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Is there a middle ground between joyless carbon asceticism and the complete absolution of personal responsibility?
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On canceling Darwin and Muir
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Climate migration and the imagined pristine
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Our impotent response to the climate crisis is due to many things. One of those things is undoubtedly the difficulty in wrapping our minds around a phe…
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The real coup in science can be to understand the rules of the particular world you’re studying, and figure out how to ask questions of it on its own t…
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We can and should slow climate change, selectively thin choked forests, restrict development in the WUI, and return fire to its pre-colonial role on th…
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I first visited Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in 2008. I came back both of the following two years, and then not again until the fall of 2017. On retu…
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About a mile south of our house is an arroyo that begins in the foothills before cutting through a mostly residential corner of the city and winding it…
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Arizona and New Mexico are warming more quickly than anywhere else in the United States. You’d expect their plant and animals would be especially vulne…
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A few months ago, stewing on a grant application, I asked my postdoc advisor what he considered to be the biggest unanswered question related to birds …
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Twice this week I was reminded that we are terrible at talking about wilderness. First, the The Atlantic launched a new series titled “Who Owns America…
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A question that vexes me greatly is why scrub oak (or Gambel oak, Quercus gambelii) lives some places and not others. Why, for instance, does the speci…
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