The following article has been excerpted from The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How it Shapes Our Planet by Christian Schwägerl, a book focusing on our entr...
Inevitably in late summer, we hear all kinds of stories about encounters with wildlife, either in parks or backyards, or from people’s camping or hiking tra...
A poll conducted by Explore Mars and Phillips & Company found that 71 percent of Americans surveyed are confident that the U.S. will land a human on Mar...
According to Dictionary.com, the word sustainable means, "pertaining to a system that maintains its own viability by using techniques that allow for continual r...
As parents, we know intuitively how important love is to learning. Love fuels persistence. British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead insisted all learning begi...
$34 billion: Costs associated with the loss of vultures in India
$310: Annual value per hectare of pest control by birds in a coffee plantation
$1,500: Annu...
Hey there Mr. Prime Minister, President, King, Despot, Corporate Mogul and globally cloned counterparts—congratulations from the new century! The year is 2101 t...
We can choose to give up smoking, to stop taking drugs, to lose weight, to get fit. We demand labelling of GMO products, but we humans, and all wildlife, are be...
Cows are controversial. You can get jail time if you kill one in India or you can get a full belly (and perhaps some indigestion) if you eat one in the West. ...
