This paper reports the science accomplishments of the Pacific Northwest Research Station in 2016, which revealed how moss can serve as a bioindicator of urban air quality. The findings led to the prompt abatement of two sources of toxic metals in Portland, Oregon. Policies and practices were...

The Annual Report 2015 gives a brief overview of ICIMOD's activities over the past year. It presents progress and impacts across the broad areas of policy engagement mountain innovations and community practices, capacity building, knowledge generation and use, facilitating regional cooperation, and ...

The 2010 Annual Report catalogues the beginning of a new, strategic and transformational direction for UNEP as it began implementing its Medium Term Strategy (MTS) for 2010-2013 across six areas: Climate change; Disasters and conflicts; Ecosystem management; Environmental governance; Harmful...

This annual report discusses the monitoring programme of environmental radioactivity through the measurement of atmospheric radioactivity, radioactive deposition and radioactivity in milk conducted annually in New Zealand and Rarotonga. It also highlighted the awarding of quality management system...

This 2014 annual report focuses on the remediation technologies of rural soils, cutting edge reproductive technologies in swine breeding and raising, improving the safety of fruits and vegetables and database and website development for agricultural policy. A report on the importance of the...

A study was conducted to monitor radioactivity levels in the air, rain water and in milk in New Zealand during 2007. It was shown that no significant concentrations of artificial radionuclides were detected by gamma spectroscopic analysis of daily air filters collected from each monitoring station. ...