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Can Roads and Russian Forests Coexist?

By on May 11, 2012 in Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability

A Russian woman is honored for pressing the fight against a road project that would bisect an old forest.

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Science Daily: Arabic records allow past climate to be reconstructed

By on May 3, 2012 in Climate Change

Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not the only indicators. Scientists have now interpreted records written in Iraq by Arabic historians for the first time and has made a chron…

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CASE STUDY: NAS/USAID Geospatial Assessment Study for Floods in Pakistan Threatening Agricultural Communities and Biodiversity

By on November 12, 2011 in Biodiversity and Environmental Sustainability, Flooding/Hurricane/Tornado, Natural Disaster, Remote Sensing/Geospatial

Geospatial Assessment of Flood Disaster Impacts and Mitigation Planning – Superfloods in Pakistan Threatening Agricultural Communities and Biodiversity: This geospatial study was conducted as a continuation of the Geographical Information System (GIS) applications that Dr. Uddin has been developing for the Pakistan transportation project which was funded on the US-side by the National Academy of [...]

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