Blowing in the Wind
Linda PlattsFor generations, families who settles on the prairies and plains of the great mid-section of the United States have done battle with the wind. It…
On the Brink
Linda PlattsA small chocolate-brown mammal that inhabits the alpine reaches of Vancouver Island in western Canada has found a benefactor in what may be the nick…
All Purpose Coconuts
Linda PlattsA Thai farmer from a rural province south of Bangkok has found yet another use for the versatile coconut. Not only does its flesh provide…
Slippery Slopes
Linda PlattsMore than 200 million impoverished people worldwide make their homes on hillsides. These hillsides are the source of some 20 percent of the world’s freshwater,…
Waste Not Want Not
Linda PlattsTwo companies that appear to have little in common have joined forces to build processing plants that will convert biomass to energy and create organic…
The Caribou Question
Deborah JacobsBy Deborah Jacobs As politicians debate oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), public attention has turned to the caribou. Due to their…
Arctic Expeditions of the 19th Century
Daniel BenjaminBy Daniel K. Benjamin Government-sponsored polar expeditions made fewer major discoveries introduced fewer innovations, lost more ships, and had more explorers die. Throughout the nineteenth…
