The Hidden Majority of Marine Life

For a lively summary of the latest news from the Census of Marine Life, including still images and videos, visit the news release about “hard-to-see” creatures. Learn about a carpet…

Can Technology Spare the Earth?

JH Ausubel. Am Sci 84 (2): 166–178 1996 Republished in Current Perspectives in Geology, Fourth Edition, Michael McKinney, Robert L. Tolliver, Parri Shariff, eds., Wadsworth, Boston, MA, 1998.

…of greatly diminishing our environmental burdens by increasing the productivity of our resources. Analysts, eager to assimilate the latest information, live life on the tangent, extrapolating brief fluctuations to eternity….

Daedalus, Summer 1996

…is dilution.’” –Robert A. Frosch “…the affinity between the two orders [the rules of nature and the rules of policy] becomes a challenge to contemporary politics…. nowadays it is a…

International Conflicts over Environment: Scientist’s Roles and Opportunities

JH Ausubel. Scientific Cooperation, State Conflict: The Role of Scientists in Mitigating International Discord, "Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences" 866: 253–258 1998

…continue, for example, between Peru and Ecuador. My cases are cod fish, Antarctica, atmospheric weapons testing, acid deposition, fresh water, and climate change. CASES Because war is the least ambiguous…

Reasons to Worry About the Human Environment

JH Ausubel. Journal of the Cosmos Club of Washington D.C 8 (1): 12 1998 Republished in Technology in Society 21:217-231, 1999. 

…are of no consequence or lost in the ruckus of history. To offer a flippant but telling example, Europeans, Americans, and Japanese ski much more now than we did in…

The Census of the Fishes: An Update

…notably diverse expertise and associations, endorsed it while considerably contributing to its definition. The workhops and consultations have suggested that three questions encapsulate the Census. What did live in the oceans? What does live

Toward a Census of Marine Life

JH Ausubel. Oceanography 12 (3): 4–5 1999

…official homepage of the COML is www.CoML.org. What did live in the oceans? What does live in the oceans? What will live in the oceans? These questions, compelling for society…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

A column about us, “Optimistic about our environmental future”, is syndicated in many newspapers across the country. By MITZI PERDUE, Scripps Howard News Service September 11, 2000 As director of…

Science and the Presidency

…of United States politics, including science in high politics. The greenhouse effect, the Valdez oil spill, and biodiversity; AIDS, tuberculosis, and other emerging diseases; fetal tissue research, genome mapping, DNA…