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Dr. Mary Pearl

Dr. Mary Pearl appears in the following:

Underreported: Poultry Antibiotics May Not Be Effective

Thursday, October 11, 2007

An estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States are used on farms, mostly in animal feed. Health researchers have long worried that this heavy load of antibiotics is causing strains of bacteria to evolve that are impervious to the drugs. Plus, these resistant bacteria can pass ...

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Underreported: Conservation, Big and Small

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Which is more effective: large-scale conservation practices or smaller, more localized organizations? Large international NGOs like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund have contributed a lot to global conservation efforts. But some scientists and policymakers worry that conservation is being corporatized, at the expense of local programs and ...

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