With all my traveling and move preparation, I hadn’t been keeping up with the latest on swine flu (aka the new H1N1 strain) — and truth be told, I figured the threat of a pandemic was water under the bridge. Not necessarily, as I learned by listening in to a press conference earlier today.
In fact, [...]
A friendly reminder: Earth Day is on Wednesday, so be the best steward you can be! I’m working on a post or two with Earth Day specifically in mind, but I won’t claim this is one of them. A lot of my posts have to do with a year-round fascination with Earth and the living [...]
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 [...]
I really had my eyes opened a couple of years ago, when I happened to be in Tuba City, Arizona on Columbus Day. Tuba City is a very small town on the western portion of the Navajo Nation, and close to the Hopi reservation too. The native kids presumably had the day off of school, [...]
