A couple of weeks ago I began preparing for my spring classes. At roughly the same time several students approached me and wanted to know more about our incredible honeybees.
Recently one of my colleagues sent me a story that sums up the media’s apathetic appetite for covering the environment. It is perplexing and disturbing.
In a warming world the most important natural resource is fresh water. Yet, as the price of crude oil soars above $100 a barrel our insatiable addiction runs the risk of polluting 4.
Last week I received yet another vitriolic e-mail chiding me for speaking and writing about global warming when the northeastern United States was under feet of snow in addition to unseasonably cold temperatures.
Make one of your New Year’s resolutions to visit at least one national monument outside of California in 2011. I suggest you consider visiting the artifacts of the Ancestral Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, or the intriguing petroglyphs of West Mesa, or the great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand — all
In California we are so blessed to have such a diverse array of nature’s jewels. This holiday season consider taking a road trip and exploring the Joshua trees; I guarantee you will never forget it.
Last week a number of readers e-mailed asking what each of them can do to help combat global warming. Since 193 countries meeting at the U.N. climate conference in Cancun were unable to reach any consensus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it’s up to each of us to lend a helping hand because glo
Last week the Republicans in the House of Representatives decided to eliminate a global warming committee created by Democrats. Apparently some politicians continue to deny that human beings are leaving an indelible footprint around the globe.
Last year Iceland and Norway killed 688 whales while Japan, under the guise of “scientific research,” slaughtered 1,000 whales. In the 20th century humans decimated whale populations around the globe by 1.
In my opinion Thanksgiving is the best holiday of the year for a number of important reasons. Irrespective of your faith or political beliefs, or lack thereof, our nation takes a day to breathe, reflect upon the year and give thanks to our loved ones and the Earth’s bounty.
Recent research from the University of London shows that a bumblebee’s tiny brain is able to solve complex mathematical problems giving further credence to why Mayan shamans revered bees and their intelligence.
A plague of locusts of biblical proportions has hatched and is growing as Australia, the fourth largest grain exporter, has gone from 13 years of bone-dry drought to the wettest September since the inception of continuous record keeping in 1860.
