Archive for the "Pimm Group in the news" Category

  • Stuart Pimm is awarded the Tyler Prize

    [caption id="attachment_497" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is the premier award for environmental science, environmental health and energy conferring great benefit upon mankind."][/caption] This morning sees the following announcement from Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement website. "Two conservationists whose careers have centered on understanding ecosystem functions as the essential foundation for ecosystem restoration will share the 2010 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The award, consisting of a $200,000 cash prize and

  • Hollywood mainstream goes green

    Pimm on film

  • Climate Change Will Significantly Increase Impending Bird Extinctions

    Stephen Schneider, the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, a senior fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute and a major contributor to the IPCC reports, also was a co-author, along with John Fay and Scott Loarie of Duke University. By 2100, climate change could cause up to 30 percent of land-bird species to go extinct worldwide. In Costa Rica, toucans normally confined to lower elevations are colonizing mountain forests, where they compete with resident species for food and nesting holes, and prey on the eggs and

  • What a Way to Go – Stuart’s Second Film This Year

    What A Way To Go - Life At The End Of Empire A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. What a Way to Go features interviews with noted authors Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Richard Heinberg, William Catton, Paul Roberts, Chellis Glendinning, Thomas Berry, Richard Manning and Ran Prieur, and scientists William Schlesinger, Stuart Pimm, Douglas Crawford-Brown, and Gerald Cecil. It looks head on at our present global predicament, as oil depletion, climate change, species extinction and population overshoot converge in a

  • Bhadra Relief Package Declared the Best

    Alladi Jayasri - India's National Newspaper The Hindu covers Krithi K. Karanth's work in India CRYING FOR A BETTER DEAL: A good relocation package for forest dwellers to save the tigers from the man-animal conflicts.

  • Sigma XI’s Stuart Pimm Receives 2007 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement

    Stuart L. Pimm 2007 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement Duke University professor Stuart Pimm became a conservation biologist watching species become extinct in Hawaii in the 1970s. That experience led to his commitment to study the scientific issues behind the global loss of biological diversity. Pimm has written over 200 scientific papers and four books, including The Balance of Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, and his global assessment of biodiversity's future: The World According

  • Dr Vale Gets Some Attention in the Top Brazilian Press

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  • Tackling the Biodiversity Crisis – BBC 4 Interview with Stuart Pimm & Georgiana Mace

    The Earth is losing its biodiversity at an alarming rate. Species are becoming extinct between 100 and 1,000 times faster than normal, as a direct result of human activity. In 2005, the UN-commissioned Millennium Ecosystem Assessment highlighted the damaging effect that declining biodiversity is having on human well-being, by for example threatening food supplies and the provision of clean air and water that we all depend on to survive. Listen to it here

  • Successful relocation of people from Indian reserve

    Successful relocation of villagers from wildlife sanctuary Jeremy Hance, special to mongabay.com September 29, 2007 The Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is located in India's Western Ghats mountain range. The sanctuary contains some of India's most celebrated and endangered wildlife, including the Bengal Tiger and Asian Elephant. Other mammals include the Guar, Sambar, Slender Loris, Chital, and Leopard. The sanctuary is also rich in bird species (nearly 300 have been recorded) and butterflies. As well, the Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary is one of twenty-seven reserves that are apart of Project Tiger: a program

  • Stuart Pimm Appears in DiCaprio’s The Eleventh Hour

    A Leonardo DiCaprio film, the 11th Hour describes the last moment when change is possible. I think a heard the voice of Thomas Linzey or the ever optimistic Bill McKibben saying something about the the 59th minute of the eleventh hour. The film explores how humanity has arrived at this moment – how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. A virtual tour de force of some of the best and most interesting environmentalists and activists describing the state of the world and what we can and need to do

  • Life in 2020

    It may be only a short while away, but the world in 2020 will be very different. Cosmos asked some of the world's leading scientists to forecast the future. Albert Einstein claimed he never thought about the future. "It comes soon enough," he would say. And you can see his point. What would have been the good of worrying about our destiny when it was not of our making? Read more

  • Compassionate Conservation

    Ecologist Stuart Pimm feels a moral responsibility to protect the world's "special places"--those richest in biodiversity and most threatened by human advances. For Stuart Pimm and his group of graduate students, the trip always begins the same way--with furious last-minute packing, a visit to CVS for anti-malarials, and a final powwow in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. Read more

  • Meeting of the Waters

    Along the Amazon, an Ecologist Follows his Call An article from Duke Divinity Magazine Click here to download a

  • Species in Trouble

    Stuart Pimm and His Students Seek Out the 'Hottest of the Hot Spots' in Their Efforts to Stem Global Loss of Biodiversity by Monte Basgall As he bustles through the Nicholas School's corridors carrying papers and files, or hunches over his computer doing sophisticated