ScienceDaily: Top Environment News: Helping growers mitigate costly droughts

Jay OwenDesert Greening

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News     Helping growers mitigate costly droughts Posted: 18 Jun 2014 09:20 AM PDT The Agricultural Reference Index for Drought, or ARID, used more than 100 years of climate data to reasonably predict drought levels in crops on several farms in Florida and Georgia. Scientists say …

SIS scientific publication November 2013 The New Genetics and Natural versus Artificial Genetic Modification

Jay OwenEarth Systems Science, Nature/Biomimicry

SIS scientific publication November 2013 The New Genetics and Naturalversus Artificial Genetic Modification###################################################################Mae-Wan Ho, Entropy 2013, 15, 4748-81.Abstract: The original rationale and impetus for artificial geneticmodification was the “central dogma” of molecular biology that assumed DNAcarries all the instructions for making an organism, which are transmittedvia rna to protein to …

Dr. Mae-Wan Ho joins Ethical Markets Advisory Board

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Mae-Wan Ho, B. Sc. Hon. (First Class) and Ph. D. Hong Kong University, Director of Institute of Science in Society (website www.i-sis.org.uk archived by the British Library as part of national documentary heritage), Chief Editor and Art Director of its quarterly trend-setting magazine, Science in Society, is best known for pioneering work on …

Himalayan glaciers will shrink by almost 10 percent, even if temperatures hold steady

Ethical MarketsEarth Systems Science

Himalayan glaciers will shrink by almost 10 percent, even if temperatures hold steady Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:46 AM PST If Bhutan’s climate did not warm, glaciers in the monsoonal Himalayas would still shrink by almost 10 percent within the next few decades. What’s more, the amount of melt water …