Honey, Someone Shrunk the Sheep!
Sheep on Soay Island off the west coast of Scotland are getting smaller, defying the evolutionary advantage that typically accrues to larger animals when food becomes scarce during cold weather. Increasingly warmer winters have shortened the season of scarcity, enabling smaller sheep to survive — and give birth to more small sheep.
Large Blue Butterfly Makes a Comeback 30 Years After ‘Extinction’
After WWII, changing land use and agricultural practices in England robbed the large blue caterpillars of their favorite food: red ant grubs. No grubs? No caterpillars, no large blue butterflies. Now, thanks to restoration and reintroduction efforts, they’re back, along with increases in rare birds, plants and other butterflies.
Alternet interviews director, Robert Kenner, about the making of this disturbing look at the health, human rights and environmental issues surrounding what you ate for dinner last evening. It seems there’s a lot the food industry doesn’t want you to know — and will go to lengths to keep you from finding out.
How Our Fast-Paced Lives are Making Us Sick
Linda Buzzell, co-editor of Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind, explains how living under biologically unnatural time pressures can lead to psychological, social and physical ailments, and offers a few suggestions for recalibrating ourselves to a more natural pace of living.
The U.S. Climate Bill: Key Elements
Having trouble making heads or tails of the climate bill passed by the US House of Representatives last week? PlanetArk highlights key elements.
Carbon Tax Proving Effective in Sweeden
In 1991, the Swedes established a carbon tax that bears on energy consumption. To the skeptics who assert that this tax kills growth, they answer with their record: since the introduction of the tax, Swedish greenhouse gas waste has been reduced by 9 percent, while, during the same period, economic growth was 48 percent.
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