Leonardo DNA project

…sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example, BBC radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tb7ht Gizmodo, USA The…

Optimistic About Our Environmental Future

…60 to 70 years the world farmer reaches the average yield of today’s USA corn grower, the 10 billion people likely to live on Earth will need only half of…

Rare mineral species

…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…

Special Report

…diseases that flourish in tropical climates. But with most of the world’s top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies immersed in research for heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis, there isn’t…

CoML – Arctic Project

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,…

A Turn for the Better

…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…

The Census of the Fishes: Concept Paper

Jesse H. Ausubel. phe.rockefeller.edu, January 1997

…distribution and abundance of marine life. Sea life holds great interest for the public in the USA and around the world. Aquariums and exhibitions on marine life in natural history…