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With partial support from the foundation, World Wildlife Fund has put together a video that captures the importance of Peru’s biodiversity and natural resources, and celebrates a new public-private partnership to safeguard that legacy for future generations. 

 

 

Foundation grantees at Ohio State University have established the important role of plankton networks in removing carbon from the atmosphere and depositing it deep in the ocean.

Marine Microbiology Initiative investigator Matthew Sullivan and colleagues conducted this work as part of the three-year Tara Oceans Expedition, in which a team of more than ...

Our grantee partners at the University of California, San Francisco are making great strides to tackle an enormous challenge too often experienced by patients when hospitalized: delirium. Each year, more than seven million people who have been hospitalized experience delirium, a state of mental confusion that can occur as a ...

Moore Foundation grantees at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new search method to help biologists and medical researchers reduce search times for DNA and RNA sequences down from days to a matter of minutes. This method will help researchers investigate basic biological processes and potential targets for cancer.

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The Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) today announced a groundbreaking new initiative to triple the amount of preserved farmland acreage and the number of preserved farms on the San Mateo coast over the next 10 years.

One of the most ambitious farming conservation programs in the history of the Bay ...

Peninsula Open Space Trust aims to preserve farmland in San Mateo County

The Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), has announced a groundbreaking new initiative that hopes to triple the amount of preserved farmland acreage and the number of preserved farms on the San Mateo Coast over the next 10 years. ...

If you encountered a mountain lion while hiking, would you be scared? It turns out, so are they. As human presence expands into wild environments, the animals that live there, including pumas, live in constant fear. This fear can ultimately dictate when, where, and what animals eat, what habitats they ...

At the White House Summit on Earthquake Resilience today, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced $3.6 million in grants to advance a West Coast Earthquake Early Warning system. The funding to California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington and the U.S. Geological Survey supports the ...

Vancouver, British Columbia -- Today First Nations governments and the BC government, with the support of ForestEthics Solutions, Greenpeace, Sierra Club BC and five forestry companies, announced the fulfilment of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements. Eighty-five percent (3.1 million hectares) of the remote wilderness region’s coastal temperate rainforests are now permanently ...

Today, the Premier of British Columbia announced the results of final negotiations for the Great Bear Rainforest agreement. The deal, more than a decade in the making, doubles the amount of temperate, old-growth forest that will be designated off-limits to logging. The agreement is a global model for sustainable development, ...