The Future of Conservation Is Basically Shazam for WildlifeThe eastern black rail, a subspecies of bird that’s scattered in clusters along America’s eastern coastlines, is one of the most elusive creatures a wildlife biologist can choose to study. Adults are the size of a human hand, and are dark and shy,… Mar 04 23March 04, 2023Article at The Atlantic
Climate Change Enters Its Blood-Sucking PhaseAs winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move. We found the moose calf half an hour in. He lay atop thin snow on a gentle slope sheltered by the boughs of a big, black spruce, curled up as a dog would on a couch. He had… Feb 21 19February 21, 2019Article at The Atlantic
The Runty Prehistoric Mammals That Outlasted the DinosaursBEASTS BEFORE US The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution By Elsa Panciroli Richard Owen loathed small mammals, calling them “ratlike, shrewlike forms of the most stupid and unintelligent order of sucklers.” That wouldn’t have mattered if… Sep 09 21September 09, 2021Article at New York Times
Climate change and Western wildfires: gonna get hotterScience Progress looks at the discouraging feedback loop between climate change and Western wildfires: New research investigating the impact of climate change on western wildfires presents a bleak picture. CAP Senior Fellow Tom Kenworthy covers the… May 06 09May 06, 2009Article at Wired
Climate Change, Tree by Tree: How Would a Changing Climate Affect our Forests?Several climate-change models predict shorter snow seasons and more rain in winter. Most people who experienced the 1998 ice storm will wince when they hear the words 'rain' and 'winter' in the same sentence. Photo by Jim Block. My third-floor office… Jan 09 09January 09, 2009Article at Northern Woodlands
The Space BetweenA quarter-century after the publication of their landmark book The Northern Forest, two writers return to a changed landscape - and find hope in a conservationist committed to local solutions. As landscape, the woodlands we call the Northern Forest –… Aug 15 20August 15, 2020Article at Northern Woodlands
Part 1: Heritage TestedEarly morning fog settles across Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. Photo by Joseph Rossbach / Alamy Twenty years ago, an unprecedented land deal rocked northern New York and New England. The model of shared ownership that emerged changed the way land is… Jun 01 20June 01, 2020Article at Northern Woodlands
They Froze for Science -- and Got the EggsIn winter I sometimes warm up by reading books with real cold. For a few years years I shuttled between Rick Bass's *Winter, * about his first winter in Montana in the 1980s, and R.M. Patterson's magnificent, shivering Dangerous River, of his days… Jan 10 12January 10, 2012Article at Wired
A Musician Who Performs With a ScalpelFor Claudius Conrad, a 30-year-old surgeon who has played the piano seriously since he was 5, music and medicine are entwined from the academic realm down to the level of the fine-fingered dexterity required at the piano bench and the operating… May 20 08May 20, 2008Article at New York Times
The Choke Factor: How Stereotypes Affect PerformanceHow Stereotypes Shape Performance S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, and Thomas Kessler University of Exeter, UK Every sports fan has vivid memories of key occasions on which a favorite team or player has 'choked' under pressure. And every… Dec 05 07December 05, 2007Article at Scientific American
Turning Off DepressionGiven her background and curiosity, Helen Mayberg seems to have been destined from girlhood to do what she is doing now--even though her current work was inconceivable then. Her father practiced family medicine in Los Angeles County. Her uncle used… Aug 01 06August 01, 2006Article at Scientific American
