And we’re celebrating. In fact, we’re just itching to tell you all about Amy Stewart‘s new book (published by our bookworm friends at Algonquin), Wicked Bugs. There’s quite the…
This summer, I was driving down a country road with a friend who also happens to be a biology teacher. As we passed a pond surrounded by marshes, he…
If the latest news about the failed junk shot makes you want to top kill somebody, and sliming the nearest BP sign feels like an empty gesture (someone already…
I generally think of myself as a fairly responsible eater – avoiding fast food, shopping the perimeters of the supermarket, buying “wild caught” fish, and perusing the local farmer’s…
Most people think of gardening as a “green” activity. And it is, but not if you’re using a chemical cocktail of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides on your landscape.…
As much as you might be an admirer of the great outdoors, odds are that you are not a fan of bugs munching on your plants or skittering across…