Monomania is a serious disorder, characterized by, according to my dictionary, “excessive concentration on a single object or idea.” In the case of much of American farming, that single object is the ...
Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1 billion to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...
Our “Plastic to Oil Fantastic” video brief about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral and exceeded 3.7 million views on YouTube. This is evidence that concern over “the ...
The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...
Agroforestry — the integration of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock systems — has strong potential in addressing problems of food insecurity in developing countries. Done well, it allows ...
Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for ...
Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report ...
In 1985, Li Hua visited a valley in the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau. The area was better known for its panda population, but the oenologist realized that its high altitude, hours of sunshine, ...
The raging epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa underscores the urgent need for international cooperation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. With its epicenter in Guinea, ...
作家のトマス・ベリー氏はエコ生代を 「より大きな生態学的意識への人類の努力の再統合」と表現した。ベリー氏は、エコ生代が人新世に取って代わると信じていた 。人新世とは現在私 ...
2023年6月に出た歴史的な判決の中で、米最高裁は人種を意識した大学入学者選考は違憲という判断を下した。この判決は、米国の高等教育機関への入学者選考におけるアファーマティブ ...
人工知能(AI)は瞬く間に私たちの日常生活に欠かせない存在となり、医療、教育、金融、エンターテインメントなど、幅広い分野に影響を及ぼしている。AIが進化し続ける中、その使用法を ...