Arctic Expeditions of the 19th Century
By 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…
Blowing in the Wind
For 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
A 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…
Slippery Slopes
More 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
Two 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
By Deborah Jacobs As politicians debate oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), public attention has turned to the caribou. Due to their…
The Legacy of the DDT Ban
Malaria makes a comeback.
Heirloom Apples: A Market Taste?
Does commercial activity destroy diversity?
Taking on the Commons
Local control preserves Maine lobster fishing.
Arctic Expeditions of the 19th Century
By 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…
