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‘Rodentologist’ wants New Yorkers to know more about city’s rats

Rats. In New York, they can outnumber humans four to one, and at any given time, anywhere between 2 million and 32 million wild rats roam the five boroughs. Given their sheer numbers, you’d ...

DATE: Aug 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Mexican farmers using fireflies to save forest

NANACAMILPA, Mexico – In the village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. Thousands ...

DATE: Jul 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

California’s huge trees cloned to fight climate change

CAMP NELSON, Calif. – At the foot of a giant sequoia in California’s Sierra Nevada, two arborists stepped into harnesses then inched up ropes more than 20 stories into the dizzying canopy of...

DATE: Jul 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Unusual winter hampered Dolores River boating release

Forecasting tough for McPhee managers

DATE: Jul 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Wolfwood to bring wolves to Vallecito campground Wolfwood Refuge will visit Vallecito Reservoir from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 6 at Five Branches Campground, 4677 County Road 501A. ...

DATE: Jul 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

How to find the dinosaurs that hide inside modern birds

Dinosaurs still roam the Earth. You don’t even have to go to a distant swamp or an isolated jungle plateau to see them. They’re everywhere - waddling over Antarctic ice, sprinting through th...

DATE: Jul 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Workshops to teach birding, fly fishing Durango Nature Studies will host back-to-back events Saturday: The “Birds of the Nature Center” workshop will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the D...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Snow, sea ice keep hitting record lows this year in Northern Hemisphere

As climate scientists nervously watch the Arctic and high latitudes this summer – fearing how 2016’s record warmth could push the delicate system – two new pieces of data are hardly consolin...

DATE: Jul 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Climate change affects distribution of clouds across Earth

In a new study published in Nature, scientists say they have for the first time thoroughly documented one of the most profound planetary changes yet to be caused by a warming climate: The di...

DATE: Jul 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Calling someone a birdbrain might actually be a compliment

“Size matters.” Maybe it’s time we toss that little putdown out the window, a new study says. Here’s why: The brain of a macaw, about the size of a walnut, is much smal...

DATE: Jul 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

Good Earth Briefs

Forest Service monitors ponderosa saplings The Pagosa Ranger District of the San Juan National Forest is monitoring 600 ponderosa pine saplings recently planted around the northern loop of W...

DATE: Jul 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

This new Antarctica study is bad news for climate change doubters

For a number of years now, climate change skeptics and doubters have argued that there’s a key part of the Earth’s climate system that upends our expectations about global warming, and that ...

DATE: Jul 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Good Earth

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