Autumn Equinox: Time to take stock of the season
This weekend is the autumn equinox, when we say goodbye to summer and head into fall.
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Messages from the Sky: The Blue Moon, an Eclipse, and the Perseid Meteor Shower
The August skies were full of cosmological action, like the Perseid Meteor Shower and two Supermoons, including a Blue Moon. I didn’t see any of them – but I did see one shooting star.
Rain on Ice
We live in strange times indeed when it rains at the summit of a cold ice cap like Greenland.
Heatwave Aftermath
Heatwaves in the Pacific Northwest are bad news for the coastal temperate rainforest.
Heatwave!
The recent Pacific Northwest heatwave has implications for future climate in this region.
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
Two weeks ago I read an article in our regional newspaper about the drought on Vancouver Island and I thought “drought, what drought?” It seemed … Read more
What is “Nature?”
What if we excised “nature” and “wilderness” from our language – how would we relate to the natural world?
The Salt Path and The Wild Silence
This past week I read two books by Raynor Winn, a UK nature writer. The Salt Path is the first, which was followed by The … Read more
Here Come the Cicadas
I have always been fascinated by cicadas – the periodical ones that emerge every 13 or 17 years in a frenzy of feeding and mating. … Read more
In the Trees
Trees are so much more than just stalks of wood.
