Environment:
Why do we help out our relatives when one of them needs a buck or a meal, and who gains the most from such acts of generosity? It's a tough question to answer in human populations, where self-awareness and cultural...
Posted on August 17, 2007 11:39 AM • 0 Comments •
The 11th Hour, is essential viewing. It may not change your life, but it may inspire you to recycle that old slogan-button your folks pinned on their dashikis back in the day: If you're not part of the solution, you're...
Posted on August 17, 2007 11:18 AM • 0 Comments •
Odorless, colorless methane - the primary of natural gas - is a powerful greenhouse agent. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, pound for pound methane is about 21 times more effective at warming Earth's atmosphere than carbon dioxide is....
Posted on August 16, 2007 01:25 PM • 3 Comments •
A closer look at carbon offsets reveals an unregulated market in which some improvements bought by customers are only estimated, extrapolated, hoped-for or nil. Some offsets support projects that would have gone forward anyway. Others deliver results difficult to measure....
Posted on August 16, 2007 01:15 PM • 0 Comments •
When it comes to looking like the biggest, meanest squirrel mom around, California ground squirrels have a special weapon in their arsenal: hot tails. Squirrels heat their tails an extra 3 degrees when trying to chase off rattlesnakes, which perceive...
Posted on August 15, 2007 11:58 AM • 1 Comments •
The "organic" trend began in the produce aisle, then trickled into cosmetics, clothing and pet supplies. Now, dry cleaning is on the laundry list of goods and services being marketed as organic to an eco-conscious public hungry for all things...
Posted on August 14, 2007 11:38 AM • 0 Comments •
Jose Fernandez slips into the primeval muck of the Florida Everglades to pursue his passion for wildlife photogaphy, most notably alligators. He has joined a very small, very savvy, very crazy band of swamp divers -- people who purposefully jump...
Posted on August 14, 2007 10:58 AM • 0 Comments •
Two "superhero" rodents, the kangaroo rat and the prairie dog, thrive amid the heat and dry sand of the desert Southwest. Each creature influences its environment to an extent that far outweighs its size - a real-life version of Mighty...
Posted on August 13, 2007 11:53 AM • 1 Comments •
As people depart nature returns, restoring balance to the prairie.The Great Plains, which makes up more than 15% of the USA's land area through 10 states but holds barely 3% of the nation's population, is going through another transformation. The...
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Posted on August 13, 2007 11:27 AM • 0 Comments •
Charter boat captain Frank Mundus, who was mytholgized in Jaws, officially retired more than a decade ago from shark killing, still has a taste for shark blood, and has not lost the knack for hooking what he calls monsters of...
Posted on August 10, 2007 11:49 AM • 0 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
