October 2011 Archives
Golden Green:
Small is beautiful. That's Bill McKibben's hopeful prescription for a durable life on a post-climate change Earth.
Commentary:
Blackbrush can live 400 years or more, but will this slow-growth plant survive climate change?
Land Use:
The National Park Service (NPS) released a study last week, detailing how California's San Gabriel Watershed and Mountains might fit into the National Park System. The Draft San Gabriel Watershed and Mountains Special Resource Study and Environmental Assessment is...
Golden Green:
Rick Perry is a climate-change denier. His wife thinks he's Moses. You decide.
Commentary:
The desert has long been the red-headed stepchild of the environmental movement, the place that few really want to adopt, to protect.
Golden Green:
On San Bruno Mountain, butterflies went head-to-head with bulldozers. Forty years later the battle still rages.
Golden Green:
Can college dormitories--once Animal Houses-like hovels--point the way to a greener future? Pomona College is betting on it.
Wildlife:
Unlike the six or so other rattler species in the California deserts, which possess the standard rattlesnake toxin that causes widespread internal hemorrhaging, the Mojave green adds a neurotoxin to the mix.
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