It’s December 2004, and I am back in Myitkyina, the capital of the Kachin State in Myanmar. As I drive through the gates onto the manicured grounds of the Town Hall, I am aware that the next few hours will help determine the success or failure of the tiger reserve that has been five […] Read More »
By Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger
October-December 2007 / Vol. 8 No. 4
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Discussion Questions
The authors describe the politics of global warming as “timid”. What do they mean with this choice of words? What is the nature of the authors’ objection to the approach taken by Blair in his 2005 […] Read More »
By Douglas Fox
October-December 2007 / Vol. 8 No. 4
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Discussion Questions
Why do we need wildlife contraception? What land use realities and human perceptions force this issue?
Understand the technical aspects of this article. Go through this article and identify all the terms you do not understand, and look them […] Read More »
By Jim Robbins
October-December 2007 / Vol. 8 No. 4
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Discussion Questions
With respect to the decline of polar bears and the proposal to list them as a threatened species, create a table that identifies all of the parties that are involved in the issue, their role in creating the problem, […] Read More »
By Nathanael Johnson
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
In a simpler world, all the “good” environmental processes would wear white cowboy hats while all the villains would be off causing cancer, clubbing baby seals, and making people fat. In the real world, the bad guys—in this case, erosion—sometimes muddy the waters by doing […] Read More »
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
Eat Anchovies?
When I saw the cover of the latest issue, “10 Solutions to Save the Oceans” (July-Sept 2007), I could not wait to see what ideas would be presented. I felt almost sick to my stomach after seeing the first suggestion: Eat More Anchovies. The history of […] Read More »
Books
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Book Reviews
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
REVIEWS
Life in […] Read More »
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By Eric Wagner
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
Kéfi, S. et al. 2007. Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems. Nature 449(7159):213-217.
Six thousand years ago, the Sahara was as green as any verdant field. Then the weather changed, so to speak, and it became nothing but sand. […] Read More »
©Viorika Prikhodko/istock.com
By Nick Atkinson
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
Holdsworth A.R., L.E. Frelich, and P.B. Reich. 2007. Effects of earthworm invasion on plant species richness in Northern hardwood forests. Conservation Biology 21(4):997-1008.
If plants are disappearing all around you, check underneath your boots. You might find invading earthworms. Andrew Holdsworth and University […] Read More »
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By Nick Atkinson
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
King L.E, I. Douglas-Hamilton, and F. Vollrath. 2007. African elephants run from the sound of disturbed bees. Current Biology 17(19):832-833.
A refreshingly low-tech solution to the problem of crop-raiding elephants (Loxodonta africana) has been found, scientists report in Current Biology. You and I […] Read More »
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By Nick Atkinson
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
Berger, J. 2007. Fear, human shields and the redistribution of prey and predators in protected areas. Biology Letters 3(6):620-623.
Humans, brown bears, and moose are engaged in a curious, triangular relationship at Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, according to the recently published findings […] Read More »
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By Eric Wagner
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
Alter S.E., E. Rynes, and S.R. Palumbi. 2007. DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts of gray whales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(38):15162-15167.
Populations of Pacific gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) may have been three to five times […] Read More »
Photo: Courtesy of DOE/NREL
By Nick Atkinson
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
Righelato R. and Spracklen D.V. 2007. Carbon mitigation by biofuels or by saving and restoring forests?
Science 317:902.
Biofuels, particularly ethanol and biodiesel, are a mere distraction in the fight to limit carbon emissions, warn the authors of a paper in […] Read More »
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By Nancy Bazilchuk
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
The Apennine mountains run for 1,000 kilometers along the length of Italy, their weathered peaks punching up like the gigantic vertebrae of some long-extinct dinosaur. Halfway down, east of Rome, the Abruzzo region contains the range’s most spectacular and extensive summits. In 1995, Italy […] Read More »
Photo © Vivek Menon / www.naturepl.com
By Shilpa Kannan
October-December 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 4)
The government of Jammu and Kashmir in India has started a new scheme that uses microchip tags for all registered Tibetan antelope products. They hope that this will check illegal trade in shahtoosh, the valuable wool from these creatures […] Read More »
