Tag Archive | "forests"
Little Green Bugs Ruining Baseball?
It’s probably not a surprise to anybody to hear me say that Detroit is having severe difficulties coping with an Asian newcomer right now. It might, however, come as a bit of a shock to hear that rather than some new hybrid automobile, the state best known for [...]
Continue reading...Chiang Mai: Where Influential Locals Meet to Set Forest Fires
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Richard Rhodes continues his commentary on the burning fires he is witnessing from the jungle in Thailand. A unique insight into perhaps the single biggest factor behind global warming: forest fires. A new report suggests that sharks aren’t too keen on rising sea temperatures so they’re off to [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1778
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India, the Roman Empire, and the Japanese Edo period. A painting of the 1778 Bishnoi massacre Today we’re going to India in 1778 to cover a forest, a desert, and a tribe of environmentalists [...]
Continue reading...Environmentalism in 1666
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India and the Roman Empire. Today we revisit Japan’s Edo period in the mid-1600s, a time of turmoil that resulted in an amazingly complex environmental policy that still influences our ideas on conservation [...]
Continue reading...A Chocolate Box of Weirdness
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thailand is both amazing and weird. This week has been a chocolate box of strange flavours that you’re unlikely to ever experience in the West. An area of Chiang Mai affected by forest fires recently set by residents. Photo by Richard Rhodes. Let me give you a taste: Rung [...]
Continue reading...Mushroom Making, Thai Style
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Last night we drove past our friend’s house (our closest neighbour is 1km away) to see a forest fire encroaching on his doorstep. Image by John Dalton. View Richard Rhodes’ video of the Chiang Mai fires on YouTube here He was waiting in the living room with all his [...]
Continue reading...Trees Are Not The Answer To Climate Change
Thursday, January 3, 2008
What was once seen as the solution to all our CO2 problems, the ability of trees to soak up anthropogenic carbon dioxide, has itself been hindered by global warming.
Continue reading...Woolly Mammoths Were Killed Off by Trees
Monday, December 17, 2007
Cavemen have been getting a bad rap long before that awful show based on the Geico commercials came out. For years we’ve taken it as gospel truth that the woolly mammoth was hunted to extinction by our hairy ancestors. Some scientists, however, are suggesting that
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
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