"The decision to move our Ethos water sourcing from California and reduce our in-store water reductions by more than 25percentt are steps we are taking in partnership with state and local governments to accelerate water conservation," John Kelly, Starbucks senior vice president of global responsibility and public policy, said in a statement.
The project is the first to receive financing through the Accelerated Conservation and Efficiency initiative or "ACE," the administration said, a $100 million competitive program that the Department of Citywide Administrative Services created to expedite such sustainability projects.
Efforts on molecular breeding and molecular genetic analysis are underway in eucalypts to accelerate breeding and conservation.
Unless the conservation community accelerates the pace of biodiversity conservation, many of the world's rare and endemic mediterranean systems will continue along their present trajectory of habitat conversion and degradation.
Overall, the natural history and husbandry contributions presented here should facilitate accelerated research and conservation of this threatened coral.
Likelihood ratio tests (LRT) were then performed in phyloP [ 86], comparing the fit of the neutral model to one that allows either accelerated evolution or conservation ("CON-ACC") at each site.
To accelerate local biodiversity assessments for conservation and resource management, scientists need both cost-effective survey methods and validated statistical models that link sample data to estimates of true species richness.
As the pace of urbanization accelerates, the conservation of urban biodiversity emerges as a rising concern.
Conservation policies and practices also accelerate changes in swidden by restricting forest clearing and encouraging commercial agriculture.
America must modernize conservation, modernize our energy infrastructure, increase energy supplies, accelerate the protection and improvement of the environment, and increase our nation's energy security.
