Critterthink, the blog of the Center for Native Ecosystems in Denver, CO has posted a guide to the 2008 Farm Bill from a conservation perspective, highlighting what they call the good, the bad and the ugly. If you haven't had...
Posted on June 9, 2008 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Ed has a great review of a recent paper in Nature presenting new research that describes just how extensive the damage done by the mountain pine beetle in British Columbia. The culprit of the outbreak is most likely climate change...
Posted on April 24, 2008 11:15 AM • 1 Comments •
So Saturday was Earth Hour, and as if anyone reading this blog didn't know, lights were supposed to be cut off from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. to send a message to mysterious world power that the world was ready...
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Posted on March 31, 2008 1:56 PM • 10 Comments •
A recent move to pay Guyana for not cutting down their rainforest.
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Posted on March 27, 2008 10:57 AM • 1 Comments •
This is the kind of crap I get in my email: I blog about ecology therefore I'm one of the morons that watches this sensationalized garbage and considers it a "teaching tool"....
Posted on January 15, 2008 1:15 PM • 6 Comments •
An interesting study that improves on geographically-driven predictions of adaptations to climate change.
Posted on January 9, 2008 9:35 AM • 3 Comments •
About a century and a half too late for John Franklin, I'm afraid. The fact that the sea ice is melting in and around the NW Passage is not news; scientists have been following that progression for many years now,...
Posted on September 18, 2007 5:42 AM • 2 Comments •
Damn Decepticons and their emissions.
Posted on August 29, 2007 10:40 AM • 1 Comments •
One of our geography profs, who is teaching a storm chasing class over the summer, was featured on Good Morning America this past Sunday: "I think it's important the general public begins to understand the concept of inquiry-based science education,...
Posted on August 21, 2007 7:58 AM • 0 Comments •
Art for art's sake? Hardly.
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Posted on July 13, 2007 10:05 AM • 1 Comments •