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Oct 21, 2024 |
smithsonianmag.com | Mark Schapiro
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis
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Jul 10, 2024 |
civileats.bluelena.io | Lisa Elaine Held |Mark Schapiro
A pending proposal from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could “worsen the catastrophic impacts of antimicrobial resistance” if finalized, according to Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey). On Tuesday, Booker sent a letter to commissioner Robert Califf expressing concerns about changes to “duration limits” in the FDA’s revised guidance on antibiotic use in animal agriculture. Continuously using drugs for long stretches is known to lead to antibiotic resistance.
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Jul 8, 2024 |
civileats.com | Mark Schapiro
This is the second of two articles about plant biodiversity and genetic resources. Read the first story here. In the center of Rio de Janeiro sprawls a lush enclave of tropical flowers, vines, and palm trees, with howler monkeys screeching from the leafy canopies. Just blocks from the traffic-clogged bustle of Rio’s boulevards, the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro is a remaining 130-acre patch of the rainforest from which the city was carved three centuries ago.
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May 20, 2024 |
wetheitalians.com | Mark Schapiro
When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit. On a spring day earlier this year, I stride with Dalla Ragione into the National Gallery of Umbria, in a 14th-century stone castle built atop the hillside city of Perugia.
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Dec 10, 2023 |
capitalandmain.com | Mark Schapiro
There’s always a lag between a rupture of the status quo and settling on a word for it. The planet is heating at a life-threatening pace. And yet the two words we use to describe this rupture — “climate” and “change” — are beginning to seem too stiff and one-dimensional for conveying the violence to life-sustaining ecosystems that threaten the world as we have known it.
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Almost everything emanates from a plant. But where does knowledge about them come from? Brazil tries answering with the world's first law in a mega-biodiverse country that requires paying for traditional knowledge. My latest story, in @civileats: https://t.co/7YB4BpSwIN
Revelation: Almost everything emanates from a plant. But where does knowledge about plants come from? Brazil tries answering with the world's first law in a mega-biodiverse country to require paying for traditional knowledge...My latest story: https://t.co/7YB4BpRYTf
Time to hold up climate responses to real scrutiny. My latest in Capital and Main: 'Time to Kill 'Net Zero' https://t.co/6f166euJrS
