REMOVING DAMS
Removing dams. I have written several blogs about the plague of dam-building throughout the world over many years, the inefficiency of their long-term contribution to …
CHOCOLATE
Kim Mishra and Anian Schreiber cooperated on a new chocolate making process. Imagine picking up a nice juicy apple, but instead of biting into …
REAL-LIFE PADDINGTON BEAR
Drought and conflict with farmers are threatening Bolivia’s Andean bear – the real-life Paddington Bear. Now a beekeeping project is helping protect this endangered species. …
KENYAN COAST LINE
Kenyan coast line. Authorities worldwide talk about climate change, but seem to be doing little about it in any concrete way – lobbying groups seem …
EVERGLADES
Florida is embarking on an ambitious ecological restoration project in the Everglades: building a reservoir large enough to secure the state’s water supply. In February …
ROAD TRIP
Last week I took a road trip from Colorado to Wisconsin and back to see the Oshkosh Air Show, which I have wanted to visit …
SPERM WHALES
Researchers studying communication in sperm whales say they’ve uncovered sophisticated audio structures similar to those found in human language. It raises the tantalizing possibility that, …
GREAT GREEN WALL
The Great Green Wall is a project of eleven countries in the Sahel-Sahara region: Thye are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, …
LEGACY OF WORLD WAR II
We don’t normally think about the legacy of World War II in terms of the ordinance that it left behind, that still exists. For example, …
APPLES
The U.K. is home to many varieties of apples. But there is an ancestor of modern apples that has been lost – at least until …