Way back in 1999, Jesse Ausubel, Fred Grassle, Mark Costello, Edward van den Berghe, James Edwards and others began to envisage an on-line ocean biogeographical information system (OBIS) to enable…
…www.barcodinglife.org. Sequences from outside North America are flocking in, including a recent set from western Australian parrots, contributed by Peter Spencer, Murdoch University. Quoting P. Spencer “these species are generally…
The Sunday 5 June Independent published an excellent article about forests by Andrew Marszal that reports on our recent analysis of forest density….
…the description is available to subscribers or by payment per article. My summary: 1 new species, found across the street from one of the world’s premier natural history research institutions,…
…average 118 thousands hours, while it is only 67 thousands hours for the 1950 cohort. As a percent of total number of hours available to a man, the decline is…
…filling available geographical niches, the only way to expand is intensification. Agriculture essentially reduces the amount of land needed to support a person. The fruits of agriculture consequently support the…
Claire Williams’ book Landscapes, Genomics, and Transgenic Conifers to which we contributed “Foresters and DNA†is now available from Amazon where the site features our opening sentence: “The decoding of…
Considered the world’s first certified organic love song, Whole Wheat Woman is now available for your listening pleasure. In the spring of 1972 Jesse Ausubel had the fun of assisting…