You have to see this! It is the largest glacier calving ever filmed. It is not a time-lapse. It unfolded exactly as you see here. Watch to the end for a sense of the enormity of it. From the documentary, Chasing Ice. On May 28,...
Read MoreIn honor of Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday today, I’d like to take a minute to remind everyone – no matter where you are — that this land, is indeed, your land. In Guthrie’s time the North American Dust Bowl, the result...
Read MoreAnd as far as warmth and protection are concerned, there is a good deal of the virtue of wool in such a snow-fall. How it protects the grass, the plants, the roots of the trees, and the worms, insects, and smaller animals in the...
Read MoreI know most of my science followers already saw this over on PZ Myer’s blog, but for the rest of you.. well .. just this: And, if you’re in the US (and maybe Canada?) be sure to catch BBC’s Frozen Planet on the...
Read MoreLast night we went to see Al Gore give a presentation in Toronto. Now first off, I want to say, I voted for the man THREE times: twice as Vice President and once as President. (My only regret is that I wasn’t registered to vote...
Read MoreImagine a complex society, maybe tens of thousands of members strong; an unusually long-lived society with extended families of 5 or even 6 generations that live, work, play, and travel together. Now imagine a geological and...
Read MoreThis is my grass. And I don’t care. What I do care about is that this is our 4th or 5th week without rain. Today is expected to be the hottest day ever officially recorded in the Toronto region. I care about that because when...
Read MoreWhile all my writer friends were at the Ontario Writers Conference this weekend, I was attending the The Globe and Mail Open House Festival at the Toronto Reference Library listening to a panel discussion entitled “The...
Read MoreIn the movie Armageddon, a giant asteroid is about to hit earth and the whole world watches in terror as a crack team of space cowboys goes up and blows it to smithereens. Whew! Crisis averted. The world cheers. Life goes on....
Read MoreCan animals evolve in response to climate change? One of the concerns with climate change is that rate of evolutionary response by animal species will be unable to keep up with the rate of climate change itself. This is a...
Read MoreI’ve spent this week following the trial of Tim DeChristopher. In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher attended a federal auction of oil and gas leases on nearly 150,000 acres of land near national parks in Utah. The leases were...
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