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 […]
Category Archives: Biodiversity
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 […]
