Shrinking footprint of meat in US
“The Shrinking Footprint of American Meat” by Iddo Wernick and Jesse Ausubel is published by The Breakthrough Institute. We estimate that between 1969 and 2014 the amount of cropland used…
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July issue of Fisheries
The July issue of Fisheries, the magazine of the American Fisheries Society, contains Jesse’s update ‘The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects.’ We post the paper Nitrogen on the…
Can Technology Spare the Earth?
We post the 1996 American Scientist magazine article Can Technology Spare the Earth?…
On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest
We post Jesse’s “On Sparing Farmland and Spreading Forest.” Prepared as a plenary talk for the September 2001 Denver convention of the Society of American Foresters, it was not delivered…
Centennial meeting of petroleum geologists
Jesse Ausubel speaks in Houston at the 4 April 2017 session of the centennial meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists on the next 100 years of energy use….
The Electric Power Research
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) celebrated the 90th birthday of EPRI founder Chauncey Starr with a seminar on the prospects for a North American continental supergrid for electricity transmission,…
Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer
…contributer to the steady decline in cardiovascular deaths since 1965 and the more recent flattening of cancer-deaths. For example, epidemiologists associated with the American Cancer Society recently reported a 30%…
DNA helps reveal bat diets
…the 127,000 reference sequences of North American arthropods in BOLD database www.barcodinglife.org at the time of the study. Test sequences with >/=99% identity to reference sequence(s) and without equivalent similarity…
East Coast eDNA researchers
Our environmental DNA discovery of unusual fish is featured in the American Fisheries Society blog. The post highlights the growing complement of East Coast eDNA researchers, including our NOAA colleague…
ANSI Standards for DNA Barcodes
DNA barcoding gains another level of community acceptance–the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will publish “Species-Level Identification of Animal Cells through Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) DNA Barcodes”…