Can technology help solve environmental problems facing our planet? Sometimes. And sometimes those solutions come from the youngest among us. This inspiring article in Smithsonian magazine about two teenagers in Portugal is bound to lift your spirits. Not only because of the utility of the invention they developed, but because at such a young age they did this. Since the early 2000s, Portugal has lost over half of its forest cover, triggering erosion, water l

Dead elephant seals Do you know what's happening to plant and animal species that Indigenous peoples rely on in Amazonia? How about Siberian tigers in the taiga? Or the miniscule Macaya breast-spot frog of Haiti? Because there are so many consequential environmental and conservation issues, taking in the full scope of the challenges facing nature can feel overwhelming to me. But if we don't know about them, we won't care. And if we don't care, we aren't spurred to a

Congress has begun nullifying resource management plans that were developed and implemented to guide long-term stewardship of federal lands. Plans cooperatively developed by the federal Bureau of Land Management in Montana, North Dakota, and Alaska -- in consultation with scientists, conservation groups, indigenous peoples, industry, and other users of these tracts of federal lands -- are the first on the chopping block. These Resource Management Plans (RMPs) provide stabil

Bearded vulture Investigation of human history includes many disciplines. Of these, ethnobiology -- the study of dynamic relationships...

The Trump administration seeks to weaken conservation by rescinding a rule that governs public land use. The Conservation and Landscape...

The undammed Klamath In a previous  pos t on April 15, 2024, I shared a story about removal of four dams on California and Oregon's...

Honeybee In one of the world's hot spots of bee biodiversity, scientists are finding that one species overwhelms total numbers of all...

North American endangered species This proposal "threatens a half-century of progress in protecting and restoring endangered species," is...

Protests against federal job purges Staff of crucial scientific and medical research CUT Stewards of our public lands: parks, forests,...

Feeding of elk on the National Elk Refuge I haven't posted about this topic for a while, but this reporting in WyoFile is newsworthy. ...

Newly published research in Science predicts that by 2070 almost half of Earth's land surface will experience increases in spatial...

In my blog posts, I rarely link news articles, rather than the original source of the topics. This post is an exception. The linked...

A new Department of Interior rule could put conservation, recreation, and renewable energy on equal footing with traditional priorities...

This linked 5-minute video tells a very big story -- so big that there has never been such a restoration of a river system and its salmon...

An article about conservation I came across caught my attention. It describes the dangerous conditions under which Ukranian biologists...

March is finally here, the month when spring arrives (according to my calendar), and our first migratory nesting birds return from their...

This is a tough one. As this Smithsonian article explains, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposes the killing of thousands of barred...

November (I'm a bit late with this) was Native American Heritage Month. Among the many contributions native people make to the culture...

This past summer, Arctic temperatures reached their warmest ever translating into thawing permafrost, flooding due to melting glaciers,...

If you've been waiting for the right time--or for the right person--to buy the Legend Keepers books, this is it! Hidden Shelf Publishing...