The Aldo Leopold Foundation. The new issue of The Leopold Outlook magazine should be reaching our members in a week or so. In recognition of the centennial of the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the 40th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, this issue is all about endangered species and the extinction crisis. It addresses some of the pressing questions before us as we examine the problem of species decline. If you wish to receive a copy, consider joining the foundation as a member. The Leopold Outlook is one of our many member benefits. Read more updates in our May e-Newsletter online here. ShareThis Email this page to a friend or recommend it to others. Proud to be a part of the Wis-Conservation Way! QUEST | The Science of Sustainability. Getting Up Close with Cranes For decades, scientists have studied the annual migration of sandhill cranes through central Nebraska.
A new project is using time-lapse cameras to capture and study crane behavior. Continue Reading. Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment. Earthweek - A Diary of the Planet: News in Science, Health, Weather, Environment and Nature. Science News for Students. Richard Preston. (con't. from the Home Page) ... In THE WILD TREES, Richard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett and Marie Antoine, who found a lost world above California, dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled hanging gardens of ferns, reefs of lichens, small animals, and all sorts of plants, including thickets of huckleberry bushes and small trees actually growing on the branches of giant redwoods. There are massive redwood limb systems fused into flying buttresses and carved into “fire caves.”
Thick layers of soil sitting on limbs harbor animal and plant life unknown to science. Humans move through the deep canopy suspended on ropes, far out of sight of the ground, knowing that the price of a small mistake may be a plunge to one's death. Preston account of this world, by turns terrifying, moving, and fascinating, is an adventure story told in novelistic detail by a master of nonfiction narrative. “ENTHRALLING.” The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company- And Won: Gerald M. Stern: 9780307388490: Amazon.com: Books. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction: Annalee Newitz: 9780307949424: Amazon.com: Books. The Future of Life: Edward O. Wilson: 9780679768111: Amazon.com: Books. Unbowed: A Memoir (Vintage): Wangari Maathai: 9780307275202: Amazon.com: Books. Arctic Dreams: Barry Lopez: 9780375727481: Amazon.com: Books. Ten Billion (Vintage): Stephen Emmott: 9780345806475: Amazon.com: Books.
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future (Vintage): Climate Central: 9780307743367: Amazon.com: Books. Cartoon Guide to the Environment by Larry Gonick. Silent Spring. Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.[1] The book documented the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation and public officials of accepting industry claims unquestioningly.
In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to the American public. Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, but it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, led to a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses,[2] and inspired an environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[3][4] Research and writing[edit] Content[edit] Apocalyptic Planet: A Field Guide to the Future of the Earth (Vintage): Craig Childs: 9780307476814: Amazon.com: Books. The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler by Thomas Hager.