Corngrowers outperform professors
…opportunity than that between Sinclair’s projected maximum and averages over the entire USA. For 50 years the National Corn Growers Association has conducted a national contest, and in 2014 the…
…opportunity than that between Sinclair’s projected maximum and averages over the entire USA. For 50 years the National Corn Growers Association has conducted a national contest, and in 2014 the…
Are USA carbon dioxide emissions now around their “natural†peak?  Following up on our postings 589 and 585 on 20 April 2009, we post a trio of figures that…
Biofuels attract lots of money and political support in the USA, but they have lots of environmental and economic shortcomings. Captain Todd A. “Ike†Kiefer has written a comprehensive, penetrating…
…Baghdad faculty in science & engineering to visit the USA. We were pleased to help make possible the visit, which finally began 25 June 2005 and earned a front-page story…
…Academy of Sciences USA, Hajibabaei et al examine 4260 specimens representing 521 (71%) of hesperiids (skipper butterflies), sphingids (sphinx moths), and saturniid moths of the of the ACG conservation area…
…the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples and How Much Will Feeding More and Wealthier People Encroach on Forests?. A standard refrain was, “Maybe in the USA but…
…fish in coastal New Jersey, USA [open access external link]. ICES J Marine Sci, 2021. Stoeckle MY, Mishu MD, Charlop-Powers Z. Improved Environmental DNA Reference Library Detects Overlooked Marine Fishes in New…
…106 bp fragment detected all bony fish, needed other primers for cartilaginous fish and turtles; 1 L samples vacuum filtered onto 0.22-µm Durapore membrane filters (Millipore, MA, USA); Qiagen extraction…
We have posted an article that appeared today in Science magazine, “Temperate Forests Gain Ground”, that discusses the paper “Searching for Leverage to Conserve Forests: The Industrial Ecology of Wood…
We have posted an article by Greg Easterbrook that appeared today in The New Republic magazine, “America the O.K. -Why life in the U.S. has never been better,” that quotes…