GreenFacts Newsletter - March 2005

GreenFacts keeps growing, some figures:

GreenFacts reached some important milestones in February:

The number of visits on the Website reached 100 000 per month, and the pages viewed over 200 000 per month, doubling every four months since January 2003.

The total number of GreenFacts Digests released was brought to 10.

GreenFacts is in the top 5 positions on Google for many of the keywords relating to its Digests.

GreenFacts published three new Digests: Arsenic, Boron and Tobacco

What is known about effects on human health of arsenic?
Under what conditions can boron be harmful to human health or to the environment?
Are passive smokers at risk of harmful effects of tobacco?

Answers to these questions and more are provided in three Digests recently approved by the GreenFacts Scientific Board.

See also our press release on tobacco.

GreenFacts launches a Digest on Ecosystem Change

GreenFacts is pleased to announce that it is currently working on a new Digest on Ecosystem Change. It is faithfully summarizing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), an international work program designed to meet the needs of decision makers and the public for scientific information concerning the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding to those changes. The MA was launched by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in June 2001.

The GreenFacts Digest is to be published on-line on March 30, simultaneously with the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment itself.

GreenFacts translated many Digests in French and Spanish

Scientific information on dioxins, water disinfectants, power lines, mercury, arsenic, boron and tobacco is now available on-line in French and/or in Spanish.

GreenFacts is expanding its editorial workforce

Since the departure of Science Editor Nicolas Honorato, GreenFacts has welcomed within its staff Dr. Annika Åkerfelt. Moreover, biologist Patrick Van Hove and translator Denis Richir came further strengthening GreenFacts’ editorial staff, to work primarily on the Ecosystem Change Digest.

GreenFacts is multiplying its partnerships and collaboration agreements

Since three months, GreenFacts has finalized 11 new partnerships, with organizations from the academe and the industry, as well as with non-profit, communication and media organizations. This brings the total number of partners to 22.

For the whole list of partners, click here.

Since the end of November, GreenFacts also is a member of IUCN, the World Conservation Union.

An increasing number of international organizations make use of the GreenFacts summaries and implement links to GreenFacts Digests. Examples of such organizations include WHO, FAO, UNEP and DG Research of the European Commission.

For the list of sites linking to GreenFacts, see:
www.greenfacts.org/links/links-exchanges.htm

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