When I moved to Alberta in 1976 to become the curator of paleontology at the Provincial Museum of Alberta (now the Royal Alberta Museum), I was hamstrung by a lack of funding and an attitude that suggested there was no point in putting money into collecting dinosaurs because there were none left.
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Back Scientists Pioneer New Way of Finding Cancer-Causing Germs
Scientists at the University of East Anglia are pioneering a new way of finding the bacteria and viruses associated with cancer.
‘Artificial Leaf’ Successfully Produces Clean Gas
A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an ‘artificial leaf’ that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to petrol.
California’s Crashing Kelp Forest
First the sea stars wasted to nothing.
Large-Scale Forestation of African Savannas Will Destroy Valuable Ecosystems and Ecotourism Sites
The suggested afforestation of large areas of Africa to mitigate climate change will destroy valuable ecological, agricultural, and tourist areas, while doing little to reduce global CO2 levels.
Forests on the Radar
With freely available radar data from satellites, biodiversity in forests can be analysed very well.