Wildlife ranges are forever changing. As is becoming more widely understood, species most now migrate to find appropriate new habitats in our changing world, not just to find food and shelter as the seasons change. These days, with the climate changing more quickly than species are able to migrate, they need our support through scientifically planned wildlife corridors, overpasses, and breeding refuges. Citizen scientists have long assisted in tracking changes in migration patterns and ranges, a crucial role as field science is notoriously under-valued and underfunded. If you ever see a truly distinctive bird, like a swallow-tailed kite, out of its usual range, you need to discipline yourself to trust your eyes, even if your bird book suggests the bird […]
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Tech Construction Boom
The Biden administration’s industrial policy, specifically the CHIPS and Science Act, appears to be having a serious real-world effect. Construction...
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Levy Institute: Climate Change and the Ethical Obligation to Know
“The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around.” Herman Daly In his presentation at the Levy Institute’s...
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A political angle on state quit rates
When mulling through state quit rates we found a striking pattern: states with high quit rates tended to vote red, and those with low rates,...