Tag: University of California

  • Women Still a Minority on Corporate Boards

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    According to Bill Roth at the TriplePundit site, “While women account for over 50 percent of college graduates and they dominate economic power in our economy with $8 trillion of annual buying power, they still account for less than 15 percent of S&P 500 boards of directors. Three percent of Fortune 1000 companies have no women…

  • Groundwater Depletion Worsening All Over the World

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    A pioneering new study by University of California scientists says the arid Middle East is rapidly getting drier. They say groundwater depletion in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region is happening much faster than people expected. Depletion is quickened by farmers who pump water from limited underground aquifers to feed crops. These aquifers will not be replenished,…

  • GMO Foods Cont’d

    —

    by

    Daniela
    in

    Keith Kloor argues in Discover magazine that “the worst misinformation and myths about genetically modified foods has spread from the anti-GMO fringes to the mainstream.”  He feels that the anti-GMO movement is based on fear and not science.  To back up his view he quotes an article published in Scientific American by Pam Ronald, a University of…