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May 18, 2010

Bill for Afghan War Could Run Into the Trillions

The U.S. Senate is moving forward with a 59-billion-dollar spending bill, of which 33.5 billion dollars would be allocated for the war in Afghanistan. However, some experts here in Washington are raising concerns that the war may be unwinnable and that the money being spent on military operations in Afghanistan could be better spent.

The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity

In a recent paper titled “The New World of the Anthropocene [1],” which appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, a group of geologists listed more than a half dozen human-driven processes that are likely to leave a lasting mark on the planet – lasting here understood to mean likely to leave traces that will last tens of millions of years.

The Anthropocene Debate: Marking Humanity

In a recent paper titled “The New World of the Anthropocene [1],” which appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, a group of geologists listed more than a half dozen human-driven processes that are likely to leave a lasting mark on the planet – lasting here understood to mean likely to leave traces that will last tens of millions of years.

Supremely Important: Genetically Engineered Crops

Fifteen years after farmers and agribusinesses began planting genetically engineered crops in our nation’s fields, we still know very little about their long-term environmental, economic, and social consequences.