…papers in Nature and Science, as announced earlier this month at the close of Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference, University of Adelaide, Australia. To qualify, the paper must embrace…
Mark Stoeckle’s mentee, Samara Davis, earned the Grand prize in Science at the Genius Olympiad, an international high school project competition about environment issues, with her project on censusing threatened…
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…
The article Why should mitochondria define species? Stoeckle M.Y., Thaler D.S. is grounded in and strongly supports Darwinian evolution, including the understanding all life has evolved from a common biological…
DNA barcode databases are a kind of wikipedia of DNA identifiers, with contributions by thousands of researchers. How accurate are they? How do records that meet the BARCODE standard compare…
Last week’s post looked at amino acid variation among avian BARCODEs (11,000 sequences, 2,700 bird species). The findings were that common variants (present in >0.1% of sequences) are few and…
Massachusetts artist Olivia Pattison who paints an animal each day has painted the Dinochelus ausubeli, the deepwater lobster named for the Ausubel family….
In recognition of the Fifth International Barcode of Life Conference opening next week in Kunming, China, we offer Barcoding Life Highlights 2013. This eight page pdf takes a look…
PHE’s Iddo Wernick was named a Senior Fellow of the Breakthrough Institute for his work on the decoupling of resource use from the environment. This continues our connection with the…
Robert Bryce, author of several good books about energy and technology, published an article in Forbes magazine drawing on Program for the Human Environment work about industrialization of the oceans…