Forests, Farms, and Materials
…Providing vision for resource management emerges from learning how natural systems have functioned over many millennia. Eight thousand years ago, when humans played only bit parts in the world ecosystem,…
…Providing vision for resource management emerges from learning how natural systems have functioned over many millennia. Eight thousand years ago, when humans played only bit parts in the world ecosystem,…
Terry Collins artfully summarizes the progress in this news release about the International Quiet Ocean Experiment. The news was picked up by Agencia EFE: Artificial intelligence listens to the habits…
…no means comprehensive, is the issue of scale. Geographically speaking, some environmental problems are global in scope and, as such, require national and international attention, albeit still requiring individual contributions. Some problems…
As of October 11, 2008 researchers have deposited 14,594 DNA barcodes in BOLD representing 2,586 avian species, 26% of world’s 9,933 birds. You can browse taxonomic coverage to date at…
…small industry of birding guides and optics, and was a driving force in the much larger social transformation in awareness of the natural world and human impact. I see the…
…world enter the marketplace, often as filets or steaks lacking distinguishing external features. In October 2011, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formally adopted DNA barcoding for seafood identification, the…
Two groups of researchers explore tropical forest plots with DNA barcodes in October 2009 PLoS ONE and Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (both open access, the latter Twittered!). It is…
…a 684-page collection of 20 chapters by many authors edited by Beth N. Orcutt (Bigelow Lab, Maine, USA), Isabelle Daniel (University of Lyon, France), and Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University, Texas,…
…edition of the Italian financial newspaper, Il Sole/24 Ore, on 17 November 1999; also in Italian as Benvenuti nel millennio nucleare, pp.163-168 in Duemila: Verso una societa aperta, M. Moussanet,…