…largest city with perhaps 10 million people. Today Japan’s Shinkansen Corridor extending from Tokyo to Osaka houses some 80 million. Worldwide the human population is now 55 percent urban. By…
The Deep Carbon Observatory, which Jesse Ausubel has helped create and manage, offers some new short, enjoyable videos about its work. For example, Deep life Volcano prediction…
…During the past half-century, ratios of crops to land for the world’s major grains-corn, rice, soybean, and wheat-have climbed fast on all six of the farm continents. Per hectare, world…
The new Arctic project of the Census of Marine Life is in the news today. The story was covered by all the big media outlets — BBC, CNN International, AP,…
…Jesse Ausubel served as a science advisor, great 30-second Japanese teaser: https://youtu.be/pRHfSgdCXMs And a 1 minute 42 second teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdLrFO06yM8 And one that shows some of the film’s techniques: https://www.facebook.com/LesSaisons.lefilm/videos/1132390206780130/…
The big London DNA barcoding jamboree earned extensive press coverage, ranging from BBC and CNN to Science. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/Marshall2005.pdf…
The Census of Marine Life, which Jesse has helped develop, is growing fast. The Associated Press has just issued a lively account of some of the nascent field projects….
…People enjoy the news – covered in at least 51 countries and 19 languages. BBC Earth’s rarest minerals catalogued https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35569659 DPA / APA (newswires, Germany, Austria) Weniger als ein Würfel…
…harm to the natural world. The world population grew almost fourfold in the 20th century, to 6 billion, creating sprawling cities that erased the natural landscape and sucked up natural…
…best growers in Iowa, the average Iowa grower, and the world average, says the world grows only about 20 percent of the top Iowa farmer. Interestingly, the production ratio of…