Bruce Smith
- Aug 31
- 1 min
Losing Ice
Have you had someone give you a blank look when you've mentioned something about the climate warming? Even a response such as, "It's been...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Frogs in the Desert
With all the discouraging news we hear about loss of biodiversity and environmental health, we need stories of conservation successes. ...
Bruce Smith
- May 7
- 1 min
Rebalancing Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management, which manages more public land (245 million acres) than any other federal agency, may be on the cusp of...
Bruce Smith
- Apr 20
- 1 min
Celebrate the Planet!
This week is National Environmental Education Week. It culminates in Earth Day celebrations on April 22 -- another American idea...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 8
- 1 min
UN High Seas Treaty Reached
On the heels of last year's historic climate and biodiversity conservation agreements--multinational agreements to slow the climate's...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Indigenous Peoples as Protectors
It's been said that forests are the lungs of the planet. Saving the Earth's tropical and temperate forests is an essential element in...
Bruce Smith
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Going, going, gone
The world's glaciers are frozen reservoirs of water that sustain nearly 2 billion people worldwide. As glaciers melt away, so do the...
Bruce Smith
- Jan 1
- 1 min
Just hanging on ...
A bit of good news in the New Year. The most recent gathering of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal produced a...
Bruce Smith
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
Where did all the critters go?
I've written several blog posts earlier this year about the continuing loss of Earth's biodiversity. Not a happy subject. Yet, as with...
Bruce Smith
- Sep 25, 2022
- 1 min
Bumblebees on the Move
As the climate of the Rocky Mountains warms, bumblebee inhabitants of lower elevations are shifting their ranges into the alpine...
Bruce Smith
- Jul 31, 2022
- 1 min
Disappearing Climates & Biodiversity
Protected areas are biodiversity reservoirs around the globe. But as the warming of the planet's climate accelerates, species using...
Bruce Smith
- Jul 11, 2022
- 1 min
Nature's true value
Drawing on more than 1,000 scientific studies assessing the value of nature, a landmark study published by the Intergovernmental...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 20, 2022
- 1 min
Spillover: Emerging Disease Threats
A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature in April discussed how interactions between people and animals are at the heart of...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Birds in a Tailspin
Over the seven years we've lived outside of Bozeman, Montana, the change we've noticed is dramatic. We just don't see the birds we used...
Bruce Smith
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
Rights of Nature
Following on my March 7th post about the newly enacted law in Panama, the highest court in India has likewise ruled that "Mother Nature "...
Bruce Smith
- Mar 7, 2022
- 1 min
Nature’s Rights
Panama’s president, Laurentino Cortizo, signed into law far-reaching protections for the natural world last week. The legislation, which...
Bruce Smith
- Dec 28, 2021
- 1 min
The Passing of a Giant
By now you may have heard that over the past 2 days, the world has lost 2 men each of whom were luminaries in their fields: Archbishop...