A Flagstaff, Arizona journalist and author is proposing the unthinkable: live within our environmental means in the American West.
Sure, sure; it sounds radical. But here’s something even more so: flooding one of the West’s signature canyons — Glen Canyon — to secure a water future for millions of city residents who couldn’t live there without [...]
The news was mixed for birds this week, with the appearance of the 2009 “State of the Birds” report — a collaborative effort of the Audubon Society, U.S. Geological Survey, The Nature Conservancy and a host of other groups. They’ve found that habitat destruction and loss are still wreaking havoc on birds that live in [...]
After a winter that’s seemed long and harsh in much of the country, there’s good reason to be excited about the earliest signs of spring.
Here’s one more: It can help scientists track climate change.
The popular National Public Radio program “Science Friday” apparently crashed the server at the National Phenology Network’s website this afternoon, by airing a [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about my disenchantment with the plummeted quality of the global warming debate, because it distracts well-meaning people from action that could address the problem. And I promised I’d dedicate some of the posts on this blog to solutions.
Here’s one I’ve recommitted to in my own life, thanks to a solution-oriented blog I’ve really [...]
Once invasive plants enter the picture, they tend to make even quicker work of spreading than we thought.
Curtis Daehler, a botanist at the University of Hawai’i in Honolulu, has reported in the open access journal PLoS ONE this week that plants that aggressively took up residence in Hawaii did so on the order of five to 14 [...]
