Putting a price tag on nature's bounty

Article Abstract:

A team of ecologists and economists led by Robert Costanza assessed the placement value of the earth's ecosystems, to emphasize how the natural environment is essential to life. Some critics call their average total of $33.3 trillion per year too high, and other call it a pointless exercise.

Reports, Natural resources, Valuation, Environmental economics

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Biology departments restructure

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Biologists do not all agree with the splitting of biology departs by level of study since some critical research areas will also be split. Other problems include faculty hires, and the downgrading of fields such as entomology and botany as fields such as cellular biology are elevated.

Management, Universities and colleges, Study and teaching, Biology, Biological research, Academic departments

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Fly development work bears prize-bearing fruit

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Edward B. Lewis, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus won the 1995 Nobel Prize in physiology for their work in identifying the genes that control development in the fruit fly D melanogaster. Their work has been an important basis for advances in the field of genetics.

Achievements and awards, Geneticists, Nobel prizes, 1995 AD, Lewis, Edward B., Nusslein-Volhard, Christiane, Wieschaus, Eric

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