Many insects have a reputation as pests, but humanity has always lived in symbiosis with bees. Their honey is among nature’s sweetest treats; more than that, we rely on bees to pollinate many of our crops. Without bees, some 80% of the plants from which we derive...
These days, unless an environmental issue is presented on a scale such as that depicted in doomsday movies (think oceans swallowing cities or asteroids crashing into the Earth), it can be easy to ignore or dismiss. Rising sea levels are a direct effect of climbing...
In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich made a terrifying prediction that the human population was on a rapid path to extinction because there were simply too many of us and demand would exceed the supply of the Earth’s...
