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A Natural Obsession
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Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
When delegates from 192 nations arrive in Copenhagen in December for the UN COP15 summit, they will confront a 181-page draft negotiation text, 2,000 bracketed passages still in [...]
Another Inconvenient Truth: The World’s Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma
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Solving climate change, the Sixth Great Extinction and population growth… at the same time
By 2050, the world will host nine billion people—and that’s if population growth slows in much of the developing world. Today, at least one billion people are chronically malnourished or starving. Simply to maintain that sad state of affairs would [...]
Computer Game Taps Creativity Of Scientists To Solve Energy Problems
The American Chemical Society’s (ACS) 238th National Meeting will be the site of a rare “thought experiment” intended to focus the creative genius of hundreds of scientists on solutions to one of the 21st Century’s most daunting problems: Finding sustainable new sources of energy.











































