PNAS Dematerialization

…with less harm to the environment has long moderated human impact. Does recent experience justify hope for sustaining this beneficial dematerialization, especially the decarbonization of national and global carbon emission?…

Dinochelus ausubeli

Shane T. Ahyong (Australian Museum), Tin-Yam Chan (National Taiwan Ocean University), and Philippe Bouchet (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris) have honored Jesse by naming a magnificent newly discovered lobster the…

Microbial diversity

world of plants and animals, we have a far weaker grasp on the question of whether global microbial diversity is increasing, decreasing, or staying the same. In an article published…

Census of Marine Life in the news

The deep sea projects of the Census of Marine Life make news with their discoveries, as for example covered by AP’s Cain Burdeau in a 22 November 2009 story “Thousands…

An International Quiet Ocean Experiment

IL Boyd, G Frisk, E Urban, P Tyack, J Ausubel, S Seeyave, D Cato, B Southall, M Weise, R Andrew, T Akamatsu, R Dekeling, C Erbe, D Farmer, R Gentry, T Gross, A Hawkins, F Li, K Metcalf, JH Miller, D Moretti, C Rodrigo, and T Shinke. Oceanography 24 (2): 174–181 2011 doi:10.5670/oceanog.2011.37

National Material Metrics for Industrial Ecology [PDF]

IK Wernick, JH Ausubel. Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition 157-174 1999 This paper was originally published in the journal Resources Policy Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 189-198 (1995), Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, England.