Reasons for Hope by Jason Pratt, contributing writer for rforh “Each year, Earth Day — April 22 — marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.”[1] So every year in the spring … Continue reading
By David Coppedge Three new studies show more benefits to exercise and home-grown food. The Endocrine Society has compared active and sedentary children in stressful situations. The sedentary children had elevated levels of cortisol, a stress indicator, when put into the same … Continue reading
Life-sustaining resources are right beneath our feet, says a Penn State hydrologist. Henry Lin, professor of hydropedology and soil hydrology at Penn State, has some good news for environmentalists worried about the availability of water for a thirsty world. In … Continue reading
Long thought a tree-killing bane, parasitic mistletoe appears to do much more good than harm to a forest ecology. David Watson, a researcher at Charles Sturt University in Albury, New South Wales, has been studying mistletoe for years, according to … Continue reading
A television nature conservation program1 in my South African homeland recently documented the mass translocation of a herd of gaur, also known as Indian bison (Bos gaurus) from one nature reserve to another in India. This large bovine, the largest of … Continue reading
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