The participating libraries have over two million volumes of biodiversity literature collected over 200 years to support the work of scientists, researchers, and students in their home institutions and throughout the world. The 10 member libraries of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) members now have over 1.124 million pages of key taxonomic literature available on the web. Over 6000 titles are currently available online.

Participating institutions:

American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY)
The Field Museum (Chicago, IL)
Harvard University Botany Libraries (Cambridge, MA)
Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, MA)
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Woods Hole, MA)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis, MO)
Natural History Museum (London, UK)
The New York Botanical Garden (New York, NY)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, UK)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington, DC)

The BHL will provide basic, important content for immediate research and for multiple bioinformatics initiatives. For the first time in history, the core of our natural history and herbaria library collections will be available to a truly global audience. Web-based access to these collections will provide a substantial benefit to people living and working in the developing world -- whether scientists or policymakers.

Polar Days provide an interactive hands-on way to learn and get involved – they include press releases, contacts to experts in several languages, activities for teachers, on-line community participation, web-conferencing events, and links to researchers in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Polar landscapes and terrestrial ecosystems extend from southern cold maritime islands to dry continental deserts in Antarctica, and from tree line across the continental tundra to remote northern islands in the Arctic. Ice, in the forms of permafrost, snow and ice cover, plays a dominant role – polar biological communities survive through remarkable adaptations and extensive migration.

On June 18 & 19, global audiences will connect in real-time to polar scientists and with young people live at the UNEP Children’s Conference in Stavanger, Norway. Both events, each 30 minutes in length, will cover the same topics and are timed to accommodate different time zones.

To learn more about the upcoming Polar Day events and more about IPY, go to: http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/land_life

The continued growth of the obesity epidemic at a time when obesity is highly stigmatizing should make us question the assumption that, given the right information and motivation, people can successfully reduce their food intake over the long term. An alternative view is that eating is an automatic behavior over which the environment has more control than do individuals. Automatic behaviors are those that occur without awareness, are initiated without intention, tend to continue without control, and operate efficiently or with little effort.

Reprinted with permission from Preventing Chronic Disease, Vol. 5, No. 1, Jan. 2008, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Epub Dec. 17, 2007].

RAND makes an electronic version of this document available for free as a public service.

To download the full text of this report:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2008/RAND_RP1326.pdf

Evolution by association: a history of symbiosis

Tropical environments: the functioning and management of tropical ecosystems

Field guide to western butterflies

Congratulations Dr Spotila and Ms Bell!

You can use the Climate Counts Company Scorecard to see how serious companies are about stopping climate change - and how they compare to their sector competitors. The annually updated scorecard reflects the self-reported efforts of companies to address climate change - or avoid it altogether.

Check out the full article in the Journal of Cell Biology: http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/abstract/181/3/405

Handbook of chemical and biological warfare agents

Remote sensing of impervious surfaces

Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals. Vol. 1, Introduction and hydrocarbons

Keywords and concepts in evolutionary developmental biology

Go to: http://www.fws.gov/nwi/links.htm

Portal for U.S. Government Events and Information
http://www.earthday.gov/

From the good folks at the Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/earthday/

This exhibition is about you — and all your fellow humans. Your body carries evidence of many distinctively human features that changed in your ancestors through the process of evolution.

Check it out: http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/surviving/index.shtml

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

He reports on what companies and corporations are doing to go "green". These are insightful and well researched. His blogs are well worth following.

CRC EnvironetBase: 8 titles

Central America [electronic resource] : geology, resources, and hazards

Clathrate hydrates of natural gases

Ecological basis of agroforestry

Food, energy, and society

Handbook of turfgrass management and physiology

Image processing for remote sensing

Sampling techniques for forest inventories

Soil sampling and methods of analysis