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 [...]
 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 [...]
Buying locally is romantic. It feels good to support local economies, and reducing the carbon footprint of our food shopping habits is a noble goal. But now, new research is adding a wrinkle. David Coley from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom is lead author on a new study showing that, on average, lower carbon [...]
Bats are in the news twice this week for two very different reasons: more has been revealed about their endearing social graces, and more is now understood about their unique vulnerability to windmills. University of Maryland researchers announce in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that big brown bats [...]