Matt Ridley on Peak Farmland
…period while corn acreage merely doubled. Yet the amount of farmland in the world was still rising until recently. The reason is that increased farm productivity has been matched by…
…period while corn acreage merely doubled. Yet the amount of farmland in the world was still rising until recently. The reason is that increased farm productivity has been matched by…
…and three major barcoding initiatives launched: 1) World Fishes, 2) All Plants of Costa Rica, and 3) World Birds, the latter led by Mark Stoeckle together with researchers at Guelph…
…short time, the first NATO rupture of this kind. On one occasion, when a British frigate confronted an Icelandic gunboat on the high seas, the world’s press may have outnumbered…
…and guided by styles, prices, and rules; millers encompass saw and paper mills responding to customers, stockholders, and regulations; and foresters encompass landowners as well as people in foresters’ green…
…world of plants and animals, we have a far weaker grasp on the question of whether global microbial diversity is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. In an article published…
…more on how students are helping build the genetic database of global species diversity, see Sacramento Bee news story and CMB web page. Barcode of Life Connect tops…
The deep sea projects of the Census of Marine Life make news with their discoveries, as for example covered by AP’s Cain Burdeau in a 22 November 2009 story “Thousands…
The Sunday 5 June Independent published an excellent article about forests by Andrew Marszal that reports on our recent analysis of forest density….
The website Human Progress launches a new video series called The Covid Tonic. The series features conversations between renowned scholars and editor, Marian L. Tupy. The interviews focus on the…