and human behavior is theroot cause. These problems are thus not environmental, but rather related to how humans meet their needs and wants in ecologically disruptive ways. Manipulating, exploiting, and destroying nonhuman nature are not new activities for our species, but today these occur at an...
In August 2017, the Gulf of Mexico’s hypoxic zone was declared to be the largest ever measured. It has been estimated that a 60% decrease in watershed nitrogen (N) loading may be necessary to adequately reduce eutrophication in the Gulf. However, to date there has been no rigorous assessm...
PhilippinesThis study used a modified version of the Perception of Science Classes Survey (Kardash & Wallace, 2001) to survey 7,885 grade school and high school students in different provinces in the Philippines regarding their perceptions of their science classes. Factor analysis revealed five ...
The find was one of many interesting discoveries related to ancient migrations and the Americas this year. In July, a study published inProceedings of the Royal Society Bdescribedthree pendants in Brazil made from sloth bonesthat date to between 25,000 and 27,000 years before present. That ...
Likewise, I had the opportunity to visit the Philippines last year, which had an average annual growth rate of 1.78% from 2013-2022 (worlddata.info) and now has a population density of nearly 400 people per square kilometer (>1000 per square mile; indexmundi.com). That’s an order of ...
Critics cite numerous problems with Ray’s approach: These tests are optional in the vast majority of the country, and many home-schooled students don’t take them. The ones who don’t might have scored far worse if they had been required to sit for exams, as public school students are....
“The one person who died from 2019-nCoV in the Philippines also had influenza B,” said del Rio. “You don’t want to have two upper respiratory tract infections. I don’t think the risk is so much for people with compromised immune systems, but for people with compromised lung systems...
Despite unprecedented scientific productivity, Earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction. The disconnect between scientific output and species conservation may be related to scientists studying the wrong species. Given fishes have a high extinction rat
We show how the implementation of successive sets of policies has been hindered by three broadly inter-related features of the local social landscape: the capacity of government institutions and legal frameworks to implement regulations, the distinctive culture of fisheries governance in the Philippines,...
Neglect for the population factor The 1990s and 2000s saw a desertion of concerns about population in scientific, policy, and public arenas (11–13). A number of factors converged to downplay ecological and socioeconomic issues related to population growth. A globally declining fertility rate prom...