World / Development
A Natural Obsession
Comment / by / October 26, 2009
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.
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A Not-So-Silent Spring
The evidence is growing of long-term health problems related to spraying DDT in homes in the developing world.
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Case Study: Troubles in Kenya
On the eastern coast of Kenya, controversy erupts over plans to turn a biodiversity hotspot into farmland for Qatar.
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Hungry for Land
Growing food in foreign lands has a long history. But the 21st century version of outsourced agriculture presages something fundamentally new.
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Why Environmentalism Needs High Finance
Conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align.
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Banking the Monsoon
In a small village in the center of Gujarat, India, a society grows from clean water and satellite maps.
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Found in Translation
The process of creating a nuclear-security glossary matters as much as the finished product.
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Nepal: Wireless in the Mountains
A home WiFi kit and a solar-powered relay station transform healthcare and education for a remote village in western Nepal.
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Breaking the Legacy
New partnerships could represent a tipping point in developing African science.
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Science Diplomacy for the 21st Century
On being a citizen of a world without borders or boundaries.
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Poor Decision Making
How behavioral economics can help change the fight against poverty.
Comment
Lessons for Science Envoys
Sheila Jasanoff examines President Obama’s Middle East science envoy program and offers five crucial tips on what scientists should avoid overseas.
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Nick Anthis
A Universal Truth
The universality of basic science may be the deepest link between the US and the Muslim world.
Comment
Sowing Africa’s Green Revolution
Small-scale farmers are Africa’s greatest asset—
a fact now being recognized on a global scale as President Obama and other G8 leaders call for major new investments in African agriculture.
Health Memes
Malaria: Five New Weapons
Profiles of the most promising and innovative approaches to fighting malaria, from a living drug pump to strategic computer models.
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
