Analyzing the trade-offs of converting forests to farmland suggests the economic benefits outweigh the environmental costs in some places.
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Do crops sometimes make deforestation worth it?
Posted by National University of Singapore on August 7th, 2017
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No Comments »Does science depend on Christianity?
Posted by News on April 30th, 2017
From Jack Kerwick at Townhall: Though it will doubtless come as an enormous shock to such Christophobic atheists as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and their ilk, it is nonetheless true that one especially significant contribution that Christianity made to the world is that of science. No one has better established this than Rodney Stark, a […]
New Scientist frets over future backlash against science
Posted by News on November 24th, 2016
By 2076. From Michael Brooks at New Scientist: Will we still love technology when robots have taken our jobs, or when insurance companies demand huge premiums because humans are the most dangerous drivers on the roads? Will people smash up self-driving taxis, just as Luddites attacked automated looms? In some small, angry pockets, the backlash […]
90% of ivory comes from recently killed elephants
Posted by U. Washington on November 9th, 2016
More than 90 percent of ivory in large, seized shipments comes from elephants that died […]
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Posted by Layne Cameron-Michigan State on November 9th, 2016
Mobbing a group of hungry lions is a pretty risky move, but it can pay […]
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