Saving The Coral - Australia Experiments with Assisted Evolution
November 2, 2015 - In a place called SeaSim, Australian and international teams of scientists are studying coral reefs in conditions that simulate the potential changes that climate change will bring...
View ArticleStrengthening Honeybees through Genomics
November 5, 2015 - There is no field in biomedicine that appears to be advancing more rapidly than genomics. Mapping our DNA and that of the planet's many species is creating new bodies of knowledge...
View ArticleCosta Rica - A Laboratory for Deep De-Carbonization
November 24, 2015 - When Costa Rica submitted its read more
View ArticleDoes Bioengineering Provide an Answer to Global Warming?
December 6, 2015 - Back in 2012 I wrote a posting entitled "If the Climate Changes Wouldn't it be Easier to Change Us?" It seemed bizarrely logical that since we were altering the global environment...
View ArticleFood Waste and Climate Change: They Are Related
December 20, 2015 - We humans waste 1.3 billion tons of food every year. The loss amounts to 2 to 3% of global gross domestic product (GDP). It happens on a planet where one in nine of us is...
View ArticleI'm Tired of Reading Editorial Opinion that States COP 21 was a Failure
December 21, 2015 - Today is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere of our planet, and here in Toronto we are being told that Christmas and this month of December will likely be the warmest...
View ArticlePacific Blob Weakens While El Nino Intensifies - Weather and Climate Change...
January 4, 2016 - At the end of the last Ice Age, an obstructive ice dam in the St.read more
View ArticleAre There Unintended Consequences if We Rid Ourselves of Zika Spreading...
February 16, 2016 - We have the means today to create an extinction event for Aedes aegypti, the mosquito currently blamed for the spread of the read more
View ArticleIn Searching for Extraterrestrial Life We Need to Better Understand Life Here...
February 27, 2016 - The first time I saw pictures of fossils from the Burgess Shales of Western Canada (see image below) I became intrigued about how complex life emerged here on Earth some 540 million...
View ArticleOn Leap Day How Much Obligation Should We Feel Towards Future Generations?
February 29, 2016 - This is only the second opportunity for me to write a posting here at 21st Century Tech blog on a leap day. In 2012, my first Leap Day I wrote about urban landscapes and the...
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