Wednesday 21 October 2009 - Andy Rouse at National Geographic store
The latest exhibition in the photography section of the National Geographic Store on Regent Street in London features the breathtaking work of Andy Rouse.
Taking place from October 16-26, Vanishing Worlds is part of an initiative by Nikon UK and National Geographic to inspire wildlife and photography enthusiasts which also includes appearances by Andy on the National Geographic television channels.
The collection of images encapsulates the beauty and vulnerability of wildlife and landscapes taken all over the world, from Rwanda to The inflatable Arctic.
You can see ten of the superb pictures in a gallery below left.
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Saw-shelled Turtle by Andy Rouse.
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From fighting tigers to an inquisitive walrus, as with the exhibition each of the pictures comes with a detailed caption by Andy, explaining the circumstances of the shot and the camera settings, with insights into threatened species.
Andy Rouse said: “The Vanishing inflatable castles Worlds exhibition reflects the significance of the wilderness in the plight to protect endangered species around the world - the key to preventing animals from extinction is protecting the habitats they live in.
"My goal is to encourage and inspire photographers to get out and visually experience and record the wonder of wildlife for themselves... Ultimately, I hope that my work encourages everyone to care more about the world that we live in.”
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Wednesday 21 October 2009 - As well as climate change
This would have been a social service, in much the same way that programmes showing you how to do up your house are a social service.”
The BBC denied that the decision had pearl jewelry been based on impartiality. A spokeswoman said: “We explained at the time the reasons why we didn’t go ahead with Planet Relief and that this wasn’t about concern about impartiality but because we had found that audiences responded better to documentaries and factual programming about the issue of climate change.
“We regularly cover this subject in our news and online output as well as in factual programmes, for example showing a definitive history of climate change, Earth — The Climate Wars, on BBC Two last year. We are always looking at other ways to cover the issue. For example we are planning a big special on energy consumption later in the year on BBC One.”
Lord May, who is president of the British Science Association, was speaking at the launch of its British Science Festival at the University of Surrey in Guildford yesterday. In his presidential address tonight, Lord May is to say that the world faces several pearl jewelry wholesale interlocking problems that will require concerted action over the next decades.
As well as climate change, major challenges will include providing food and water for a growing population, and dealing with a huge loss of biodiversity. “In all this, probably the biggest difficulty is that globally co-operative actions are required,” he will say.
Though Lord May is not religious, he pearl necklace believes that religions can help such co-operation because the idea of a deity can serve as a “punisher” who encourages people not to cheat on their obligations to society. Religions, however, can also be part of the problem because they are often authoritarian and resistant to change.
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Wednesday 21 October 2009 - Scientist Lord May attacks BBC’s rejection of Planet Relief day
The BBC gave in to a “ludicrous” concern about impartiality when it dropped a day of programmes intended to raise awareness about energy efficiency and climate change, one of Britain’s most senior scientists says.
Lord May of Oxford, a former President of the pearl jewelry Royal Society and Government chief scientist, said that the BBC had failed in its public service remit by withdrawing from last year’s Energy Saving Day (E-Day).
The BBC had originally planned to support the initiative to encourage energy conservation by staging Planet Relief, a comedy event modelled on Red Nose Day. It dropped out of the project, however, after a report that raised concerns about taking sides on environmental issues and poor ratings for the Live Earth concert of 2007.
E-Day was eventually staged independently last January, without BBC support, but made little public impact. The floodlights of St Paul’s Cathedral in London were turned off to open the event, but it had no effect at all on Britain’s energy consumption.
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Lord May blamed the BBC’s withdrawal for the wholesale pearl jewelry failure of a project that could have done much to encourage individuals to do more to save energy.
“Why the BBC pulled the plug is beyond comprehension,” he said. “They said it would have interfered with impartiality, which I find incomprehensible. The idea was there was to be one day where the BBC did an event like Red Nose Day, asking everybody to turn the lights off and be conscious about electricity consumption. The National Grid would monitor it and you could see the impact on a website, and the BBC was going to be in your face about it all pearl jewelry wholesale day.
“The whole idea behind the concept was climate change is real, and there’s a lot the individual can do about it.”
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A sixth prize, in economics, was endowed in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank, and while it is not officially classed as a Nobel prize it is awarded in association with the Nobel Foundation. It is this precedent that the scientists suggest is followed to set up the new prizes, with support from philanthropic organisations or other donors.
Michael Sohlman, executive director of the freshwater pearl Nobel Foundation, to whom the letter was sent, told New Scientist that he would circulate it to the Nobel board, but that reforms to the prizes were highly unlikely.
The board is opposed to the introduction of new prizes, which would be time-consuming and expensive, he said. He also pointed out that some of the fields that would be covered by new prizes have been recognised by Nobels before. Sherwood Rowland, Mario Molina and Paul Crutzen, for example, shared the chemistry prize for establishing the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons.
The peace prize has also been awarded for freshwater pearl jewelry scientific and medical achievements. The 2007 prize went to Al Gore, the former US Vice-President, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 1999 prize went to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières, and the 1970 prize went to Norman Borlaug for the development of high-yielding wheat.
Signatories to the letter said it was wrong that certain scientific achievements could only be rewarded in this oblique way. Larry Brilliant, an pearl jewelry wholesale epidemiologist who worked on the eradication of smallpox, said: “If malaria were ever eradicated, it would only be eligible for a peace prize. It’s wonderful to eradicate disease, but it’s not peace.”
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Wednesday 21 October 2009 - Many of these fields, as well as these
Charles Darwin, for example, could not have won a Nobel for one of the greatest scientific advances of all time: the theory of evolution by natural selection. Sir Richard Doll also never won a Nobel prize for discovering the link between smoking and lung cancer.
The scientists call for the establishment of at wholesale pearl jewelry least two new prizes to recognise achievements in environmental science and public health. Like the existing peace prize, these could be awarded to institutions as well as individuals.
They also suggest either widening the remit of the medicine award to embrace all the life sciences, or creating further prizes in fundamental biology and behavioural science.
Signatories to the letter, which was pearl jewelry wholesale organised by New Scientist magazine, include Sir David King, Britain’s former government chief scientist, Sir Tim Hunt, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2001, and Steven Pinker, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
At least three of the signatories would likely have won Nobel prizes under the system they propose. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, is one of the world’s most respected botanists; E. O. Wilson, Emeritus Professor at Harvard University, is a distinguished evolutionary theorist; and Frans de Waal, Professor of Primate Behaviour at Emory University in Atlanta, has transformed our understanding of humanity’s closest animal relatives.
In the letter, the scientists describe the Nobel prizes as “an extraordinary institution” that does more to promote excellence in research and the public profile of science than any other award scheme.
“Science has, however, changed significantly since the first prizes were awarded,” they say. “When Alfred Nobel signed his will in 1895, he could not have anticipated threats such as climate change and HIV/Aids. Nor could he have known of the new scientific disciplines whose findings can change our world for the better.
“Many of these fields, as well as pearl jewelry these challenges, do not fit well into the remit of the prizes that he created. If the World Health Organisation were to eradicate malaria, for example, the achievement might not qualify for any of the existing prizes. Fundamental breakthroughs in areas such as neuroscience and ecology, some of which will eventually help tackle the threats mentioned above, are also going unrecognised.”
The prizes were established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and chemist best known for the invention of dynamite, and were first awarded in 1901. He endowed five annual prizes, to be awarded to those who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind”, in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.
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