…are of no consequence or lost in the ruckus of history. To offer a flippant but telling example, Europeans, Americans, and Japanese ski much more now than we did in…
…food webs, limiting factors, energy and material budgets) and rules (e.g., Cope’s rule that increase in body size confers adaptive advantages, the least work principle). Also valuable might be an…
…MacCleery, D. W. 1992. American forests: A history of resiliency and recovery. USDA Forest Service Report FS-540. Malenbaum, W. 1978. World demand for raw materials in 1985 and 2000. New York:…
…comment. Most obviously, the Russian Revolution and World War II literally drove Russians back into the woods to collect their fuel. Yet, these extreme shocks were later absolutely absorbed. By…
…name in quotes in case readers didn’t get the reference, hard to imagine today!). One year and a second Banbury workshop later the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL)…
…information. If during the next 60 to 70 years, the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s U.S. corn grower, 10 billion people will need only half of today’s…
…impossible feat for a world that built today’s worldwide fleet of some 430 nuclear power plants in about 30 years. Combined with other offset strategies, ZEPPs, together with another generation…
…Awards <https://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html> program to support organizations using technology and innovative approaches to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. A project at the Smithsonian Institution<https://www.google.com/giving/impact-awards.html#consortium> devoted to reducing illegal wildlife…
…year. 20 At the height of the rail era, an American took one rail trip each year. 21 Also, people mostly travel to meet people. Of American travel time, about 30 percent is…
…d’écoute sur les océans apaisé par Covid https://yourtopia.fr/un-reseau-mondial-decoute-sur-les-oceans-apaise-par-covid-france-24/ BBC News Online, Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans’ ‘year of quiet’ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56676820 BBC World Service Radio, 1st story, with Ed…