Lots of People + Lots of Lights = Light Pollution
From Down Under comes a curious headline that “Light pollution is killing astronomy.” For many folks, the very notion that too much... Read More
On the Road in the Philippines: A Look at Mass Deforestation
Checkpoint for illegal logging in the Phillipines Traveling in Mindanao at the bottom of the Philippines this month, I decided to take... Read More
One Primate’s Population Soars, Causing Hundreds of Others to Sink
On Planet Earth as a whole, the population of exactly one species of primate is surging, at the expense of hundreds of... Read More
Environmental Justice and Immigration
Back in 1994, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, entitled “Executive Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income... Read More
Overpopulation, Development, Stagnation, Migration and Vindication
Rejecting demographic reality should not be rewarded. Back in 1994, the Los Angeles Times published a letter to the editor of mine... Read More
Awful Air Pollution
It Costs Billions of Dollars and Millions of Lives Annually A 2015 study in the scientific journal Nature found that outdoor air... Read More
World’s Wilderness Disappearing
Another Dispatch from a Vanishing Realm “In Canada and Alaska there are still large expanses of virgin country, where nameless men by nameless... Read More
Our Home in the Heavens
Every August, in its annual journey around the Sun, our Earth passes through a stream of debris known as the Perseid cloud,... Read More
August 8 is Earth Overshoot Day
Today, Monday, August 8, is Earth Overshoot Day. This is the estimated date – as determined annually by the Global Footprint Network... Read More
California’s Amazing Trees
When it comes to trees, California is a land of superlatives. It has always struck me as incredible that this one state... Read More