Energy and Climate

…trajectory, combined with cultural change, can avert many environmental dangers.   Science has effectively alarmed many people about the chances human activities are harming Earth’s climate. More importantly, science and engineering…

Oceans

…oceans knowable to humans beyond what a sailor’s five senses could directly provide. By infiltrating the ocean with informationally connected sensors, humans are becoming the top experts on the oceans…

2013 papers from the Census of Marine Life:

…Victor Gallardo’s paper on the huge biomass of the filamentous bacteria off Chile & Peru: Extrapolations of Standing-Stocks of Big Bacteria in Humboldt Eastern Boundary Current Ecosystem The late Prof….

Animal species and mitochondria

…in and strongly supports Darwinian evolution, including the understanding all life has evolved from a common biological origin over several billion years. The study follows mainstream views of human evolution….

National Ocean Exploration Forum

…WorkBoat (blog)–Oct 20, 2016 “A lot of the difficulty with ocean exploration since Ulysses is we move slowly at sea,” said Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human

Empires

Presentation-style version (color) of the paper , Quantitative Dynamics of Human Empires, International Journal of Anthropology 27(1-2): 1-62, 2012…

Dematerialization

…IK Wernick, R Herman, S Govind, JH Ausubel. Materialization and dematerialization: Measures and trends. Pp 135-156 in Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment, JH Ausubel and HD Langford (eds) 1997…

Secret Forests of El Salvador

In 1992 we began to work on the question “How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?” that led to our recognition of the Great Reversal of human