The Carnivore Way: A Transboundary Conservation Vision
By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 13th, 2014
ecology
#ForewordFriday: Red Pill/Blue Pill Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On May 9th, 2014
If you've flipped through the latest issue of the New Yorker, you may have spotted "Green is Good" (subscription required), which profiles The Nature Conservancy's president and CEO, Mark Tercek, and a few of the projects they've worked on since he joined the organization. The article mentions Keeping the Wild, a compilation of essays confronting the principles of the "new conservation" that Tercek supports, inc
Rise of the Superbugs
By Mark Jerome Walters / On May 5th, 2014
Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a sobering report on the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Two main messages are unmistakable:
Antibiotic-resistant disease is no longer a threat looming in the future. The long-predicted threat has now arrived.
Ecodemics like outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant disease are largely of our own making. We are not innocent bystanders.
Wood Ducks on a Wild River
By Eric Dinerstein / On April 30th, 2014
Originally published by Village News, a publication of the community of Cabin John, MD.
Wild, undammed rivers make dangerous neighbors.
#ForewordFriday: Rhino Latrine Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 18th, 2014
Some people collect coins, some people collect books; people like Eric Dinerstein collect sightings of rare species. In The Kingdom of Rarities, newly released in paperback, Dinerstein shares stories from his career spent traveling the world in search of Andean cocks-of-the-rock, armadillos, and saolas. As he travels, he shares stories of how these species affect the ecosystems they live in and how scientists are working to learn more about them and how they can be protected.
Wolves in a Tangled Bank
By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
#ForewordFriday: Get Your Hands Dirty Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On April 11th, 2014
With spring finally starting to show its face, we're thinking about everything that's green and growing. But as Yvonne Baskin shows in Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World, we'd be nowhere without that most overlooked of substances: dirt. In the first chapter, she introduces an amazing world that holds two-thirds of the planet's biodiversity, from gigantic fungi to ancient microbes that can live in boiling hot springs or under sheathes of polar ice.
On Interning at Island Press: Wednesday Meetings
By Meghan Bartels / On April 10th, 2014
In this installment, Editorial Intern Alex Manasseri talks about her new favorite extracurricular activity.
For the past three years, I’ve experienced Washington, D.C. while immersed in a world of academia. My life has revolved around school; and in this way, my collegiate tasks have become my job, often involving reading an endless stream of articles, writing papers, giving presentations, and taking exams. This semester, however, I have had the pleasure of embarking on another journey.
Executive Orders for 2014: Michael Branch
By Michael Branch / On January 13th, 2014
Back in November of 2013, President Obama issued an executive order on climate preparedness. Because executive orders circumvent Congress within certain limits, they allow the president to implement action to address climate change and other issues. A few weeks ago I asked some of our authors to create their own executive orders to improve our handling of the environment.
Learning What Feels Green
By Rafe Sagarin / On October 28th, 2013
There’s a great interview of anthropologist David Howes in the 14 September 2103 NewScientist (subscription access) about the role of synesthesia in marketing products. Synestesia—the sense of mixing senses (experiencing color as a flavor, for example) is often portrayed as a special sense that all of us dabble in, but a select odd few (the Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov, for ex