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...similar report in 2002 estimated that only 10% of the gorillas' habitat would remain by 2032. But the authors say even that dire prediction was optimistic. At the time, researchers did not predict the rise in Chinese demand for timber or the extent of mining in Congo. "Ten years ago, when we did the other report, China and the rest of Asia were not major players in Africa, and now China has up to 40% of the wood-and-mineral trade," Christian Nellemann, a U.N. Environment Program official and the report's lead author, tells TIME. "We have new satellite...
...study found that cyanobacteria produce carboxysomes—organelles instrumental in the process of carbon fixation—in quantities proportional to the length of their longest axis and subsequently align these organelles uniformly along the axis, according to David F. Savage, HMS research fellow and co-lead author of the study...
...bigger vision is one of sustainability,” said Pamela A. Silver, co-author of the study and professor of systems biology at HMS. “Ideally you could have an organism that you could program to make anything you wanted using only sunlight—you could use it, for example, to provide energy for the third world...
Oney is the author of And the Dead Shall Rise...
...humanity and boast economies that are expected to loom large over the 21st century. They also represent two of the world's fastest-growing militaries, armed with nuclear weapons, and are expanding their spheres of influence across oceans. Jonathan Holslag, a Brussels-based scholar of Chinese foreign policy and author of the recent book China and India: Prospects for Peace, is among a growing number of observers who have dismissed the idea of "Chindia" - a term once often invoked, expressing optimism over the joint geopolitical rise of the two Asian giants. He spoke to TIME about the fault lines between...