A regrettable choice of words: An elephant in the room, a straw man or a red herring?
A study recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reached the unsurprising if not... Read More
In Tribute to Late Population Activists and Friends – Al Bartlett, Joyce Tarnow, Leon Bouvier, Alan Kuper, Gaylord Nelson, Garrett Hardin and K.R. Hammond
Having been immersed in the U.S. population stabilization movement for a couple of decades or more, I have had the great honor... Read More
Twilight Zone? Onset of the Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction
One profligate species causes demise of thousands Over its storied 3.8-billion year history, the long-running epic called Life on Earth has suffered... Read More
Today is World Elephant Day
Today is World Elephant Day. Sunday was World Lion Day. Frankly, every day could be given over to recognizing an animal, because... Read More
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
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
Reflections on Earth Day
The first Earth Day was Saturday, April 22, 1970, and was unprecedented and thoroughly astonishing. No government or large civic group hatched... Read More
Concerned Maui Residents Join Together to Save Species, Beaches
On Maui’s southern coast, tourist foot traffic and development have gradually increased dune erosion and left the Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) without... Read More
Bill Gates Weighs in on ‘The Bet’ over the Earth’s Future
In 1981, the same year that Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, an economist and an ecologist made a simple but... Read More