Reality of German Renewables
We admire everything that Vaclav Smil writes, for both his insights and lively style.  This essay, How Green Is Europe?, exemplifies the bracing cold shower one receives from reading…
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Environmental Populism
On September 23, 2019 PHE Senior Research Associate Iddo Wernick delivered at talk on ‘Environmentalism and Populism‘ at at meeting of the Breakthrough Institute in Middleburg, Virginia….
Naming names faster (addendum)
In yesterday’s post I placed “integrative taxonomy” on a spectrum with morphologic taxonomy at one end and “DNA taxonomy” as applied to eubacteria/archaebacteria at the other. Mehrdad Hajibabaei pointed out…
DNA helps identify African agricultural pests
Among the 35,000 known species of noctuid moths, a number are destructive agricultural pests, including for example Corn earworm Helicoverpa zea and Tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens. Accurate identification is the…
Ocean Exploration in Caribbean
Oceanography magazine published its Supplement covering the 2013 field season of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus in the Caribbean. Jesse Ausubel participated in the field season and is a co-author of…
Iddo on resource demands of renewables
PHE senior research associate Iddo Wernick publishes an op-ed in RealClear Science: Green Technologies Have a Glaring Problem of Scale…
Small houses on big lots
Most animal species correspond to tight clusters of mtDNA distinct from those closely-related species. In real estate terms, most species are small houses on big lots. Small houses because intraspecific…
On the Limits to Knowledge of Future Marine Biodiversity
Jesse’s opening keynote address On the Limits to Knowledge of Future Marine Biodiversity from a Scripps Institution of Oceanography conference on that subject appears in The Electronic Journal of Sustainable…
Ground beetles join in
…nuclear markers gave 95% discrimination. The one species pair with shared COI haplotypes also showed identical nuclear markers. Two species exhibited distinct COI clusters (intra-specific p-distances 2.7%, 3.8%), 1 of…
PopSci Profile
The July 2010 issue of Popular Science (pp. 54-55) features a profile of Jesse in its Environmental Visionaries series….