Category:
Environment
Events:
Friday November 10 at 12p ET / 10a MT
Seminar: Leading Change in Ourselves for Our World
Free webinar presented by climate scientist, Heidi Steltzer.
Friday September 22 at 6p ET / 3p PT
Seminar: Regenerating Sonora
Free webinar presented by Christopher Casillas.
Articles:
Jul 12, 2012
Down on the Cacao Farm: Sloths Thrive at Chocolate Source
Once a tract of tropical forest has been cleared, sloths have relatively little capacity to seek out new habitats.
Jul 12, 2012
It’s Rats vs. Penguins on Contested Chilean Island
"The cause of the decline in the penguin population is man," said bird veterinarian Paula Arce. "And of its eggs ... That could be the rats."
Jul 10, 2012
BioWatch, False Alarms, and Adaptable Alarms
Some of the best solutions for human problems can be found in nature.This article from the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-biowatch-20120708,0,3444893,print.story">July 7, 2012 Los Angeles Times</a> documents some of the vexing false alarms that have plagued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s multi-billion dollar BioWatch system.
Jun 22, 2012
Dirtying Up Our Diets
Reintroducing coevolutionary diets to improve health outcomes.
Apr 4, 2012
How Plants and Animals Can Prepare Us for the Next Big Disaster
We ought to look to nature—and its 3.5 billion years of adaptations for survival—for how to better protect ourselves from terrorist attacks, natural disasters and infectious disease.