Singapore makes efforts to sustain biodiversity

Managing for ocean biodiversity to sustain marine ecosystem services

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America C evidence is accumulating from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine systems to suggest that sustainable ecosystem services depend upon a diverse biota (Daily et al. 1997; Loreau et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 2001; Wall et al. 2004; MA 2005; Sala and Knowlton 2006; Worm et al. 2006; Butler et al. 2007; Hector and Bagchi 2007). In princi...

Efforts to Decriminalize Suicide in Ghana, India and Singapore

In recent years, many nations have decriminalized suicide and attempted suicide, including Canada, Ireland and Sri Lanka. The present paper discusses three countries that are moving toward decriminalizing suicidal behavior (India, Ghana and Singapore) and notes the different pressures for this change – in India from the Supreme Court, in Ghana from NGOs and healthcare professionals, and in Sing...

Beyond Singapore: Hong Kong and Asian biodiversity.

Transgenes sustain epigeal insect biodiversity in diversified vegetable farm systems.

Many ecological studies have focused on the effects of transgenes in field crops, but few have considered multiple transgenes in diversified vegetable systems. We compared the epigeal, or soil surface-dwelling, communities of Coleoptera and Formicidae between transgenic and isoline vegetable systems consisting of sweet corn, potato, and acorn squash, with transgenic cultivars expressing Cry1(A)...

Early Results of States’ Efforts to Support, Scale, and Sustain the National Diabetes Prevention Program

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a cooperative agreement with health departments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to strengthen chronic disease prevention and management efforts through the implementation of evidence-based strategies, such as CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program. The National Diabetes Prevention Program supports organizations to ...