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Luckily, there's no secret to heading off a potential seafood apocalypse: Simply fish more sustainably, allowing fish stocks time to recover between harvests, just as a forest might be managed for logging. To that end, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1995 created the Code of...
That's the sort of attitude that needs to be brought to bear on global fishery management, lest wild fish disappear from our menu. The FAO code is valuable in principle, an excellent guide to a more sustainable fishing industry, but it's voluntary and lacks the teeth needed to...
Unlike audiobooks, novel podcasts are truncated into segments and may include ambient sounds, music as well a cast of voices playing different characters. While successful authors pitch their works on their own Web sites, many newer writers are posted on Podiobooks.com. Evo Terra, the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, says 45...
In January, the FAA agreed to make one of the changes, requiring helicopters to fly under the same weather rules whether or not a patient is on board. Other changes are being studied but will come slowly; the agency just released its first, voluntary guidelines regarding terrain awareness systems in...
Should such expensive fixes be required? The FAA thinks not. For years the agency has worked collaboratively with the helicopter EMS industry, looking for ways to improve safety by passing voluntary guidelines and only occasionally resorting to the slow process of imposing new regulations. "We will continue to pursue a...