Archive for July, 2008

Reporter's Notes: California Ablaze

Reporter's Notes: California Ablaze

One thing you try to learn, covering these stories, is how to navigate around the tricky subject of climate change. The trickiness isn't if it's happening, but rather what, exactly, it's doing, what the effects are. Take this year's particularly nasty fire season, for example. We've had the driest spring in 80 years, and warm [...]

 
Wire Snares in Africa

Wire Snares in Africa

Photo by: Melissa Batson And how they put a snare in the plan for chimps and humans to live together. In the Budongo Forests of Uganda, a large group of Chimpanzees, named by researchers The Sonso Group, attempt to thrive in their natural habitat, eating plants and small prey. At the same time, humans who [...]