Posted on July 31, 2010 by J.A. Ginsburg
Idea first floated at the TEDxOilSpill conference by Francis Belland of the X Prize Foundation and David Gallo of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute becomes real. Since the BP gusher started spewing millions of gallons of crude oil and methane into the Gulf of Mexico more that three months ago, there have other high profile spills, [...]
Filed under: TrackerBlog, oil | Tagged: China, BP, Nigeria, Deepwater Horizon, Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean-up X Challenge, Peter Diamandis, X Prize, Gulf Oil Spill, Michigan | Leave a Comment »
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 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 [...]
Filed under: CAFOs, TrackerBlog, TrackerNews, agriculture, air pollution, disease surveillance, epidemiology, maps, swine flu | Tagged: swine flu, factory farms, CDC, H1N1 pandemic influenza, underlying conditions, Reston ebolavirus, obesity, pregnancy, immune system, cytokine storm, Frog & Peach, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Joel Salatin, Polyface farms, Russ Kremer, MRSA, tamiflu | Leave a Comment »
