This article was published in the Resources for the Future (Washington, D.C.) newsletter Resources. Posted with permission. The Greek oikos, for house, fathered the siblings economics and ecology. Economics, literally, are…
…could be as large as 30,000 tons,” said Dragos Rauta, an expert at the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (INTERTANKO). Even so, the vessel would struggle to comply with…
…(not far from European meat eating but below USA). The early deviations from the second logistic also show the havoc that politics can create. Mao was an enemy of meat….
What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online…
…be a new species. By appearance it looks like the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) but it is genetically different from other American cockroaches in the databases. DNA “name tags” survived in processed…
…Series. This evening lecture series (which began about 1990 as the Zanvil Cohn Forum on Biomedical Affairs) brings thought leaders in science, business, health, politics, arts, and humanities to Rockefeller to address…
On 15 may 2008 an international assembly of bee experts gathered at York University and announced a new initiative to DNA barcode world’s bees. Some snippets from news reports: “According…
On 27 July 2011, the International Cosmos Prize committee announced the Census of Marine Life Scientific Steering Committee as the recipient of the 2011 International Cosmos Prize. Established in 1993…
…2008, which brought together the annual meetings of Botanical Society of America, the Canadian Botanical Association/L’Association Botanique du Canada, American Fern Society, and American Society of Plant Taxonomists. According to…
An engaging and amusingly illustrated update on DNA Barcoding by Mark Stoeckle and Paul Hebert appears in the October 2008 issue of Scientific American, on newsstands and web today, with…