The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects
…scientists converged on a strategy to address their concerns: conduct a worldwide Census whose purpose would be to assess and to explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. …
…scientists converged on a strategy to address their concerns: conduct a worldwide Census whose purpose would be to assess and to explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. …
…Greater wealth enables people to buy higher speed, and when transit quickens, cities spread. Both average wealth and numbers will grow, so cities will take more land. What are the…
…of Medicine, and the National Research Council. You can read or buy our book Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment here, as well as many older books and reports edited…
…spread. Before giving the answer, let me broaden the context. GREAT REVERSAL, GREAT RESTORATION By the 1990s evidence accumulated that several major environmental indicators had passed an inflection point (Ausubel…
…once the interface between mechanical and electrical power had been i nvented, the niche for expansion proved immense.3 Power for the Workshop Since the Middle Ages, water wheels had provided…
…gigawatts at each site, nuclear plants already add consequential amounts of energy to the world’s energy supply and continue to offer advantages for large additions to capacity. Either once-through or…
…the angular Morgulyev. Don Gvishiani greeted the engineer with an embrace. They had played together as children and had grown up in friendship. They had both arranged to win scholarships…
…wood. Instead of logging half the world’s forests, humanity can leave almost 90 % of them minimally disturbed. And nearly all new tree plantations are established on abandoned croplands, which…
…far, in a free online service (https://www.eol.org/). “There are expectations of 8 to 50 million more species out there that we haven’t identified yet,” Edwards said. Other experts’ estimates of…
…overall, had the log-to-lumber efficiency remained at -1970 levels, meeting 1993 market demand would have required 48 million cubic meters more timber. Without composites displacing lumber, an additional 32 million…