On behalf of all the authors of the blog, and CABI, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and thank all of our readers for the comments supplied throughout the year. I hope these will continue and flourish onwards during 2009. Sorry for the delay in this post, but its finally here, it is our annual review of the Hand Picked…and Carefully Sorted blog, (also please check out our 2007 review).
We had another successful year of blogging during 2008, turning 2 years old on the 2nd November and posting a total of 148 articles.
Continue after the break for the complete monthly breakdown of all our posts.
January
- Review of 2007
- Biofuel – the burning issues
- Cryptosporidium and Giardia in drinking water: not just a problem for industrialised countries
- The new HIV or just an outbreak of boils?
- Omega-3 fatty acids – what have we learned?
- Joined up science
- The Nutrition Delusion
- Northern Circumpolar Soil calendar 2008
- Of cows and sweet potatoes
- Did the dinosaurs die of malaria?
February
- Virus infections-it’s a zoo in there!
- Year of the Ratte
- Feed me. Feed me…
- Beetroot with everything
- From Kenya with love…
- Haemodynamically yours
- National Invasive Weed Awareness Week in USA
- Watch out – there's a snakehead about!
- Virgin flight fuels aviation and energy debates
- The butterfly effect: diclofenac, vultures and rabies.
- Organic biofuels?
- ‘Nano Inside’
- Coping with extinction: can plants cope with the loss of their dispersers?
- Algae for biofuels: solving the land-use problem
- Slum tourism: Pro-poor, or simple voyeurism?
- Death by CAP
- Mines a pint…
- Ug99: One Year On
- Nutrigenomics On The Menu In Paris
- Rethink urged on biofuel targets
- Will it be Mimi, Cherie, Annabel or Orla?
- Will the Nile dry up?
- 25 future novel threats facing UK biodiversity
- ‘Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much’
- New medicines from fungi.
- Natural England launches the Future of Farming awards 2008
- Greener can be Healthier
- NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
- It's official – referees do favour the home team
- Apricots and cyanide: the bitter truth.
- April is the cruellest month…
- Earth Day – What’s Your Story?
- Can the world cope with more tourists?
- Easier being green…
- Every frog has its day
- Science and Hollywood: An Inconvenient Truth
- Have you noticed an increase in your supermarket bill?
- Isn’t it about time we start running our cars on ethanol like they do in Brazil?
- No, your car won't glow in the dark
- Climate change – good news for agricultural research?
- A little hope for orangutans
- Biodiversity suffers as resource use increases
- Be KIND to nettles
- English wildlife "under siege"!
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- The International Day for Biological Diversity – 22 May 2008
- Biodiversity – The more the merrier!
- Perhaps some dinosaurs died of malaria
- Could new biofuel crops become invasive?
- Come up and look at my genes
- Is this really the future of food?
- The taste of deliciousness
- Forests in Flux
- Google Earth: Disappearing Forests
- Getting married? Got butterflies?
- Will the world fight poverty and eradicate hunger?
- Living on the edge – A kind of madness!!!
- Did you ask for a glass of wine…?
- Whales – wanted dead or alive?
- From cats to sea otters, whales and maybe even humans
- A word to the wise (Aspergillosis)
- F is for….
- ‘Wage war on obesity – not the obese’
- Go with the flow
- Nutrition at the extremes of life
- Beijing in Bloom
- New tool to fight viruses?
- Pesticides persist in ground water
- Obesity & Diet -a new twist
- You say tomato, I say cardioprotective antiplatelet factor
- Waste no more!
- EU soil maps atlas
- The Plot Thickens
- The Chinese Mitten Crabs US invasion reaches eastern coastline
- Disease outbreaks on the map
- Protecting our chocolate supplies – controlling cocoa pests and diseases in West Africa
August
- Recent Television Reviews
- First PEFC certified construction project
- How do those Olympic swimmers do it?
- If you can’t stand the heat…
- …get out of the kitchen
- Hide and seek: 125,000 gorillas found in Congo
- Why do some countries win more Olympic medals?
- Water recycling – bathing in greywater!
- The first great ape to go extinct?
September
- Pollinator Presence Plummets
- ICPP 2008
- Intellectual activity blamed for obesity epidemic
- EAAE Conference
- Death takes the poor man's cow…
- The Environmental Impact of NutritionandFoodSciences…dot org
- Live Webcast of a meeting of the board that finances projects on cleaning the environment in developing countries
- Melamine in the Centre of Food Safety Scandal in China
- Invaders – the good, the bad and the ugly…
- New Video: Water Wars or Water Woes?
- World Tourism Day focuses on climate change
- Climate Change – What Will Happen to Weeds and Diseases?
- Hospital Food Anyone?
- Only 2 Days Left until World Rabies Day 2008!
- How Green are Biofuels?
- Mine is 5.68 – what is yours?
October
- Is Your Dog Over 60?
- Canine distemper and Paget's disease: zoonotic?
- Environmental Impact!
- Should pastoralism get a better press?
- Take care with reintroductions
- Why Can’t GM and Organic Just Get Along?
- One medicine; in practice
- Pedal Power Purification
- Fighting the 'superweed''
- A little more on Paget's…
- World Food Day – What’s the Point?
- Climate change affects tigers’ behaviour.
- A new deadly virus
- The First European Veterinary Week, 10-16 November 2008
- Are wild treeshrews alcoholics?
- Beetle threat to 'leaf peeping' tourism
- The next Green Revolution
- Neglected diseases at the APHA conference
- Carbon-neutral online conference – Climate 2008 / Klima 2008
- Beekeepers March on Whitehall
- Will Barack Obama’s victory bring about changes to the US environmental policy?
- Making tourism sustainable – there is no plan B
- High risk of increase in pollutant mobilisation through water erosion due to climatic change
- Science and technology mitigating the impact of tropical cyclones
- Bringing the mammoth back from the dead
- Underground invasion threatens North American forests
- People still eat sugar in a recession
- The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznań, 1-12 December 2008
- Algae surface again
- Scope for significant GHG emissions cut in agriculture
- Nothing funny in CAB Abstracts – or is there?
- How about some gold for Christmas?
- Precious gifts of frankincense and myrrh…
- The Christmas gift that keeps on growing
- What, no sprouts?
- Unforseen effect of the credit crunch?
- Save the Guinea worm?
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A great year, keep up the good work!