mapping our impact on the oceans

The UC Santa Barbara-based National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis has published in today’s Science a “Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosytems.”  You can see the map here.
“We still understand very little of the ocean’s biodiversity and how it is changing under our influence,” says the report, which represents an effort to [...]

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for a little perspective . . .

Natalie Angier writes in the NY Times today about the creation of synthetic microbes. But as interesting is what she reports about new research into the breadth of microbial life on our planet.
She quotes Dr. Craig Venter, of the J. Craig Venter Institute.
“From our random sequencing in the ocean, we uncovered six million new [...]

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more articles about water

The new issue of Science reports on “a coming crisis in water supply for the western United States,” the Associated Press tells us today.
“Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study [...]

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