…the critics did not understand the difficulties of working with the remaining unpublished documents that are mostly a collection of fragile fragments of parchment.” New York Times September 5, 1991…
…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…
Jesse’s essay “Will the Rest of the World Live Like America?” appears in Technology in Society’s 25th anniversary issue. https://phe.rockefeller.edu/PDF_FILES/LiveLikeAmerica.pdf…
…of toxic waste. The really bad news is that most of the planet’s 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the…
Produced by PHE associate and acoustician Perrin Meyer, polartide.org is an interactive meditation on time, oil stocks, and sea levels for the Maldives Pavillion at the 55th Venice Biennale. polartide…
…pdf for download). According to Chapman’s analysis, there are 1.9 million published species in the world. Approximately 18,000 new species are described each year, 75% of which are invertebrates, 11%…
…the first World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring Day in June. The newsletter also provides updates on the global hydrophone metadatabase, low-cost hydrophones, and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on ocean…
…genes, there are 2,629 COI sequences from 1,071 species (2.6% world) and 2,268 12S/16S sequences from 1,041 species (2.6% world). Thus it appears that only about 1/40th of world’s spiders…
…from the United States, with the remaining $500 million expected to be contributed by Japan, Europe and other participants including Australia, Michel said. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company…
The 13th Newsletter of the International Quiet Ocean Experiment, now online, include updates on the Global Library of Underwater Sounds (GLUBS) and the World Ocean Passive Acoustic Monitoring (WOPAM) day….