Posted on July 27, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
The past as prologue: fortune-telling from tree rings; The Green Revolution hits the skids: genetically resilient pathogens and monoculture crops What happens when the future comes early? When does record-breaking weather segue from unfortunate inconvenience to an inconvenient truth? When… China reports massive floods affecting 75% of its provinces? The tally of dead and missing [...]
Filed under: TrackerBlog, agriculture, climate change, disease surveillance, drought, epidemiology, famine, floods, food, water | Tagged: climate change, hunger, An Inconvenient Truth, China floods, Russia drought, heat waves, tree ring data, extreme weather, Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, wheat stem rust, Ug99, blights, late blight, cassava virus, famine | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 17, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
A round up in September could spell the end for a small herd of wild horses out West. Why that matters more than you think: a tale of bureaucracy and special interests, horse meat and hot flashes, and wrongs that wouldn’t be that hard to right. Moments before September 11, 2001 turned into “9/11,” my [...]
Filed under: Horses, Jane Goodall, agriculture, climate change, epidemiology | Tagged: September 11, 9/11, World Trade Center, Twin Towers, terrorism, wild horses, Pryor Mountain wild horses, Ginger Kathrens, The Cloud Foundation, Bureau of Land Managment, BLM, cattle ranchers, the Burns bill, horse meat, horse sashimi, Lascaux cave paintings, Madeleine Pickins, Dayton O. Hyde, Premarin, Hormone Replacement Therapy, HRT, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, PZP, immunocontraceptive | 14 Comments »
Posted on July 23, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
The swine flu genie, now officially out of the bottle as a WHO-certified global pandemic, has left a trail of mostly non-lethal misery (so far) stretching across 145-and-counting countries. In the U.K., experts predict there could be as many as a 100,000 cases per day by August – which would also dash hopes for an [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2009 by J.A. Ginsburg
Last week, the World Health Organization ratcheted up its pandemic rating for swine flu (aka H1N1) all the way to an unprecedented “pandemic imminent” level 5, with a top-of-the-chart 6 considered inevitable. Was it time to wear masks? Stock up on Tamiflu and canned goods? Update wills? Pull out old high school lit-class copies of [...]
Filed under: TrackerNews, disease surveillance, epidemiology, swine flu | Tagged: Ian Lipkin, swine flu, H1N1, influenza, World Health Organization, epidemiology, WHO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Decameron, WHO phase of pademic alert, global public health, Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, Mass Tag PCR, GreeneChips and High Through-put Sequencing, rabies, 28 Days Later, Pop!Tech | Leave a Comment »
