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The first creation of the new partnership between Wufoo and DocVerify has been released. The one-click-sign, fully customizable web form and proprietary Easy Sign system is increasing sales for companies of all kinds the world over by streamlining the signatory process. Irvine, CA (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 The recent partnership between major global web form service, Wufoo, and market leader in digital document and electronic signatures, DocVerify, has created a one click electronic-signature...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Roman Republic and the subsequent Roman Empire helped spread language, culture and learning across Europe, northern Africa and into parts of the Middle East. At the same time, it did so through conquest and subjugation, subsequently enslaving millions. It is thus remembered for its triumphs and its barbarity. Its effects are still felt today, but now researchers have determined it may have even helped contribute to contamination...
Marine Biological Laboratory The often damaging impacts of intensive agriculture on nearby streams, rivers, and their wildlife has been well documented in temperate zones, such as North America and Europe. Yet a new study in an important tropical zone—the fast-changing southern Amazon, a region marked by widespread replacement of native forest by cattle ranches and more recently croplands—suggests that at least some of those damaging impacts may be buffered by the very deep and...
Researchers illustrate how changes to farming could dramatically increase future costs of conservation In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation. However, a research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) revealed that in the long run, conservation incentives may struggle to compete with future agricultural yields. Their findings were first published online in...
Catalog Spree and PaperKarma Join Forces to Raise Awareness of Paper Waste and Encourage Use of Digital Media LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Catalog Spree, your personal digital mall that lets you browse, discover and shop your favorite catalogs, today joins forces with PaperKarma, an Apple "disruptive app of 2012" that stops unwanted paper mail, to kick off the "Paperless Pledge" (www.paperlesspledge.com), an effort to raise awareness of the landfill waste...
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of California San Diego and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will launch in August a new international certificate program in Advanced Terrestrial Carbon Accounting. Application and scholarship information can be found at http://extension.ucsd.edu/TCA. The deadline for applicants outside of the United States that require a visa is April 15. American applicants have until June 15 to apply. This unique program will train...
A Project of Houston Arts Alliance with Galveston Arts Center and Galveston Island Tree Conservancy HOUSTON, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos believes art can change the world. His temporary social art installation The Blue Trees came to Houston and Galveston this March as part of his one-man effort to use art to start an international conversation about deforestation and its global impact. (Photo:...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Deforestation is less likely to occur in areas of the Amazon rainforest that have been placed under strict protection than those that allow for controlled resource extraction, according to a new study published Monday in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Furthermore, lead author Christoph Nolte, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Tropical forests may be more resistant to the effects of greenhouse gas emissions than previously believed, according to a new study published online this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. In what Olive Heffernan of Nature refers to as “the most extensive study of its kind,” researchers from the US, the UK, Australia and Brazil created a simulation of the impact that carbon-based emissions would have on tropical forests...
Developer of innovative diagnostic imaging agents, Lantheus Medical Imaging selects IntelliChief Document Management -– solution will be seamlessly integrated with their Infor ERP Mansfield, MA (PRWEB) February 14, 2013 IntelliChief LLC, the official document management solution provider to Infor, and leading provider of paperless solutions for the IBM i (AS400, iSeries, System i) and Power Enterprise, today announced that Lantheus Medical Imaging has chosen to implement IntelliChief...
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The Amazon Rainforest (known as Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia in Portuguese, and Selva Amazónica or Amazonia in Spanish), also known as Amazonia, or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers almost all of the Amazon Basin in South America. The basin consists of 1.7 billion acres, of which 1.4 billion acres is rainforest. This rainforest covers nine nations (Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana). Brazil contains...
Deforestation is the act or process of removing trees from forested lands by cutting or burning. There are many reasons for deforestation. Logs are sold as a commodity and cleared lands can be used for pastures and human settlements. The damage caused by deforestation, however, can be great. If land is not somewhat reforested it can cause damage to habitats for wildlife and other plant life, affect the aridity of the region, and possibly encourage degradation into wasteland. Due to negligent...
