ICT Water and Climate Change: UON & IDRC Research Grants Project

22/06/2015

Gerardo Ceballos outlines his recent paper analysing whether the rate of modern extinctions caused by humans is higher than the natural extinction rate.

22/06/2015

Shana Lebowitz says there are certain qualities that nearly all super-smart people share.

15/06/2015

Blog by Dilli Bhattarai on CBA9 visit: http://www.ictwcc.or.ke/water-and-soil-conservation-a-focus-for-community-based-adaptation-to-climate-change/ cc:.

By Dilli on June 13, 2015 in Blogs 1 ‘This is how we water fruit-plants here. Soil is very dry, temperature is high, and water evaporates as it falls on the surface. Therefore, we fill up the plastic bottle and place it upside down planting it into the soil close with the plant making sure that t…

15/06/2015

Blogs on CBA9 visit: by Lilliana Piedra. cc@EdithOfwona. http://www.ictwcc.or.ke/field-trip-cba9/

By Lilliana Piedra Castro on June 12, 2015 in Blogs 0 0 During the CBA9, my field trip was in Machakos County. We visited Kenyan Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization (http://www.kalro.org/). They work on the implementation of measures to adapt to climate change…

14/06/2015

Art of good communication. Edith Ofwona

Djuke Veldhuis provides practical advice on engaging an audience with your research in just a few minutes.

12/06/2015

By Ilissa Ocko The canonical rule of thumb for scientists speaking to nonscientists is to talk as if you were speaking to eighth graders, because a lay audience often has a basic, and certainly not...

12/06/2015

The authors outline the four powerful forces disrupting the global economy.

08/06/2015

TODAY @ 5 pm - deadline for comments on draft & Assessment. Download the draft report and comment on it here: http://1.usa.gov/1wXH7uS.

07/06/2015

Matthew Speiser and Natasha Bertrand looks at the latest Social Progress Index, which measures progress through fulfillment of basic human needs.

07/06/2015

What we learn about our common humanity in our youthful travels is bound, one hopes, to translate into a sense of responsible global citizenship.

06/06/2015

What new technologies & tools can we use to communicate about in our future assessments? Tell us at 1.usa.gov/1cGKmnH

05/06/2015

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