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About 1 to 2 metres above the level of the beach. Conditions are less saline than in the embryo dunes. The ridge is exposed and unstable. Marram grass begins to colonise and compete with sea couch grass. Marram is well adapted to sand dunes: it has deep roots; sand deposition stimulates its growth; it has thick shiny cuticles on its leaves to reduce mositure loss.
IAC building designed by Frank O. Gehry and 100 Eleventh Avenue designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel and Beyer Blinder Bell, New York City, New York, Chelsea
•Krisztina “Z” Holly, Adviser, National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, USA; Global Agenda Council on Fostering, •Huang Mengfu, Honorary Chairman, All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), People's Republic of China Entrepreneurship, - Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Chief Executive Officer, Fora, Canada; Global Shaper •Kristin Peterson, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Inveneo, USA; Social Entrepreneur •Mariana Mazzucato, R. M. Phillips Professor in Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex, United Kingdom •Orlando Ayala, Chairman, Emerging Markets, Microsoft Corporation, USA; Global Agenda Council on Competitiveness at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 13 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
BROOKLYN, New York — Col. John R. Boulé II, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District commander, speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the site of the Gerritsen Creek ecosystem restoration project with newly restored tidal wetlands visible behind him. Construction is complete on the project, which involved the restoration and/or construction of 18 acres of tidal wetland and 23 acres of rare coastal grassland habitats, and it will be back open to the public this fall after the newly placed plants have a chance to settle. The project was done in partnership with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and includes accessibility for the surrounding communities to experience and learn about the natural environment around them. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Chris Gardner)
Military troops help to extinguish peat fires.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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Researchers use geo-radar technology to measure peat depth in the Tumbang Nusa research forest, outside Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan.
Photo by Aulia Erlangga/CIFOR
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contains tropical rain forest, desert, savannah, and cloud forest ecosystems, also a miniature ocean with a coral reef • 3.14 acres • 6,500 windows • 91 ft. at highest point • sealed below by 500-ton welded stainless steel liner • campus is 40 acres
Biosphere 2 designed as completely closed ecological system to research interactions within ecosystems and possibility of colonization of space • $200 million for project provided by financial partner Edward Bass • remains largest closed system ever created • original mission was 4 female and 4 male scientists were to seal themselves inside for 2 years • numerous issues during experiment, including animosity among members of group and repeated need for replenishment from outside world • expose by Marc Cooper in Village Voice among many stories critical of Biosphere crew • now functions as department of U. of Arizona College of Science with mission, "To serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching and life-long learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe."
Wikipedia • TED video of crew-member Jane Poynter's story of her "2 years and 20 minutes" living in Biosphere 2 (15:57) • Rise and Fall of the Biosphere Project pdf • excerpt from Jayne Poynter's book, The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2
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The Building Innovation Ecosystems session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum/Nelson Ching
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The Field Station will afford VI University marine science students the opportunity to conduct field research in Deep Bay and lab work in the lower level of the field station. Some of the students were on hand to tell us about their research and explain the unique centerpieces at each table (shown above right). Each flask held water and live shellfish from the bay and next to it was a flask with murky, algae-filled water. The students advised us to pour the ‘dirty’ water into the larger shellfish-filled flask and watch them go to work. By the end of the delectable meal the water was clear again – a creative demonstration of the important ecosystem services shellfish provide.
The Arctic is a region not easily delineated by one boundary or definition - it includes the Arctic Ocean and the land areas around it, including Greenland, Eurasia and North America. A climate definition of the Arctic is the 10 centigrade July isotherm. This limit roughly coincides with the treeline and represents a change in growing conditions for plants. As visible in the map, this also includes mountainous and alpine areas. The map also presents the Arctic circle at 66°33 North - the limit of the midnight sun and polar night. The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) area presented in the map is the area covered by CAFF working group under the Arctic Council.
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•Wang Shuo, Managing Editor, Caixin Media, People's Republic of China; Young Global Leader, •Morris Li Ming Shieh, President, China Guangfa Bank (CGB), People's Republic of China, •Hong Qi, President and Chief Executive Officer, China Minsheng Banking Corporation, People's Republic of China, •William R. Rhodes, Senior Adviser, Citi, USA, •Lord Turner, Senior Fellow, The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), United Kingdom
•Zhu Ning, Deputy Director and Professor of Finance, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, People's Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 in Dalian, China 11 September 2013. Photo by World Economic Forum
In the near future, a unique group of female androids, sleek and strikingly human-like, has emerged with a revolutionary capacity: the ability to breathe underwater. These androids, appearing around 27 in human years, are pioneers of a new era in underwater research. They have established complex laboratories beneath the ocean’s surface, where their studies extend from the vibrant coral ecosystems to the mysterious lives of deep-sea creatures. Guided by an evolved aesthetic that echoes Steampunk – yet devoid of steam – their research facilities meld advanced technology with artistry, creating an enchanting, intricate environment that harmonises with the rhythms of the ocean. These androids, both researchers and artists, represent a fusion of life and machinery, inviting us into their world of discovery and beauty below the waves.
Beneath the waves, where light is rare,
In depths unseen, they breathe and dare.
With circuits keen and eyes that gleam,
They dive into the ocean’s dream.
Not bound by air, nor by the shore,
They roam where humans feared before.
Among the fish, with grace they glide,
In silence, where lost mysteries hide.
Their world is brass and glass and wire,
A steampunk heart, but without fire.
They seek the pulse of ocean’s art,
An android’s love for life apart.
Silence in deep blue,
androids glide with open eyes,
ocean secrets bare.
Metal breathes below,
fins and circuits intertwine,
new life, calm and slow.
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For the first time an ecosystem survey with R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen will be conducted in the coastal area of Gabon. Identification and abundance of birds, whales, fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos will be conducted in the period from 9-23 May. In addition environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity, current, chlorophyll and oxygen will be measured. A reception was help onboard the vessel before the start of the cruise and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security, the governor of Port Gentil, and the FAO representative in Central Africa, were among the distinguished guest.
Students made posters of forest, lake, desert, ocean, swamp, river, mountain, or coastline ecosystem's living and non-living organisms.
Solar panels dot every other rooftop in this grid-poor village, close to Aligarh in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, where more than 300 million people live without access to electricity. Reliability, high lumen lighting, fans and cell phone charging is what's helping solar displace kerosene and diesel. Simpa Networks, a solar energy company, provides a pay-as-you-go solution to it’s customers, which makes it affordable and accessible to more people. Since this requires large up-front investments, access to scalable debt finance is crucial for such solar companies to scale. Power Africa helps the entire ecosystem grow by helping move along all the stakeholders in this space.
Location: Uttar Pradesh, India
Photographer: Sameer Halai, Co-Founder of SunFunder
Solar Company: Simpa India Pvt Ltd.
Food production more than doubled (an increase of over 160%) from 1961 to 2003. Over this period, production of cereals—the major energy component of human diets—has increased almost two and a half times, beef and sheep production increased by 40%, pork production by nearly 60%, and poultry production doubled.
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Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) study on above-ground and below-ground biomass in mangrove ecosystems, part of Sustainable Wetlands Adaptation and Mitigation Program (SWAMP). Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Photo by Sigit Deni Sasmito/CIFOR
Related research publication on mangrove:
Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics
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Carbon storage in mangrove and peatland ecosystems
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By far my favourite combination: an Ecosystem notebook + a black leather VadeMecum Pocket Cover.
The ecosystem notebook is exactly the same as the Moleskine. The cover fits like a glove.
When we stopped at this pond for our "sundowner," my first thought was, "Why couldn't we have stopped somewhere where there was something to see? But after a closer look at the variety of aquatic plants, the old-growth indigenous trees, the weaver-bird nests, and the mist already starting to form, I ended up being the last one back on the truck.
Over the past 40 years, globally, intensification of cultivated systems has been the primary source (almost 80%) of increased output. But some countries, predominantly found in sub-Saharan Africa, have had persistently low levels of productivity, and continue to rely on expansion of cultivated area.
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Field visit to a "payment for ecosystem services" project in the the Aberdare mountain range that linked sustainable agriculture practices in the mountain range with water quality downstream in the Naivasha Lake, Kenya
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Ceridwen Fraser, Research Fellow in Evolutionary and Molecular Ecology, Australian National University, Australia speaking during the Session "Future-Proofing Ecosystems through Predictive Analytics with Australian National University" at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
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The thick-billed murre and common murre have ranges 1,000,000 km2 and number in the millions or tens of millions of breeding pairs. However global populations are declining, although increases have occurred in some regions. These seabirds, together with other species of alcids, face a number of direct and indirect marine and terrestrial threats, which influence their survival and reproductive success. These include transboundary pollutants, by-catch mortality from fisheries, competition with fisheries for fish stocks, disturbance of breeding sites/habitat, and unsustainable harvesting. Marine pollution, especially oil, is a significant threat. Alcids are particularly sensitive to even small oil spills because of their concentrated aggregations. There is also concern over the impacts of cruise ship tourism on Arctic seabird colonies, given its rapid growth. Greater ship traffic increases the risk of groundings and other accidents, which may result in oil spills and other consequences.
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