The Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
I know you won’t believe me that families of human beings arrived on tiny Easter Island before any such …
Category Archives: Environment
Walking the Sierras, One Millennium at a Time
As a kid, like many other kids, I was fascinated by time travel. And perplexed. If I could go back …
San Francisco Storms
San Francisco Bay, Storms, Photos
Bird Life — The Thing With Feathers
It’s not all war, all the time on this blog. I do take breaks. Last month it was for a …
Doing Desert
There is in Tecopa Hot Springs, California, on the flat top of a small hill, a labyrinth of stones. Unlike …
Death Valley, Spring 2014, A Scent of Rain
The Sixth Extinction — We’re It
From the first major extinction event on earth to the present is about 443 million years. That’s a lot a …
Snowy Owl in Florida
Not my photo … just whishin’ ….
Chasing Ice — A Movie, And Evidence, Not To Miss
We’d put Chasing Ice, a new documentary by Jeff Orlowski, on the second tier of movies-to-see over the holidays. But …
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and Power by Steve Coll
The London Review of Books [8 Nov, 2012] reviews Steve Coll’s new, indispensable volume, Private Empire: ExxonMobile and Power. Coll will be …
Bioluminescence Flashes to the Rescue
Very cool article a couple of weeks back in the NY Times about Laura Widder, a famed marine biologist, who …
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing …