Me, plant genomics, and North China.
Well, I’m off to north China next week, although unlike Nigeria, it sounds like I’ll be wired in and still able to contribute to the blog.…
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As a nation we are consumed by the food we eat. We worry about our next meal as soon as we start to feel those tell-tale…
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Will moved his toe in the cold water. Leaves exhaled the last breath of fall. Genevieve listened. “In geological time, all this, this big catastrophe, it’s…
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SENSibility 3: Time for an Extinction Clock?
By Allen Sens,
Earlier this month the World Conservation Union identified more than 16,000 species threatened with extinction. Prospects for survival improved for exactly one species on the planet…
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