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Six Things to Know about Rights of Nature

Legal Planet

If one looks at the history of American environmental law, there have been several distinct periods — the conservation movement of the early 20th century, the environmental movement in the 1970s, environmental justice starting in the 1980s, partisanship and polarization from the 1990s, and gridlock through today.

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COP16 Dispatch: Week 2 On the Path to Peace with Nature: Wins and Challenges from COP16 Outcomes

ESA

Major wins: innovation, Indigenous Leadership, and new conservation tools The Cali Fund for benefit-sharing One of COP16’s most significant achievements was the creation of the “Cali Fund,” a pioneering mechanism to share benefits from digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources.

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

The Corporate Consolidation of Seed Breeding Over the past decades, we have seen a hyper consolidation of the seed market with over 50% of seed sales coming from companies that are owned by four large biotechnology corporations. Source: Philip H. To strictly analyze the cost of seed, consider that corn farmers who paid $26.65

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Frontiers ebook releases: April 2022

Frontiers

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including special issues on the novel roles of platelets in health and disease, artificial intelligence applications in specialty crops , the impact of Covid on food and nutrition , highlights from the first year of Frontiers in Conservation Science , the effects of music on cognition and many more!

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GAO Science and Tech Spotlight Describes Benefits of Synthetic Biology and Challenges Ahead

Brag

GAO defines synthetic biology as “a multidisciplinary field of biotechnology that involves engineering the genetic material of organisms -- such as viruses, bacteria, yeast, plants, or animals -- to have new characteristics.”

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From Curiosity to a Career: Tigers, Elephants, and Everything In Between

Frontiers

I didn’t want to continue doing Physics at a Masters level and the only Biology programme that I was eligible for was Biotechnology, so that’s what I did! What would your advice be to a young female student starting in conservation now? I did a PhD in Ecology at UC San Diego, so I finally got there.”. You mentioned moving to the U.S.

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GAO Publishes Science & Tech Spotlight on Biorecycling of Plastics

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At the federal level, depending on the specifics of the process, aspects of biorecycling or the wastes that may result from that process might be governed by statutes such as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Microbial Products of Biotechnology Rule.