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One of history's biggest biological rescue efforts to save 100,000 crop varieties from extinction

Only two years after launching an ambitious effort to save endangered crop species, the Global Crop Diversity Trust announced today it is on track to save from extinction 100,000 different varieties of food crops from 46 countries.

Algae, Coal, and Jatropha: the Future of Aviation Fuels?

February 2, 2009 by BioGeek

Large waterfowl are not a good recipe for jet aircraft engines in flight. That much was made vividly clear by the recent “Miracle on the Hudson” in which all 155 people aboard a US Airways flight survived when the pilot made a perfect water landing after geese “fowled” both engines following a takeoff from LaGuardia.



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