HSBC has been teaming up with four prominent environment global NGOs that consisted of Climate Group, Earth watch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in providing climate change and environment workshops for its employees in several places in the world," HSBC Indonesia Senior Vice President Group Communications & Corporate Sustainability Agung Laksamana told a press conference held in HSBC Learning Center here.
As "killer bees" spread northward, David Roubik, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, began a 17-year study that revealed that Africanized bees caused less damage to native bees than changes in the weather and may have increased the availability of their food plants.
Joseph Wright of the Panama-based Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute says the tropics now have more protected land than in recent history, and believes that large areas of tropical forest will remain intact through 2030 and beyond: "We believe that the area covered by tropical forest will never fall to the exceedingly low levels that are often predicted and that extinction will threaten a smaller proportion of tropical forest species than previously predicted.
These ancient people also ate peanuts and a local fruit known as pacay, according to the report by Dolores Piperno, a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Museum of Natural History, and Tom Dillehay, professor of archaeology at Vanderbilt University.
The report comes a few weeks after an article in the journal Science, by Jörn Scharlemann and William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, concluded that biofuels made from corn, sugar cane and soy could have a greater environmental impact than burning fossil fuels.
He is also senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the Republic of Panama and co-founder of the Shifting Baselines Media Campaign, a public education program that has worked to foster collaboration among Hollywood producers and filmmakers with ocean conservation scientists.
A black butterfly flashing bold stripes, Heliconius heurippa, came from the natural mixing of two other Heliconius species, says Jesus Mavarez of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Scientists from WHOI, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid provided integral scientific and technical advice on the design and operation of LJL.
