Obama is Cracking no Jokes now about Moats, Alligators at the Border
Now it’s Back to Bush Blame Game for Crisis at the Border In a May 2011 speech near the U.S.-Mexico border in... Read More
The State of the Population Debate
Today is World Population Day, observed internationally since 1989 to bring awareness to the urgency and importance of population issues and to... Read More
A Perfect Storm at our Southern Border
By Leon Kolankiewicz June 24, 2014 The crisis that has erupted at our southern border is a direct and all-too-predictable result of... Read More
An Ironic Way to Celebrate World Environment Day
June 5 is World Environment Day World Environment Day is sort of a global version of Earth Day. It was first established... Read More
Groundwater Pumping Increasing Seismic Activity
Is the combined weight of 38 million Californians actually deforming the Earth’s crust and increasing the number of earthquakes as well as... Read More
Food Grows Where Water Flows
The Huffington Post helpfully informs us that “if you like to eat, you should really be worried about California’s drought.” Even those... Read More
California’s Imperiled Population
As a wildlife biologist, it’s only natural that I write volumes on how a massive and rapidly growing human population in California... Read More
Population and the National Climate Assessment
If you are a population activist, you are likely to be disappointed if you do a word search for “population” in the... Read More
Is Abundant Human Population Compatible with Abundant Wildlife Populations?
As an undergraduate majoring in fisheries and wildlife management, I learned numerous wildlife management techniques, tools and technologies. Later, as a fisheries... Read More
Maligning Earth Day
The other day an acquaintance sent me a list of predictions supposedly made at the time of the very first Earth Day... Read More