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Is global warming to blame for the intensity of recent Atlantic hurricanes? While experts debate that question, they agree that tempests are headed our way
Wild Things: Life As We Know It
Human behavior, primate intelligence, meal planning, tree-dwelling orchids and detangling history
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Mountain lions are thought to be multiplying in the West and heading east. Can we learn to live with these beautiful, elusive creatures?
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Interview with Steve Kemper, Author of “Cougars on the Move”
Kemper talks about how cougars have been hated throughout history and what surprised him while researching the animals
Wild Things: Life As We Know It
Figs, canary songs, whales with legs, ancient flowering shrubs and beaver dams
Last Page: Weight of the World
The battle of the bulge goes global
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The 227-city U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement is just the beginning.
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As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die
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Wal-Mart and others are going green with “biodegradable” packaging made from corn. But is this really the answer to America’s throwaway culture?
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Paul Raffaele describes his adventures (and misadventures) in Indonesian New Guinea, reporting on the Korowai
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Why is horticulturalist Harry Jan Swartz so determined to grow an exotic strawberry beloved by Jane Austen?
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Monkey talk, reptilian altruism, anemone stings, aquatic crabs, and Thyrohyrax
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In the mid-1800s, “ships of the desert” reported for duty in the Southwest
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Despite poachers, insurgents and political upheaval, India and Nepal’s bold approach to saving wildlife in the Terai Arc just may succeed
A Danish photographer goes the extra mile to document wildlife in one of North America’s most remote areas, now coveted by mining and oil companies
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In a new book written with his wife, Nancy Abrams, cosmologist Joel Primack argues that the universe was meant for us. Sort of
Interview with John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin
The authors of “Building an Arc” talk about wildlife conservation and what drew them to work with tigers.
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The Strawberry with “Wicked Wiles”
David Chelf, a former physicist who shifted gears into horticulture, launched a venture in 2003 to grow large quantities of Mara des Bois strawberries
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Al Gore Discusses “An Inconvenient Truth”
Environmentalist Al Gore talks about his new movie
An interview with Laura Tangley, author of “Learning from Tai Shan” in the June 2006 issue of SMITHSONIAN.
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