An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…
…individuals, firms, or the planet. Goals provide orientation. They help actors to aspire and measure progress. In 1999, John Spears, a consultant to the World Bank, developed a preliminary, quantitative…
…the same area, the average world farmer grows only about 20 percent of the corn of the top Iowa farmer, and the average Iowa farmer lags more than 30 years…
…the cities to ease traffic and expand badly needed, and energetically superior, metro networks as well as water supply and sewer systems. To conclude about coal, we should squeeze the…
…2050, forests will dwindle by 200 million hectares — about five times the area of California — and lumberjacks will regularly shave about 40 percent of forests. Along the other,…
…walking, USA per capita mobility has increased 2.7%/yr and the French about the same. Europeans currently travel at about 35 km per hour and per day, because people travel about…
…huge and influential enterprise. Roughly half of all young people enter a higher education institution. About 15 million students currently enroll. Faculty number about 900,000. In 1995, spending totaled close…
…of about 0.5%. During the same period GDP was rising about 3% per year. The difference of about 2.5% between them is the decline in the intensity of use of…
…so on average the duration was much shorter.[2] At age 10 males expected only about 48 more years of life, and at age 20 about 40 more years. With a total…
…789-7826 Richard E. Stuckey, Executive Vice President, (515) 292-2125, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology 4420 West Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50014-3447, USA phone: (515) 292-2125, fax: (515) 292-4512 Internet: cast@netins.net…