Jennifer Marohasy

Dynamism is a new label for a new political philosophy, a philosophy that Virginia Postrel explains in her 1998 book, ‘The Future and Its Enemies – The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress’, has given us greater wealth, opportunity and choice than at any time in history.
According to Postrel many conservatives and social liberals [...]

A new study suggests that some coral reefs could be protected from bleaching by a natural ‘ocean thermostat’ that regulates sea surface temperatures in the western pacific warm pool.
The paper was published in GRL on 9th February:
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 35, L03613, doi:10.1029/2007GL032257, 2008
Potential role of the ocean thermostat in determining regional differences in coral [...]

About 250 million year ago, during the late Permian the world’s oceans stagnated causing a huge and lethal build up of hydrogen sulphide produced by anaerobic bacteria. Up to 95 percent of marine species and 85 percent of those on the land went extinct.
At least that is the view of Peter Ward writing [...]

Mainstream media , Reuters and Norwegian paper Aftenposten, have reported the Norwegian whaling quota this season will be the same as for the previous 3 years, 1052 minke whales.
“ We set quotas not according to what is likely to be caught , but what is sustainable” , director at Norway’s Fisheries and Coastal Affair [...]