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…

Coach and the Fly

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…

Kiefer BioFuels Report

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…

Science and Diplomacy

…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…

Secret Forests of El Salvador

…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…

NYC/NJ Fish eDNA – Methods

…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…

Science magazine, “Temperate Forests Gain Ground”

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…