The upside of fracking and water contamination
Region: New YorkIt’s become a cliché that water is the new oil. Experts predict that clean, fresh water will, by the end of the century, be as precious and hard to find as black go... more
Views: 2582Kids and nature deficit
Region: United States
Do you remember playing outdoors as a child? I remember climbing a five-trunked maple tree, playing house in the shady gaps of a honeysuckle thicket, tasting the nectar of columbine flowers, stripping the seeds fr... more
Views: 1936Whooping Cranes Still Migrating
Region: GeorgiaI am still fascinated by the whooping cranes and their slow migration behind the ultralight aircraft. They are flying today, leaving Decatur, Georgia. It’s been a rough migration, with a lot of down days due to bad w... more
Views: 1329Is biomass a renewable resource?
Region: WisconsinTechnically, yes, since it is composed of woody debris, algae, agricultural waste, fish guts, or other living or formerly living matter, which can be regrown and replenished. But renewability is also related to speed of c... more
Views: 2380Aldo Leopold: An early environmental activist
Region: United States
Aldo Leopold was a visionary ecologist of the first half of the twentieth century. I’m reading his classic A Sand County Almanac (Oxford University Press, 1949), a then-radical view of the imbalance between human act... more
Views: 1613They're Working on Climate Change
Region: WisconsinI avoid thinking about climate change. It’s overwhelming and scary, and I don’t know what to do about it besides stuff I’ve already been doing for years, like recycling, using cloth shopping bags, keeping... more
Views: 1277Watching Whooping Cranes
Region: Wisconsin
I’m getting addicted to the cranecam. Since visiting Necedah Wildlife Refuge in Wisconsin, I’m intrigued by the effort to teach young whooping cranes, an endangered species, to migrate by getting them to follow... more
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