On the surface, obesity looks to be a self-inflicted wound. Too much food and not enough exercise, right?
Not so simple.
A new study in PLoS ONE adds heft to a link between pesticides and obesity that’s been emerging for the past several years. Soo Lim, of the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University College in Korea, [...]
I admire Paul Ehrlich for his sustained warnings about human overpopulation and the environmental degradation we cause.
But sometimes, I wish he’d lighten up.
For example. Five days after I published this blog post in early February, about the discovery of a dozen new species in Columbia, Eurekalert came out with a press release that read like [...]
The Grand Canyon has been on my mind lately, possibly because it’s the perfect time of year for backpacking down there. There are many things to love about the place. For me, one of them is the Big Dipper. I love sleeping under the stars, and opening my eyes in the still-dark morning to see [...]
Maybe because I’ve never actually been stung by a scorpion, I think they’re pretty neat beasts. I like their curly, secret-weapon tails and their segmented bodies, and I like my memories of spotting them in my headlamp on a nighttime hike through the Grand Canyon.
And so, naturally, I was intrigued by a study in which [...]
Thousands of years ago, the Earth went through a warming phase that rivaled the drama of modern climate change predictions. And at least one species adapted its diet to survive.
Between 18,000 and 10,000 years ago, an ice age was ending. Juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, in the southern reaches of [...]
