Posted by Ida Kubiszewski on June 30th, 2007
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Drs. F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario J. Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Paul Crutzen “for their work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone.” They were the first scientists to warn that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) released into the atmosphere were depleting the earth’s critical ozone layer. […]
Posted by Administrator on June 30th, 2007
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Posted by Ida Kubiszewski on June 22nd, 2007
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Dr. Dasgupta, who was born in Dhaka (at that time in India) and educated in Varanasi, Delhi, and Cambridge, is the Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics and past Chairman (1997-2002) of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge. He taught at the London School […]
Posted by Cutler J. Cleveland on June 22nd, 2007
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What is an externality?
It is an ancillary effect of production or consumption for which no internal cost is incurred, typically when the actions of firms and individuals have an effect on others than themselves; e.g., pollution of a river that negatively affects the health of people living downstream rather than employees of the firm releasing […]
Posted by maggie.surface on June 21st, 2007
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Arco, Idaho (43°38′5″ North, 113°18′5″ West) was the first city in the world to receive its electricity from nuclear power on July 17, 1955. At the conclusion of World War II, the U.S. became interested in developing nuclear energy as a power source. A series of wartime efforts, as part of the Manhattan Project, led to the discovery of a sustained fission reaction by Enrico Fermi in 1942,
Posted by Ida Kubiszewski on June 16th, 2007
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Dr. Sala is a marine ecologist actively engaged in research, teaching, and communicating scientific information. Enric examines scientific solutions for marine biodiversity and coastal ecosystems using a historical context. He co-leads the innovative IGERT Ph.D. program on marine biodiversity and conservation that incorporates natural sciences, economics, social sciences, marine policy and law, and […]
Posted by Radha Chitale on June 16th, 2007
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What is marine biodiversity?
Marine biodiversity is the variety of life in the sea, encompassing variation at all levels, from within species to across ecosystems. Biodiversity is not a simple concept like temperature or volume but rather it has multiple dimensions. It can thus be measured in different and complementary ways and have different units.
How […]
Posted by Ida Kubiszewski on June 8th, 2007
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Philip M. Fearnside is a Research Professor in the Department of Ecology at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA) in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. He is a permanent resident in Brazil where he has lived in Amazonia for over 30 years doing ecological research. He also has field experience in India, […]
Posted by Ida Kubiszewski on June 8th, 2007
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1500
Pedro Cabral “discovers” Brazil and claims it for Portugal. Indigenous populations are decimated by violence and disease.
1864
First steamboats on the Amazon River, greatly facilitating access to the interior of the region.
1888
Rubber boom begins in earnest with John Boyd Dunlop’s invention of the pneumatic tire. Some rubber extraction had been taking place since 1839, when […]
