We have posted an article that appeared today in Science magazine, “Temperate Forests Gain Ground”, that discusses the paper “Searching for Leverage to Conserve Forests: The Industrial Ecology of Wood…
We have posted an article by Greg Easterbrook that appeared today in The New Republic magazine, “America the O.K. -Why life in the U.S. has never been better,” that quotes…
…gallon — about three times the mileage of today’s average car. Meanwhile, the industry continues to oppose measures to reduce CO2 emissions contained in the Kyoto accord. They “would go…
An article in the February 2010 issue of Physics Today highlights the recent Richard Lounsbery Foundation efforts in science & diplomacy whose underlying logic Jesse articulated in 2001 with Alex…
What’s in the world’s most popular beverage-tea? Mark Stoeckle helped lead three NYC high school students on a DNA barcoding investigation of commercial tea products, published today in Nature’s online…
…mail-order identification services, analogous to today’s DNA ancestry companies, that do DNA barcode analysis of submitted specimens, and, as others have envisioned, soon enough there will be table-top or hand-held…
…barcoding was published in February 2003. The results displayed today on BOLD Taxonomy Browser demonstrate amazing progress in a short time, thanks to the inspiration and hard work of many!…
…Their work appears today in Nature Publishing Group’s open access journal Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130911/srep02635/full/srep02635.html The resulting Klee diagrams are both beautiful and scientifically informative. In the figure below, bird and…
…should help drive technological improvements analogous to those spawned by the Human Genome Project which enabled its completion for a fraction of the originally projected cost. As of today, researchers…
…in the future will be due primarily to taxonomic revaluations, that is to shifts from specific to subspecies status and vice versa.” As of today, the IOC World Bird List…