Interesting articles

[eyja]

There have been several interesting articles that grabbed my attention and I thought I'd share.

Platypus Genome -- as weird as you think
How cleaning up America dried up the Amazon
The Power that William Connelly of Wikipedia has

Feel free to comment.

Comments

[lessingejumeau]

So if I'm reading this middle article correct we need to burn more coal or else the rain forests will die out. Now there's a bumper sticker I'd wanna see - "Burn coal, create pollution, save the Rain Forrest!" That's just quality entertainment.

[eyja]

Cox, the scientist, is quoted as saying, "As we clean up air quality, as we have to do, it is even more urgent to reduce CO2 emissions." So the article is not claiming that we need to pollute, but that the introduction and then absence of sulphates has affected the environment.

I think the article also shows that "just stopping" can have impacts that many people don't realize and that the models have been missing some vital data. I'm curious to see what the addition of the sulfate factor does to change the predictions of other models.

[lessingejumeau]

sulfate...the Rain Forest's crack addiction!

The coal burning/energy industry has just been labeled as a Pusher-Man.
:-)

[eyja]

*laughs*

[foundunicorn]

You find the coolist stuff.

[lil_poet_girl]

I just got my weekly Honors e-mail and one of the "Lively Links" in it was the Platypus story. So I guess that means you're on the cutting edge of cool news stories.