This past summer I had a wonderful opportunity to visit Lake Shrine, the Aztec exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum and lunch at Gladstone’s with one of my mentors, Emeritus Prof.
On Tuesday, Nov. 2, the voters of California will not capitulate to big Texas oil interest, instead polls strongly suggest they will vote “no” on Proposition 23 and support Gov.
Will the opulent fountains in Las Vegas be a thing of the past? Every drop of water in Las Vegas is now precious as a relentless 11-year drought in the southwest begins to imperil the way 25 million people live.
This past weekend, people in 188 countries at 7,000 events united as one voice in the fight against oil, gas and coal, rising greenhouse gases and a warming world.
Rats are nature’s mobsters and serial killers with phenomenal disease-carrying pandemic abilities; they are feared and for good reasons. Rats, like people, have conquered all habitable continents.
The price of fossil fuels is soaring; burning them releases greenhouse gases, and a byproduct from coal energy is toxic mercury vapour, which has contaminated the Arctic and now melt-waters are circulating mercury in our oceans.
A total of seven western states and four Canadian provinces have joined forces in a plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions. An entire new source of long-term revenue is available to British Columbia’s government, which will enable protecting massive tracks of old growth forests and fresh water suppl
The Australian continent has experienced some extreme climates during the past 65 million years. Its fauna and flora are testament to those extremities.
My children often ask: Why is history so important? For which I regularly answer — because the past is rich with information and lessons. From about AD 800 to 1300 the Earth underwent a slight warming period dubbed “The Medieval Warm Period.
In 2006, I finished the book “Wild Weather: The Truth Behind Global Warming.” As a field biologist with a quarter century of experience I felt anxious about how nature and people would cope with the times ahead.
With a motto of slowly but surely, the desert tortoise is like a miniature four-wheel-drive vehicle clambering slowly along, negotiating steep rocky slopes by simply remaining in first gear.
The call of the loon symbolizes the wild kingdom. At least once a year I recommend visiting the water-rich north and experience its magnificent serenity.
