continue

Posted by Regan Suzuki on 1 April 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

COMMUNITY ELECTORATES' APATHY

The chairmanship and councillorship elections in Rivers state that held on the 29th March 2008, was characterized by a peaceful conduct of the electorates.This is not to say that there were no attempts by some people to hijack the exercise.There were early disturbances that were intended to discourage the larger body of electorates.But these panick situations were only visible in some local government councils. One other major snag was the delay in the distribution of materials which were dispa… Continue

Posted by Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo on 30 March 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

SciDev.Net spotlight on antibiotic resistance in the developing world

Are antibiotics becoming a 'non-sustainable' drug supply? With increasing resistance to existing antibiotics ― and little incentive for pharmaceutical companies to invest in new ones ― developing countries face a serious challenge combating killer diseases such as tuberculosis and typhoid fever. Read SciDev.Net's new spotlight on antibiotic resistance SciDev.Net's online resource highlights the need to raise public awareness… Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 28 March 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Validating Satellite-based Rainfall estimates in Africa

In many regions of the developing world, there is a scarcity of ground-based measuring stations to record environmental conditions such as rainfall and temperature. These data are desperately needed to inform decision making in agriculture, water resource management, energy generation and other sectors.

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 28 March 2008 at 3:37pm — No Comments

VOTING AT ELECTION EMBOLDENS LOCAL COMMMUNITY PEOPLE

A mixed feeling has heralded the local government elections that is scheduled to hold on 29th March 2008, in the oil rich Rivers State of Niger Delta in Nigeria. This is predicated on the fact that the practice of politics and elections in the past eight years instilled so much fear in the minds of the people who were often scared off polling stations. The monstrous threat deprived them from voting.There were a manifest hijacking of the process.The desparation is hinged on the importance of the… Continue

Posted by Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo on 28 March 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Have you experienced this?

I am very new in health reporting and i must say i am very much surprised by the level of un-cooperativeness by healthcare workers and bureaucracy especially in public institutions and mostly by censorship. Generally i have quickly discovered you cannot write anything negative about a health institution and no one will comment on negative happenings in the healthcare sector. I thought there censorship was predominantly in political reporting but health reporting is shrouded in a lot of secrecy… Continue

Posted by Murugi Murekio on 28 March 2008 at 11:15am — No Comments

Fifth National Conference on Science and Technology

Introduction Nepal Academy of Science and Technology is an autonomous statutory body established with a mandate to work for the promotion and development of science and technology in the country. As an apex body of its kind for Science and technology, it has the statutory obligation in providing a forum for all scientists and technologists working in different intuitions of the country. One of such fora has been the congress of all scientists held usually in the interval of about four ye… Continue

Posted by Dambaru Ballab Kattel on 24 March 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

New SciDev.Net website launched

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new version of the SciDev.Net website, with a fresh appearance and improved navigation. New editorial features include: Topic gateways The website now has six topic gateways, and over 80 sub-topics, making it easier to find information relating to your interests. Topic gateways are as follows: **AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT http://www.scidev.net/agri-env **CLIMATE CHANGE & ENERGY http://www.scidev.net/clima… Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 13 March 2008 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Sustainable benefits: New road to conservation

There has been a tug-of-war in understanding how people can make use of forest resources without harming the environment. Many believe this is fine as long as people are able to make use of the forest wisely and rejuvenate them in return, while others strongly oppose the forests being "touched" when it is supposed to be preserved. Some people in Papua, however, have proved that forest is more than a source of wood, and that other products from forests can benefit those who live nearby. The fo… Continue

Posted by Harry Surjadi on 2 March 2008 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Orchid traders keep ecosystem balanced

Ita Nurita Wanggai proudly displays an ugly but beautiful, rare orchid. "My late husband was the first who introduced this rare orchid. He named it anggrek kribo, meaning frizzy or curly orchid. The petals are just like our wavy hair," she said. It's 77cm stalk has more than five flowers. The sepals and petals are greenish-cream, with abstract red-brown markings all over, except for the edges. The shape of the sepals and petals are wide, twisted, distorted, and curled at the end. People who… Continue

Posted by Harry Surjadi on 2 March 2008 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Tigers and Human, will they live happily ever after in Sumatra?

In his book “The Malay Archipelago,” Alfred Russel Wallace, who spent three month from 18 July to 31 October 1861 in Java Island, wrote about human-tiger conflict. “Three day after my arrival at Wonosalem, my friend Mr Ball came to pay me a visit. He told me that two evenings before, a boy had been killed and eaten by a tiger close to Modjo-agung. He was riding on a cart drawn by bullocks, and was coming about dusk on the main road; and when not half a mile from the village a tiger sprang upon… Continue

Posted by Harry Surjadi on 2 March 2008 at 5:05pm — No Comments

Providing state-of-the-art climate knowledge on Uruguay's agriculture sector

One of IRI’s goals for its work in South America is to bring state-of-the-art climate information into the hands of people and groups who can make immediate use of it. In Uruguay, the IRI has teamed up with the country’s agriculture research institute to develop a comprehensive online resource for farmers, farming cooperatives and policy makers to help t… Continue

Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 28 February 2008 at 7:19pm — 1 Comment

COLLABORATION TO BREAK RURAL POVERTY

The original title of this report is 'Britain urges World Bank reform against poverty in Africa' which appeared on the Guardian Newspaper Nigeria of the 25th, February,2008.I believe that publishing it on this page would provide readers here some information and moral to judge how true commitment to reduce poverty can move the world forward.A renege would do otherwise. Therefore seeking a sharper international focus to fight poverty in Africa, Britain's aid minister has urged World Bank reform… Continue

Posted by Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo on 25 February 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Climate fight must enlist biodiversity and communities

UN-led efforts to address climate change, conserve biodiversity and fight poverty could cancel each other out unless the close links between these global challenges are given more attention, says a paper published today (18 February) by the International Institute for Environment and Development. It warns that many efforts to mitigate climate change have paid scant attention to biodiversity conservation and the world's poor. The paper shows that biodiversity has a key role to play in both adap… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 19 February 2008 at 10:18am — No Comments

UNHEALTHY RURAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS

Health is wealth.Evidences at every turn one takes proves this to be true.A healthy man/woman works with assured strides of steps.Howbeit, such person could not be said to be free of any presence of disease, aches and virus in his body system.But he knows that he is healthy to pursue his daily businesses and catch up with appointments.He is fit to contribute productivitly to the socio-economic growth of the nation. It is this need to ensure the creation of wealth, both on individual, state or n… Continue

Posted by Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo on 18 February 2008 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Nutrition studies in the Lancet

Two studies on nutrition from the International Food Policy Research Institute have been published recently in the Lancet, a leading medical journal. The first study finds that feeding very young children a high-energy, high-protein supplement leads to increased economic productivity in adulthood, especially for men. Boys who received the supplement in the first two years of life earned on average 46 percent higher wages as adults. This study is the first to present direct evidence of the effec… Continue

Posted by Michael Rubinstein on 15 February 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Full tuition scholarships from Columbia U. J-School

Folks: This popped into my inbox yesterday.. thought I'd share... Science Journalists: Apply now for fall 2008! Full tuition scholarships for Columbia University's M.A. program in science journalism The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University is offering an exciting one-year Master of Arts degree program with a specialization in science journalism. Full tuition scholarships are available for the 2008-09 academic year. The science concentration teaches students to study science,… Continue

Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 14 February 2008 at 1:13pm — No Comments

Remembering Aung Suu Kyi.

For the past 11 years, Aung San Suu Kyi, a former elected leader and a Nobel Prize winner, has lived under house arrest in Burma, completely isolated. Suu Kyi won the 1991 peace price because of her calm but passionate advocacy of freedom and democracy in Myanmar. No government has acted adequately to support freedom in Burma and to offer succor to those risking all to bring what has been denied them for nearly 50 years. A few months the authoritarian military regime dismissed the UN's call for… Continue

Posted by Owino Owuor Gabriel on 13 February 2008 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Research on young murderers

Hello all, I'm writing a story about young murderers as the crime rate started to raise in VN together with the rate of economic development. I'm looking for scientific researches about violence among the youth. Is it the result of violent movies, video games and failed education on the youngsters ? By the way, if you are in an emerging country with soaring crime rate, I'd love to hear your opinions about the issue, too. Thank you and best wishes, Continue

Posted by Tran Le Thuy on 13 February 2008 at 5:04pm — 1 Comment

Scholarships for training course in environmental journalism

A German organisation called InWent (Capacity Building International) is offering scholarships for a training course in environmental journalism. The programme is open to journalists who work for print media and who have a special interest in environmental topics. The course is open to candidates from the following countries: Bangladesh, China, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania. Applicants have to: — have a minimum of 4 years of professional experienc… Continue

Posted by MikeShanahan on 12 February 2008 at 10:20am — No Comments

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LAND DEGRADATION, LAND USE DECISION AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON LAND DEGRADATION, LAND USE DECISION AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Science Land degradation affects more than 1900 million hectares of land word-wide, including 65% of the region’s agricultural land. This international event will bring together experts from different fields to facilitate sharing of information on various aspects of land degradation. Land degradation is affecting more than 1900 million hectares of land word-wide, including 65% of the regio… Continue

Posted by Pius Sawa Murefu on 11 February 2008 at 10:19am — No Comments

SciDev.Net feature article: Petrodollar science

Will the Gulf states' investment in science guarantee better research? Waleed Al-Shobakky reports. Continue

Posted by Mun-Keat Looi on 8 February 2008 at 7:02pm — No Comments

View IRI's Africa Data using NASA's 3-D mapping tool

Users of IRI's Malaria Map Room and desert locust monitoring tools for Africa can…

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Posted by Francesco Fiondella on 8 February 2008 at 5:03pm — No Comments

FRAGILE RURAL COMMUNITIES

Rural communities are within the jurisdiction of the local government councils;the third tier of government. The creation is to bring government nearer to the people and facilitate local development of infrastructure and ensure good living. True national development should be one that drives for such growth from the grassroot to the national level. Of course, this makes more sense and practical. The other way would be a lopsided effort that is in futility.

But while this was the essenc…

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Posted by Tamunobarabi Gogo Ibulubo on 6 February 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Linking Population Health and Environment.

Pius Sawa Murefu

Oromia Region-Ethiopia

The number of people, where they live and how they live affect the condition of the environment. People alter…

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