Deep Carbon Observatory
In 2008, with Robert Hazen and Russell Hemley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Jesse helped initiate the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation….
Search Results for: world news cleantalkorg2.ru cnn news world news Share Market bbc news World News The New York Times Breaking News Live Updates
Leonardo DNA project chapter from Madrid exhibition catalogue
We post Leonardo DNA Project: Strategy, goals and aspirations. A bridge across science and art. This is the chapter from Leonardo da Vinci, The Faces of Genius, the superb 2019…
Thaler memo on “Distinguishing contamination from authentic human eDNA”
PHE guest investigator David Thaler summarizes “Ways in which contamination might be distinguished from authentic human eDNA” in a useful draft memo. Meeting this challenge matters greatly for using human…
Added online reprints Malthus
Added online reprints Malthus and the Graduate Studentsand Working Less and Living Longer. Link to the American Scientist web site with the abstract of Can Technology Spare the Earth?…
Decarbonization
Car & Driver magazine’s July 2012 issue features our work about decarbonization on pp. 32-33 in a column touting the potential of natural gas to fuel vehicles….
Selective sweeps limit mitochondrial diversity in animals
An exciting paper in Science 28 April 2006 “Population size does not influence mitochondrial genetic diversity in animals” by Eric Bazin, Sylvain Glemin, and Nicolas Galtier from Universite Montpellier, France,…
Merril Lynch Decarbonization
Robert Preston, a portfolio manager at Merrill Lynch, has started an energy investment fund based on the macro trend of de-carbonization, as explained in the 2nd paragraph of the fund…
Census reviews of China, European seas
Valuable papers continue to stream from the Census of Marine Life. We note: Liu JY (2013) Status of Marine Biodiversity of the China Seas. PLoS ONE 8(1): e50719. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050719 and…
Added section on Daedalus
Added section on Daedalus – The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences special issue on “the liberation of the environment.” We also updated our list of publications….
Viagra and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Always alert for surprising ways that technology may spare environment, we are delighted by papers showing that Viagra could spare threatened species in general and in particular ones exploited in…