Braving the Amazon to Study Climate Change
By Jonathan Trinastic (@jptrinastic) Scientists may not be known as the most courageous folk. They deserve such recognition, given their history…
Category: Environment
Can We Turn Evaporation into Cheap Electricity?
The power of water has long been harnessed by humanity, but another part of the water cycle is being used to turn evaporation into electricity.
Off-Grid Tiny House Will Blow Your Mind
This is not the set of a sci-fi show. It is the Ecocapsule, an independent off-the-grid micro house from Nice…
Declining Bee Populations Revisited
Are we headed toward a future with no bees? Declining Bee Populations Revisited covers what we know about bee hive collapse and recovery.
Only Three Isle Royale Wolves Remain
Only three Isle Royale Wolves remain, according the the latest count. Find out why, and if anything can be done to save the wolf population.
Yaffle: Meet the European Green Woodpecker
By Steven Spence “Yaffle” was one of the English folk names given to the European green woodpecker (German Grünspecht; Latin…
Polar Bears Are Struggling to Find Food
Find out what is happening to the polar bears: As the arctic ice melts, polar bears must look for food on land, and there isn’t enough.
Illegal Cocoa Farms Threaten Primates
When a team of researchers set out to count the endangered primates in Ivory Coast national parks and forest reserves,…
Wild Red Kite: Red and Deadly
Photography and Text by Steven Spence This is a wild red kite (German: Roter Milan; Latin Milvus milvus ), which…
Solar Eclipse from Stuttgart, Germany
On March 20, 2015, people across Europe, northern and eastern Asia, and northern and western Africa were treated to…