I couldn’t have known how weird it would be to return to the classroom. It’s only been about nine years, after all, since I left it. It hit me when I was standing in the school supplies aisle at the supermarket yesterday, because I realized I should have a notebook, one with multiple sections for [...]
I met with Joanna Kakissis this morning, a former Ted Scripps environmental journalism fellow who has been generous with her friendship and with insight about the program. As part of my ongoing orientation to Boulder, she suggested I should check out the farmer’s market as soon as possible. What a tasty idea!
Three blocks of streets [...]
A new study is sounding the loudest alarm yet about lead poisoning from venison.
The study, issued this week in the journal PLoS ONE, analyzed 30 white-tailed deer carcasses hunted under normal conditions and found that all of them contained lead fragments, as did a variety of butchered products. And the tainted products raised lead blood [...]
When I think of Afghanistan, I think of war, tribal strife and Bin Ladin. Not once, until I saw this announcement come through last week, have I thought of beauty, biodiversity or environmental stewardship. And yet, there it is.
Afghanistan even has a National Environment Protection Agency, and this week it announced the establishment of the country’s [...]
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, [...]
