Hello there – this is David from BSI posting on behalf of Jeff (who is currently on vacation in Florida!).
Many of you remember Jeff’s previous post about the recent Audubon report that found 177 bird species have experienced northward movement in ranges as a result of climate change and warming temperatures. Jeff conducted several radio [...]

 
Deline at Sunrise
Credit: Ed Reeves
Last week I wrote about the report released by Audubon last week that documented northward range shifts in 177 bird species. Coverage of the report was incredibly widespread with hundreds of media stories (click here to the story in USA Today).
In one story I was quoted talking about the northward expansion [...]

 
Turkey Vulture
Credit: Kirk Rogers
It’s cold and clear this early February day in Maine. We have about three feet of hard packed snow on the ground and the wide Kennebec River is frozen enough to support a small city of smelt fishing shacks. It seems like winter has us firmly in its strong icy hands. But [...]

Just came across this statement in a rather dry scientific paper that I was reading yesterday (Luyssaert, L., et al. 2007. CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database. Global Change Biology 13:2509-2537.)
“…preservation of unmanaged forest ecosystems could be just as important as reforestation efforts in mitigating climate change through [...]

Credit: Jeff Wells
Some people find them sick, others disheartening, but dumps seem to be a fixture of human existence and the hoards of wildlife that they often attract make them places to watch some fascinating animals up close and personal. Dumps or landfills, as we like to call them nowadays in that sanitized euphemistic way, [...]