Dear Colleagues, I write this from Helsinki. The stop in Finland en route to Beijing for a meeting of the IGU Executive Committee was made in order to present the IGU’s Planet and Humanity Medal to former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari. President Ahtisaari, you will recall, received the Nobel Prize for Peace [...]
ScienceDaily (Nov. 25, 2010) — The loss of biodiversity will continue in the 21st Century. Global-scale extinctions will increase strongly, the average species abundance1 will decline and their distribution will be disturbed. Scientists thought until recently that the complexity of biodiversity made it unfeasible to predict future trends. Now, however, like the climatologists, life science [...]
Professor Yukio Himiyama was recently elected as Executive Committee member to replace Professor Mike Meadows who assumed the position of Secretary-General and Treasurer in July. Professor Yukio Himiyama was born in Japan in 1949. He received his B.S. in Physics at Tohoku University in Japan (1973), M.S. in Physics at UCLA (1975) and at [...]
The first study to ever explore biological activity in the deepest layer of ocean crust has found bacteria with a remarkable range of capabilities, including eating hydrocarbons and natural gas, and "fixing" or storing carbon. The research, just published in the journal PLoS One, showed that a significant number and amount of bacterial forms were [...]