The Grey Wolf (Canis lupus), almost hunted to near extinction in the lower forty-eight states, once again can be legally killed. This has come about after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the wolf off the endangered species list last May and will allow Idaho and Montana to reduce the wolf population down to [...]
I was recently watching this TV program on black holes. As usual when I contemplate such things, I became slightly depressed. When a star which is about three times or more the mass of our sun reaches the end of its life, it collapses and in the process blows out a great mass of matter [...]
About 12,900 years ago, most of the large megafauna of the New World disappeared. This included the Mammoth, Mastodons, giant ground sloths, saber tooth tigers, camels, horses and many others. This happened very rapidly and has been a source of speculation amongst scientists. Most of the speculation has fallen into one of the following [...]
“…And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Can you imagine a world that contained no Siberian Tigers? No cheetahs? No Blue Whales? No elephants? [...]
I remember in the early seventies talking to my friends about starting a movement to set aside a preserve of some sort in the Amazon River valley to save some of the unique rainforest found in that area. This was out of concern created by the recent completion of the trans-Amazonian highway. With the opening [...]
There was an article in the paper a few days ago talking about how the common birds of Washington State are diminishing drastically in numbers. Today they took the American Bald Eagle off the endangered species list, but unfortunately many of these common birds don’t have the glamour nor do they occupy public awareness as does the magnificent [...]
