War in Ukraine: Chernobyl Update
March 12 2022 UPDATE Thirty-five years ago the world’s worst nuclear crisis occurred at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear facility. Today Chernobyl is back in Russian hands ! Russia’s incursion into the […]
Category Archives: Birds
Upcoming Books: The Comfort of Food
Food does more than feed us – it is essential to human development, brain health, social interactions, and the joy of being alive. We’re assembling a compendium of the best […]
Summer Books: While You’re Waiting
Our Summer 2017 books lineup has grown into three stories that we will unwrap over the next few weeks. While you wait, we are sharing a fabulous array of Summer […]
Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!
A gratifying moment came last week for the rusty patched bumblebee – a highly threatened species of native bee in the U.S. that is an essential pollinator in such crops […]
Birds Rock! The 2017 Bird Count
The 2017 Great Backyard Bird Count in February just set new records: it’s the best count ever conducted since the GBBC began in 1998. Here are the stats—as of March […]
Great Backyard Bird Count Feb 17-20
Do you love birds? Love watching them? The Great Backyard Bird Count – now nearly 20 years old– is your chance, February 17-20, to help create the 2017 annual snapshot […]
Books Summer ’16: Ten More You’ll Like
Award-winning journalists and experts – Sebastian Junger, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jennifer Ackerman– are among the authors we’ve selected for Ten More Books you’ll like this summer. This selection of 10 looks […]
Friday Roundup Apr 29: Ches Bay, Space Colony, Hummingbirds, Feeding Africa
Our stories this week: Chesapeake Bay’s good news, Kaplana –a NASA space colony, Howard Buffett’s “brown revolution” to feed Africa, bison wins new status Chesapeake Bay’s Good News The Chesapeake […]
Chernobyl at 30
Today is Chernobyl ‘s 30th anniversary– and the impacts of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster (yes, they say, worse than Fukushima in 2011) are still being felt in […]
Friday Roundup Apr 1: No foolin’!
Friday Roundup April 1: Our stories — how cities and islands may disappear by the end of the century, making water from fog, a 65-year-old “mother” osprey, salmon spawn for […]
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