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[UC Newsroom RSS Feed] University of California - UC Newsroom | Climate 'tipping points ...: As U.S. presidential science adviser John Holdren (not an author of the new UC Davis study) recently told a congressional committee: "Climate scientists worry about 'tipping points' … thresholds beyond which a small additional increase in average temperature or some associated climate variable results in major changes to the affected system."

[Suite101: Biology Articles] GM Crops: Food of the Future?: Dispute Over the Advantages and ...: Genetically modified crops have made a big splash in the news lately. During Oxford Farming Conference, held in London early this month, the British government's chief scientist Professor John Beddington warned that Britain must embrace genetically modified (GM) crops and cutting-edge developments to avoid catastrophic food shortages and future climate change.

[Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews / Body & Brain] Bacteria Flourish In Favorite Ecosystems On The Human Body ...: Assessing the body’s different microbial habitats will help researchers understand the intimate link between the human body and the microbiome ”” the bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in and on the body. These microbes ”” estimated to outnumber human cells by at least a factor of 10 ”” usually coexist with the human body in peaceful harmony, playing important roles in health, such as aiding digestion and preventing harmful infections.

[MoJo Articles] Can Biology Clean Up Sewage and Oil Spills? | Mother Jones: Go With the Flow Inventor John Todd's Eco-Machines use tanks of bacteria, fungi, plants, snails, and fish to digest sewage, releasing water clean enough to be reused for plumbing or irrigation. The man-made ecosystems can filter up to .

[eScholarship Repository] eScholarship: Tidal marsh restoration at Triangle marsh, Marin County: Tidal marsh restoration at Triangle marsh, Marin County. IN: Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Eds.

[IPSA @ Wagner] Spring Conference Updates « IPSA @ Wagner: Before coming to UCS, he was a AAAS Science-Policy Fellow in the State Department’s Bureau of Economics, Energy, and Business Affairs (EEB), where he managed the biofuels partnership with Brazil and supported U.S. diplomatic relations concerning low-carbon energy technologies.  At State, he also strengthened EEB’s relations with the academic community.

[PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] PLoS ONE: Rapid Decline of a Grassland System and Its Ecological ...: White RP, Murray S, Rohweder M (2000) Pilot Analysis of Global Eosystems: Grassland Ecosystems. Washington, D.

[tcob1.net | Technology Blog] Biotechnology and Environmental Biosafety | tcob1.net | Technology ...: George Wald, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1967), Higgins Professor of Biology at the Harvard University, “potentially it could breed new animal and plant diseases, new sources of cancer and novel epidemics”. ...

[Watts Up With That?] Brace for the tipping point « Watts Up With That?: “Many scientists are looking for the warning signs that herald sudden changes in natural systems, in hopes of forestalling those changes, or improving our preparations for them,” said UC Davis theoretical ecologist Alan Hastings. “Our new study found, unfortunately, that regime shifts with potentially large consequences can happen without warning ”” systems can ”˜tip’ precipitously.

[Accelerating Future] Accelerating Future » The Religion of Science: If a bit naive at times, your commentary is intelligent, more often balanced than not, and very insightful. The human need for advanced technology is evident from the vast amount of death and illness and suffering in the world today.

[Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Botanical Whales - Science News: I’m tagging along with marine biologists on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s research vessel the Nancy Foster. Though my first three days with nothing but water in all directions have been thrilling, I haven’t shaken some bone-deep sense that I don’t belong here and that air-breathing land creatures visit the seas on sufferance.

[Opinionator» Olivia Judson] A Wild Celebration - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: “The ecosystem services framework and natural capital conservation.” Environmental and Resource Economics 39: 25-35. The fact that our economics does not price nature, and the problems that leads to, was spotted long ago by Aldo Leopold ”” he describes it eloquently in the foreword to his book “A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There,” which he wrote in 1948.

[Suite101: Marine Biology blog] Biological Articles Covering Many Topics: As we move along the shore horizontally we can move from sheltered bays to exposed headlands. The effects of this exposure to increased wave action will have a dramatic influence on the types of plants and animals that can survive.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Vanity Fair visits the ...: “What the author finds so shocking ”” that a Christian worldview carries implications for all those “-onomies” and “-ologies” ”” is simply a basic understanding that all truth is God’s truth, and that everything in the created world falls under the sovereign rule of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

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