For the past decade, the subject of global warming has been a touchy one to say the least. To some it is a simple fact supported by reams of scientific data, to others it is fear-mongering fiction promoted by “environmentalist radicals.”
Six Degrees
The Well-read Naturalist
Gathering Moss
Too small to be seen in detail without a strong hand lens and existing in a layer of atmosphere surrounding all terrestrial objects that is too subtle for our crude senses to perceive, mosses flourish throughout the world playing roles in the global ecosystem that we are only beginning to understand.
Falconer on the Edge
Falconry, steeped as it is in tradition and solitary as its practice out of necessity must be, is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
The Big Burn
As long as humankind has walked the Earth, fire has been both its liberator and its nightmare. The same elemental force that enabled our earliest ancestors to put behind them their daylight-limited existence and begin to shape their world in ways beyond their own physical capabilities is also the central theme of our most profound […]