biodiversity

At a first-of-its-kind event, grantees recall how help from TWAS made their research, and careers, possible.

At a workshop in Mexico, co-organized by TWAS, experts weighed the environmental and social costs of surging global demand for the holothurians.

The International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Kenya, has joined two of TWAS's South-South collaboration programmes.

Phil Hockey of the University of Cape Town warned that without effective conservation measures the African Penguin could be facing extinction within thirty or forty years.

Assessments on ecological footprints are blurring the distinctions between developed and developing countries, says Mathis Wackernagel, president of the Global Footprint Network.

Economics professor Partha Dasgupta says we need new economic indicators that take into account the value of ecological systems.

TWAS is aiming to assist the training of a new generation of taxonomists in the developing world.

TWAS is hosting the 13th annual meeting of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South

Globalization is a driving force in today’s world. And, not surprisingly, it’s a source of a great deal of discussion and debate

"It's the landscape that defines the Mediterranean region," says Paolo Lombardi, director of the WWF Mediterranean Programme Office. "And we are treating the Mediterranean region's landscape badly."