Life in the Wake of Nuclear Disaster
By Emily Monosson / On July 21st, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Bee My Pollinator Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On June 27th, 2014
Thoughts on Threatened Species
By Biohabitats / On June 12th, 2014
Post by Amy Nelson of Biohabitats, cross-posted from Rhizome with permission. It is true that in nature, species come and species go. On rare occasions they even return. Just this spring, a globally rare plant, Lobelia boykinii (Boykin’s lobelia), resurfaced in Delaware, a place in which it hadn’t been seen for over a century.
Journey: Lessons from a Peripatetic Wolf
By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 28th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Red Pill/Blue Pill Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On May 9th, 2014
If you've flipped through the latest issue of the New Yorker, you may have spotted "Green is Good" (subscription required), which profiles The Nature Conservancy's president and CEO, Mark Tercek, and a few of the projects they've worked on since he joined the organization. The article mentions Keeping the Wild, a compilation of essays confronting the principles of the "new conservation" that Tercek supports, in
Wood Ducks on a Wild River
By Eric Dinerstein / On April 30th, 2014
Originally published by Village News, a publication of the community of Cabin John, MD.
Wild, undammed rivers make dangerous neighbors. A signboard near the riverbank at one of the National Park entrances offers direct evidence of the Potomac's perils—57 drownings in ten years between Great Falls and Little Falls—about an 11-mile stretch.
#ForewordFriday: Rhino Latrine Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 18th, 2014
Some people collect coins, some people collect books; people like Eric Dinerstein collect sightings of rare species. In The Kingdom of Rarities, newly released in paperback, Dinerstein shares stories from his career spent traveling the world in search of Andean cocks-of-the-rock, armadillos, and saolas. As he travels, he shares stories of how these species affect the ecosystems they live in and how scientists are working to learn more about them and how they can be protected.
#ForewordFriday: Wolves Edition
By Jason Leppig / On March 14th, 2014
This past weekend, there was an op-ed in the NY Times that questioned the oft-lauded impacts of wolves re-introduced to Yellowstone. In The