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…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…
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The Census of Marine Life: Progress and Prospects
JH Ausubel. Fisheries
26 (7):
33–36
2001
…emphasized the chance for exciting discoveries about the world in which we live. Much remains to be discovered about life in the oceans. For example, ichthyologists have so far identified…
First World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) day
A child of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, today is the first World Ocean Passive Acoustics Monitoring (WOPAM) day. The IQOE leaders, including Miles Parsons and Steve Simpson, have prepared…
An article in Investor’s Business Daily
…the same gloomy future for oil. New Malthusians such as biologist Paul Ehrlich said population growth would soon lead to worldwide chaos. They all misread the signs, for much the…
Natural Restoration Promised if Humans Embrace Technology
…progress for another 60 to 70 years, average farm yields will reach those of the US corn farms and Chinese rice farms today. And as world population growth slows, “only…
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
…short time, the first NATO rupture of this kind. On one occasion, when a British frigate confronted an Icelandic gunboat on the high seas, the world’s press may have outnumbered…
Working Less and Living Longer: Long-Term Trends in Working Time and Time Budgets
JH Ausubel, Arnulf Grübler. Technological Forecasting and Social Change
50:
113–131
1995
…World War II, the length of female careers averaged under 20 years. In 1950 the average female career began stretching and has now reached 30 years. The average female work…
Growing Population May Need Less, Not More, Land to Feed Itself in Fifty Years
…and using the latest data from around the world, Waggoner proceeds to show how “smart farmers” can harvest more per plot and thus spare some of today’s cropland for Nature…
Encyclopedia of Life in the news
IT World and Boingboing run stories about progress of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Encyclopedia of Life: Better than Wikipedia! What leeches and ligers can teach you about evolution…
EOL Videos
The 8-9 May 2007 public launch of the Encyclopedia of Life included short appearances by Jesse on Reuters television and on the CBC evening news….