Southwestern Monsoon brings nearly double normal rain Standing water can bring mosquitoes B. POOLE Published: 07.31.2008 It has been a wet, blustery monsoon, and that’s just the way a University of Arizona researcher called it in June. On June 4 – weeks before the rains came – atmospheric sciences professor… Continue reading
To read longer, more detailed versions of the 4 press releases below, go to: http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/atmospheric.php ————————- Public Release: 1-Aug-2008 Integrative and Comparative Biology The emerging scientific discipline of aeroecology Aeroecology is the emerging discipline for studying how airborne organisms — birds, bats, arthropods and microbes — depend on the support… Continue reading
Published on Monday, July 28, 2008 by The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) Small Farming Is the Future by Jim Goodman Napoleon wanted France to be bigger. He wanted more land. Nothing stopped him until Waterloo. Have we, the human race, met our Waterloo? Have we finally hit the wall with… Continue reading
Published on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 by Inter Press Service Colombian Indigenous Groups in Danger of Disappearing by Constanza Vieira BOGOTA – The Permanent People’s Tribunal warned in its final statement on Colombia of “the imminent danger of physical and cultural extinction faced by 28 indigenous groups,” adding that 18… Continue reading