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Swedish Teenagers Help Educate and Empower Female Refugees in Rwanda	Some US$900,000 raised by Swedish teenagers is giving young female refugees in Rwanda the chance to become more independent and to lead productive lives.
Window Opens on the Secret Life of Microbes: Scientists Develop First Microbial Profiles of Ecosystems	Even though microbes essentially rule the Earth, scientists have never before been able to conduct comprehensive studies of microbes and their interactions with one another in their natural habitats.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Opens Doors for 100 Million Seeds from 100 Countries	The Svalbard Global Seed Vault established in the permafrost in the mountains of Svalbard opened on February 26, 2008 on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries.
NOAA Helps National Coral Reef Institute Grow Coral in Laboratory for Transplantation to Damaged Reefs	Scientists at the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI) are currently growing more than 400 corals from the larval stage as part of a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -funded research, and will transplant them to restore damaged coral reefs.
Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa Calls for Secretariat and Volunteer Applicants	The African Union has declared the year 2008 the Year of African Youth, also called YAY 2008.
Encyclopedia Of Life (EOL) Species Pages Now Available	An international group of scientists, research institutions and museums is currently working to assemble the most comprehensive online biodiversity encyclopedia on the planet.
Barriers to a Green Economy Breaking Down According to UNEP Year Book 2008	An emerging Green Economy is seen in the United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) 2008 Year Book which indicates that growing numbers of companies embrace environmental policies and investors are pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into cleaner and renewable energies.
Sweden and UNEP Work Together to Help Developing Countries Phase Out of Ozone-Depleting HCFCS	The new Swedish-UNEP cooperation aims to raise the awareness of industry and Governments in developing countries about commercially-available alternatives to HCFCs and aims to convince them about the benefits of adopting such technology.
Calls For Urgent Action To Protect And Restore Peatlands to Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions	Peatlands are wetland ecosystems that accumulate plant material under saturated conditions to form layers of peat soil up to 20m thick – storing on average 10 times more carbon per hectare than other ecosystems. Peatlands occur in 180 countries and cover 400 million hectares or 3% of the world’s surface.
Study Shows In Monarch Butterflies Cry2 Is King of the Clock	Internal clocks govern the daily rhythms of the most basic functions of waking, eating, and sleeping. The molecular basis of such pacemakers is best understood in fruit flies, where the interactions of a small set of molecules drive the insects' behaviors just as they do our own.