JH Ausubel.
Earth Matters
46–47
2000
a magazine published by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Winter 1999/2000. This issue contains many of the speeches that were presented at the "State of The Planet" conference held at Columbia in the Fall of 1999.
…stopped plowing up more nature per capita. Meanwhile, growth in calories in the world’s food supply has continued to outpace population, especially in poor countries. Per hectare, farmers lifted world…
…filtering their own. Newspapers and television news programs have discovered that toxic releases in the Valley are nearly as sensational as kidnaping and murders. When the Fairchild story hit the…
JH Ausubel.
Technological Forecasting and Society Change
62 (2):
119–120
1999
The CIA for decades overstated the size of the Soviet economy and thus its threat to the USA. Worldwatchers have yearly forecast a food crisis from the exhaustion of soil…
…Systems (BOLD) to a checklist of world birds. barcodingbirds.org visitors can view world and regional progress reports, progress by orders and families, and detailed results for individual species including zoomable…
CR Frink, PE Waggoner, JH Ausubel.
Pollution Prevention Review
11 (3):
77–82
2001
…Today, fertilizer manufacturers have idle capacity. This, combined with weak agricultural markets in Europe and the U.S., reveal how groundless are fears that fertilizer use will soon explode. There is…
…under way,” he told delegates at the Global Change Open Science Conference, organized by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. The IGBP comes under the auspices of the International Council for Science…
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….
…to raise the standards to fight global warming, major U.S. auto makers say the public doesn’t want to drive econo-boxes on wheels. “In this market, fuel economy isn’t a driving…
JH Ausubel.
The Scientist
10 (3):
11
1996
…technical personnel to compete with the perceived scientific prowess of the Soviets. With fresh memories of the victories of science in World War II and ample tax revenues, the government…
Good news for taxonomic science: “New type of mouse discovered in Cyprus” today made headlines on 193 sites around the world including BBC, Reuters, CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox News, International…