Christmas Bird Count: Free Event
Christmas Bird Count 2012: Form a counting circle or be part of one this holiday season. The 113th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count takes place Dec 14, 2012 to Jan […]
Category Archives: Biodiversity
Monarchs on the Move
It’s that season. Monarch butterflies are leaving the upper reaches of their range in North America and heading south for over-wintering in high-altitude sanctuaries in Mexico’s Michoacan Mountains. Depending upon […]
Elephants: The Slaughter is On
With a worldwide ban in place since 1989 on trade in ivory, why is it possible throughout Southeast Asia to buy religious icons, amulets and trinkets carved from contemporary African […]
Frogs: Endangered Worldwide
Frogs have been around for 250 million years, and despite what we might call their tenacity to thrive from an evolutionary standpoint, they are highly endangered from loss of habitat, pollution and […]
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: 50th Anniversary
Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring marks its 50th anniversary this year with the new biography On a Farther Shore : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder, (Crown, 512 […]
Cuba-U.S. Collaborate on Enviro Problems
Nature does not respect political boundaries or, for that matter, tropical storms, hurricanes, oil spills and toxic releases. Too little has been written about the state of biodiversity in Cuba, the risks […]
Spiders Galore
The island of Guam is experiencing 40 times the number of spiders in years past. The reason is linked to a catastrophic loss of birds to brown snakes, an introduced species that […]
