The outcome of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission this week is too weak to stop overfishing of Pacific bigeye and yellowfin tuna. Pacific islanders are still at great risk from the collapse of this fishery. But the decision to close two of the high seas pockets, between Pacific Island countries, to purse seine […]

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High-tech smuggling operations may not be what you’d normally associate with the ongoing clearance of the Amazon rainforest, but logging companies intent on plundering it for timber have been using hackers to break into the Brazilian government’s sophisticated tracking system and fiddle the records.     Full Story…

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There are 11 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks […]

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OK, so I guess I’m not busy enough, cuz I’m experimenting with podcasting. I have a voice best left to typing, but I want to try a new medium.
The first episode is on arrogance in medicine, and the rss feed looks funky cuz i’m still learning, but let me know how it goes. This discussion […]

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