Pea-shooting at Biotech The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) report that biotech crop acres expanded 8 percent in 2011 prompted the technologies' opponents to launch attacks ranging from the charge of double counting to a repetition of the usual blather. Greenpeace said only a small amount of Europe's land is planted to GM and that "only Spain marginally [emphasis added] increased its acreage grown [to GM] in 2011." ISAAA reports that the planting of MON810 maize in Europe rose by over 25 percent last year.The last time we heard from Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Union of Concerned Scientists he was issuing the earth-shattering complaint that drought-resistant corn would only be helpful when a...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
The Olympic marmot (Marmota olympus) is a rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It occurs only in the U.S. state of Washington, at the middle elevations of the Olympic Peninsula. The closest relatives of this species are the hoary marmot and the Vancouver Island marmot. In 2009, it was decl...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.