According to a study led by two Stanford University scientists and published earlier this year, advances in high-yield agriculture during the past half-century have prevented massive amounts of greenhouse gases--the equivalent of 590 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide--from entering the atmosphere.

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Mike was a pioneer in the study of groundwater as an archive of past climate change and his research provided seminal scientific advances on controls on water quality in regional aquifers, recharge over time and space.

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David Altshuler, co-chair of the steering committee for the 1000 Genomes Project, said the people who enrolled in the study were told that all steps would be taken to keep them anonymous, but that technological advances one day might make it possible to identify them.

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