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Progress in biodiversity informatics

…https://eol.org/data_search  Tony Rees, one of the builders of the Ocean Biographical Information System, has created the wonderful Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera, especially notable for information on…

Polartide.org

…are contributing, with your clicks, to the way the artwork sounds. More info at https://polartide.org/help.html Team: Greg Niemeyer (Data Artist); Chris Chafe (Composer); Perrin Meyer (Producer)); Rama Gottfried (Sound Artist)…

Special Report

…after being named chairman of the oil giant, Mark Moody-Stuart unveiled far-reaching plans to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. The company first parted ways with Big Oil’s mainstream when it quickly endorsed

Godfather – The Scientist

…model for a run. They fed it false data and tried to take advantage of it. The model resisted, rejecting the spurious values. But they tricked my model, forced it…

2020 declared Year of Quiet Ocean – News from International Quiet Ocean Experiment

…to find out  https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/wildlife-biodiversity/what-happened-when-the-oceans-went-quiet-during-the-pandemic-scientists-set-to-find-out-76387 The National News, United Arab Emirates Oceans silenced by Covid to reveal impact of human activity on marine life https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/oceans-silenced-by-covid-to-reveal-impact-of-human-activity-on-marine-life-1.1199684 COSMOS Magazine, Australia Year of the…

Full PDR issue online

…article about Peak Farmland is now online: Population and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of Paul Demeny https://www.popcouncil.org/publications/books/2012_PDRSuppPopPublicPolicy.asp and will be published on Wiley’s Population and Development Review site shortly….

Decarbonization: The Next 100 Years

…essentially continuous batteries, can be fed by hydrogen extracted from methane.  In replacing the internal combustion engine, they will multiply automotive efficiencies and slash pollutants. Wood and coal fogged and blackened

Maglevs and the Vision of St. Hubert [PDF]

JH Ausubel. Challenges of a Changing Earth 175–182 2002 (Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 10-13 July 2001)

…cluster of innovations including tractors, seeds, chemicals, and irrigation, joined through timely information flows and better organized markets, raised the yields to feed billions more without clearing new fields. We…

On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest

JH Ausubel. Forestry at the Great Divide: Proceedings of the Society of American Foresters 2001 Convention, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda MD 127–138 2002

…came at the level of the farm, because the machines freed land that had produced feed for draft animals to produce for other purposes. In short, tractors released workers from…