Chasing Spring follows nature’s season of renewal even as it shows how the delicate mechanisms of spring are increasingly endangered by climate change. With mortality …
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Chasing Spring
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Theories for Everything
Theories for Everything highlights the rich, compelling stories behind science’s greatest discoveries and the minds and methods that made them possible. Authoritative, entertaining, and easy …
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Natural Lives, Modern Times
The Delaware River flows out of New York’s Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, …
Walking With Wordsworth: Visiting England’s Lake District
“A WILD SCENE OF CRAG AND MOUNTAIN,” THE ROUGHLY THOUSAND SQUARE MILES THAT COMPRISE ENGLAND’S LAKE DISTRICT INSPIRED THE IDEALS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA AND …
Transylvania: Welcome to the Future
A dictator wanted to raze it with bulldozers. Investors wanted to turn it into a theme park called Draculaland. In a forgotten pocket of Central …
Britain’s Elusive Eco-Town Dream
Where the Past Meets the Carbon-Neutral Future Once the train gets beyond the outskirts of London, the English countryside comes into view, a panorama of …
The New Urbanists: Tackling Europe’s Sprawl
In the last few decades, urban sprawl, once regarded as largely a U.S. phenomenon, has spread across Europe. Now an emerging group of planners is …
Africa on the Auction Block
Millions of acres of fertile farmland in the developing world are being sold or leased to outside powers, raising the spectre of a new era …
Adaptation Emerges as Key Part of Any Climate Change Plan
After years of reluctance, scientists and governments are now looking to adaptation measures as critical for confronting the consequences of climate change. And increasingly, plans …
Green Roofs are Starting To Sprout in American Cities
Long a proven technology in Europe, green roofs are becoming increasingly common in U.S. cities, with major initiatives in Chicago, Portland, and Washington, D.C. While …
Are Cell Phones Safe? The Verdict is Still Out
While some studies have suggested that frequent use of cell phones causes increased risk of brain and mouth cancers, others have found no such links. …
Companies Put Restrictions On Research into GM Crops
A battle is quietly being waged between the industry that produces genetically modified seeds and scientists trying to investigate the environmental impacts of engineered crops. …
A Controversial Drilling Practice Hits Roadblock in New York
Hydro fracturing is a profitable method of natural gas extraction that uses large quantities of water and chemicals to free gas from underground rock formations. …
New York City Girds Itself for Heat and Rising Seas
By the end of the century, New York’s climate could resemble that of present-day Raleigh, North Carolina and its harbor could easily rise by two …
Creature of the Deep
It’s been around since the dinosaurs, but it may now be close to extinction. What can we do to save the amazing sturgeon? My first …