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Book Talk: E. O. Wilson’s Bold Vision for Saving the World
Posted by National Geographic: Simon Worrall on November 2nd, 2014
National Geographic: Edward O. Wilson has been called the heir of Darwin. His relationship to National Geographic stretches back to 1939, when, as a ten-year-old boy, he read about insects in the magazine and made up his mind to be an entomologist. Last year, at the age of 84, he was awarded the National Geographic Society's highest award, the Hubbard Medal.
In his new book, The Meaning of Human Existence, he ranges far and wide across biology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. Speaking from his home near Boston,...
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U.N. Panel Issues Climate Warning
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
National Public Radio: The U.N.'s climate science panel has finished its report on global warming. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Michael Oppenheimer about the conclusion that humans are altering the Earth's climate.
France, US lead voices of alarm at climate report
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Agence France-Presse: France and the United States headed a chorus of alarm on Sunday after a major UN report on climate change warned that the Earth was on track for potentially disastrous global warming. France, which is hosting a UN conference in December 2015 that is supposed to seal cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions, said the report required "immediate, all-round mobilisation." "The message from this report is clear," the foreign ministry and environment ministry said in a joint statement. "The 2015 Paris agreement...
Sunderbans’ water getting toxic: Scientists
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 2nd, 2014
Times of India: Climate change is causing toxic metals trapped in the sediment beds of the Hooghly estuary in the Indian Sunderbans to leach out into the water system due to changes in ocean chemistry, say scientists, warning of potential human health hazards. They predict that after about 30 years, increasing ocean acidification - another dark side of spiked atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide - could in fact unlock the entire stock of metals like copper and lead gathered in the sediment layer, and release them...