Humans Squishing Bugs
Invertebrates pulverized by one species of vertebrate We wildlife conservationists are in the habit of playing up the threat posed by humans... Read More
On Our Innumeracy
When I blog, it will be almost exclusively about the United States, one of the three most overpopulated nations. That is due... Read More
Diamonds (and Human Impacts) Are Forever: The Long-Lived Consequences of Growth
A “long time” depends on perspective – to an impatient child it’s measured in minutes, to a historian in decades or centuries,... Read More
Soil Erosion Threatens Food Production
Soil erosion is a significant global problem, warned scientists at a recent conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.... 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
Fresh Water from the Sea?
Desalination Is No Panacea As California’s epic drought continues, many in the state are considering sea water desalination as a solution. The... 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
Houston: Planet Earth Has a Big Problem – Human Overpopulation
On May 4, NBC did a short piece about climate change in advance of a report to be released on the issue.... Read More