Coyote Crossing

I wish they’d stop printing books I want to read

...especially given that I have no income.

This one sounds good:

Every scientific study confirms that global warming will cause the amount of water in the Colorado River to decline, yet because we already use every drop, there is none to

Tree Deaths Double in West

From the US Geological Survey:

Tree death rates have more than doubled over the last few decades in old-growth forests of the western United States, and the most probable cause of the worrisome trend is regional warming, according to a U.S.

Mexican Wolf

One of the last wild Mexican wolves, filmed only a short time before the species went extinct in the wild. Details by the videographer are below the … (continues)

Thylacine

In addition to a brief, wishful-thinking introductory clip of an alleged recent sighting, this video contains all known footage of Thylacinus cynocephalus, the largest predatory marsupial of modern times. The Thylacine, also known as the

Possum in West Hollywood

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“The fish are missing. They are gone.”

The coho run in Lagunitas Creek has crashed. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

The lack of rain this winter has contributed to what fisheries biologists say is, so far, the worst return of coho salmon in the recorded history of Marin County’s

By A Nail

A running coyote, painting by Carl Dennis Buell

The ancestor of all dogs climbed trees like a cat.

Or so the experts hypothesize. The raccoon-sized, foxy omnivore Prohesperocyon is as likely a candidate for the ancestor of all dogs, wolves and

Diorama-rama

[photo, left: Dead porcupine, Los Angeles]

One thing about the home I left this year, the SF Bay Area: The science museums there will spoil you but good. The flagship is the California Academy of Sciences, for whose erstwhile publication I

Technically, the Arctic is a desert

This is very, very hard to watch.

Do it anyway.

Go to http://www.SaveThePolarBear.org. Sign the petition. Spread the … (continues)

Genetically Modified Organisms: A Non-Knee-Jerk Primer

[This post was at first a comment on the Vilsack thread, and after a couple requests to promote it to post status I am doing just that, after correcting a couple of typos. Hope someone finds it useful.]

Unlike a lot of environmentalists I don’t

Serendipity Doo Dah

Via Tee Poole, an astronomer’s sky cam in New Mexico catches something … (continues)

Noshing Pronghorn

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Rio Puerco Raven

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Yucca jaegeriana

A kind reader sent me the article I asked for in this post, and I’ve filed it away in the database. Most of the writing I do as regards the paper will be for the book, but it’s relatively big news and I just have to engage in the sobersided,

Desert Bones

Despite its dangerous reputation among non-physicists, the typical uranium atom is only weakly radioactive. More than 99 percent of the uranium found in nature consists of the isotope U-238, whose atomic nucleus contains 92 protons and 146