How fares the singular Patagonian Cypress, the Alerce, these majestic 200+ foot trees, with lifespans exceeding 4,000 years, populating the western shores of temperate South America?  From Chile’s mediterranean mid-section, southwards until the escarpments of the Andes begin to moderate into a broader expanse of multiple ridges and mountain ranges, rainwatered from the Atlantic, through river gorges and ascending rolling and rugged hillsides [...]

Most modern cars now have onboard black box recorders, but the standard units typically only store the most recent few seconds of driving data.  They are used in accident investigations.  And consumers have already been able to purchase recorders that track your vehicle’s braking, acceleration, mileage, and spit out a report, extracting the data via OBD II [...]

On the U.K. based website The Independent, their science section published a report on March 19th entitled “Dams: Deep Trouble.” Below this ominous title, the tag line read “Are vast dams around the world masking the full extent of sea level rise?”
The story goes on to state “over the past 50 years, new [...]

That is the relevant question, when you read alarmist stories about ice melt in Antarctica.  On March 25th, for example, the BBC dutifully reported “Antarctic Shelf Hangs by a Thread” in a report by science correspondant Helen Briggs.  Here is the tag line below the title:  “A chunk of ice the size of the Isle of [...]

The ideals of unions are noble and pure.  The rights of the ordinary worker are indeed worth fighting for.  But there are unions and there are unions.
In the competitive private arena, unions that ask for too much will eventually derail their company’s financial success.  For example, unions negotiated defined retirement benefits decades ago with America’s major [...]

Earlier in March we attracted the attention of a professional PR firm dedicated to exposing “deniers,” and felt personally what it’s like to have your integrity questioned by people with no idea who you are, or what you truly believe.  As we stated in our response, we are not going to descend into hyperbole or personal [...]

The Northern Fur Seals will hang around all day in one spot, unlike the Harbor Seals, which is a good way to identify a possible sighting of one.  You see lots of Harbor Seals in the Monterey Bay, and at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco Bay, but in most of these places Northern Fur Seals have [...]