by Chris Woodside | Nov 15, 2011 | Magazine Articles
Nature Climate Change Volume 1 Issue 8 Nature Climate Change, November 2011 The amazing giant saguaro cactus of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States does what its human neighbours cannot. It survives on 8 to 15 inches of annual rainfall. The...
by Chris Woodside | Oct 31, 2011 | Magazine Articles
Aldo Leopold (U.S. Forest Service) Connecticut Woodlands, Fall 2011 Aldo Leopold was a hunter. The icon of the environmental movement, the man who taught us not to exploit the land but understand its complexities, wasn’t a bloodthirsty killer. He believed that hunting...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 21, 2011 | Magazine Articles
Rose Wilder Lane testifying in 1939 before Congress. She favored the Ludlow Amendment, which would have taken declaring war to a vote of the people. (Library of Congress photo) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2010 Over the past several years, my pursuit of information...
by Chris Woodside | Jun 21, 2011 | Magazine Articles
A landslide from too much rain in Colombia (photo courtesy of Equal Exchange) The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media, June 7, 2011 That morning ritual, reading the newspaper while sipping coffee, already has given way to peering at the computer over the mug....
by Chris Woodside | Apr 3, 2011 | Magazine Articles
Niamh Murtagh studies why people waste energy at home, even when they know they shouldn’t. Since this story appeared in Nature Climate Change’s inaugural issue of March 2011, Murtagh has changed her affiliation to University College London and continues to...
by Chris Woodside | Mar 28, 2011 | Magazine Articles
William Stanley Jevons first theorized that efficiency could lead to using even more energy. The Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media A bit of a buzz is making its way through media circles in response to some recent thought-provoking articles on the old...