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Doomed Dome: The Future That Never Was

September 30, 2009 37939 Views 74 Comments

In the bright and shiny future, we all live in green, gleaming communities, monorailed shuttles at the ready, climate-controlled at all times -- a sort of Logan’s Run, but without the forced euthanasia.

THE END OF THE BEGINNING: Biotech Enters A New Phase

September 16, 2009 3829 Views 1 Comment

This past May, I joined some 14,000 of my closest friends at the international biotechnology conference, BIO 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia. The gossip started immediately: What happened to the other 6,000 of us that came last year? Is biotech in trouble?

Increased climate volatility expected to worsen poverty vulnerability in developing countries

August 20, 2009 3466 Views No Comments

A new study supported by the World Bank has for the first time tried to combine, understand and predict the effects of climate change on food prices and wages in developing countries to assess how badly different socio-economic strata in sixteen vulnerable countries will be hit by extreme weather conditions, associated with climate change such as annual-scale hot, dry and wet extremes.