Using an organic farm system, 68-year-old Morton developed entirely novel lettuce varieties and eventually started the Philomath, Oregon-based Wild Garden Seed company with his wife, Karen.
The customer planned to include “Funny Cut Mix” in their lettuce trials, which plant breeders use to evaluate how well a variety will perform in a specific environment.
A few months later, the customer informed Morton that his “Funny Cut Mix” would be excluded from further trials because it looked like a patented lettuce type called Salanova, owned by the Dutch company Rijk Zwaan.
The system rewards powerful firms with the resources to develop and enforce patents, explained Phil Howard, a professor in the department of community sustainability at Michigan State University.
The company acts as a marketing hub where small-scale farmers can sell packs of seed and receive the majority of the packet sale money in return, minus the cost of production.
Unfortunately, today farmers don’t always have robust choices – a challenge that was recognized in the Biden-Harris executive order on competition,” Jenny L Moffitt, under secretary for marketing and regulatory programs, said in an email statement.
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The study used social media and photo-sharing websites
I am curious what kind of pictures they used; I could imagine that if you see a hermit crab with plastic you would take a picture of it, which could lead to misleading results. On the other hand, if the crabs were just in the background, this would not be the case.
Just government drones. It works on paper since it's from renewable sources.... And if you squint real hard and don't look at the big picture of how it's actually working out (like this article).
TL;DR: A highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) strain, H5N1, is causing significant mortality among elephant seal pups in Patagonia, Argentina, with an estimated 17,000 deaths in 2023. This event is notable for its scale and suggests mammal-to-mammal transmission, raising concerns about the virus's potential to spread among other mammals, including humans.
Massive Elephant Seal Mortality: Nearly 96% of elephant seal pups at three breeding sites in Patagonia died due to H5N1, contrasting sharply with the previous year's successful weaning of 18,000 pups.
Mammal-to-Mammal Transmission: The seals likely had little interaction with infected birds, indicating a possible mammal-to-mammal transmission route.
Global Impact of H5N1: The virus has affected over 150 bird species worldwide, causing significant deaths in bird populations in South America, Greece, and the Netherlands.
Spread Among Mammals: H5N1 has been detected in various mammals, including pumas, foxes, skunks, brown bears, and endangered Caspian seals, with a polar bear death reported in Alaska.
Human Health Concerns: The World Health Organization urges preparedness for potential human spillover. Human infections are rare but could become more common if the virus evolves to transmit more easily between mammals.
Call for Collaborative Approach: There's a need for a global, collaborative effort to monitor bird flu strains and develop vaccines to prevent another pandemic.
Probably just general entropy. Life is energy organized and put to purpose which is basically the opposite of entropy. So if, entropy is the antithesis to life, wouldn't all life's ultimate goal be to overcome entropy?
Thanks, you often hear claims that young forests are more efficient at storing carbon (which is convenient for the logging industry ) the paper linked at the bottom of this article tries to debunk that https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00027
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