At the intersection of Marxism and development, this book reads Marx, Lenin, and Luxemburg alongside post-development and indigenous development theory.
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MBL begins first test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production
A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson, associate scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, has installed the first seaweed farm in Puerto Rico and US tropical waters. The research array furthers the design and development of a system for offshore cultivation of tropical seaweeds to support large-scale production of biomass for biofuels and other valuable bioproducts.
Puerto Rico has stable warm temperatures and ample sunlight year-round, as well as a wide range of exposure to prevailing winds and waves. These conditions make its southern coastline an ideal test bed for exploring how environmental conditions influence the biological, physiological, and chemical properties of cultivated macroalgae, as well as the impact of seaweed farms on the surrounding environment.
Utah Business For my fifth birthday, my grandmother gave me a hardcover book called
The Sea. This single gift determined the direction for the rest of my life.
The images in that book came to life in my mind as I imagined being underwater with them. Some were magical and inviting like the colorful fish, sea stars, and octopus. Some were frightening like the sharks and giant squid. The hours I spent looking at the pictures in that book turned into years of fascination with the underwater world.
One of the pictures showed a scuba diver and I asked my dad what his job was. A marine biologist was the answer, and so that’s when I decided what I would become. That idea became all the more real when “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” began to air on television every Sunday afternoon. From then on, whenever adults would ask what I wanted to be when I grew up―I said I wanted to be a marine biologist.
Creative Commons The Gold King Mine spill released about three million gallons of toxic water into the Animas River in 2015. It flowed downstream into the San Juan River.
Mining in the West often results in polluted watersheds, but a new study shows efforts to clean up leaking mines are extremely effective.
Researchers from Colorado State University, the University of California Santa Barbara and the U.S. Geological Survey worked on the study, which
The streams were all designated by the Environmental Protection Agency as Superfund sites, which means they were extremely polluted.
“They started off as being, if not devoid of life, pretty close to that,” said Will Clements, one of the researchers. “And then in a fairly short period of time, 10 to 15 years, they all had made this remarkable recovery.”