Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
In the middle of the Lindsey Graham climate and clean energy bill saga, Joe Romm steps back and looks at things from a broader political perspective. He gets to the heart of the matter on why climate change legislation is such an avoided topic in the US, comparing current US conservative politics to current UK conservative politics on this issue.
A study is about to be published by scientists at the independent RIKILT - Institute for Food Safety in Wageningen, Netherlands. It will appear in the next edition of Plant Biotechnology Journal - a prestigious, peer reviewed publication. The study followed gene expression, protein levels and other metabolites associated with 60,000 genes in corn. They compared different corn hybrids, [...]
The Political Scientist, Robert Paarlberg (Wellsley, Harvard – Weatherhead Center for International Affairs) has just published a new book (Oxford University Press) titled, “Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know.” I would recommend it highly to anyone who cares about international food issues, sustainability and the like. It is a succinct, easy to read, but well-documented discussion [...]
(Originally appeared at TenthMil.com) Coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems in the ocean, harboring thousands of species from plankton all the way up to fish like the grouper and snapper. Covering less than a quarter of a percent of the ocean’s surface, coral reefs support twenty-five percent of all marine life! Coral reefs also [...]
As I described in an earlier post, I was privileged to attend a DOE-sponsored scientific meeting last week about how the fast-moving science of “Genomics” is being applied to issues related to climate change. This was a meeting of scientists who are using state-of-the-art genetic technology, and in this post I’ll talk about how they are using that [...]
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