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Audubon's species: Bird art, in all its glory

An illustration of the scarlet ibis by Audubon from 1837, from "Birds: The Art of Ornithology" by Jonathan Elphick. (John James Audubon) In 1812, John James Audubon filled a wooden box with about 200 of his paintings of American birds and left it with ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, International Herald Tribune,  7 Oct 2008

Audubon’s Species: Bird Art, in All Its Glory

In 1812, John James Audubon filled a wooden box with about 200 of his paintings of American birds and left it with a relative for safekeeping while he went off on one of his many trips. When he returned to retrieve the paintings, he discovered to his ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times,  6 Oct 2008

A Pristine Florida Island for the Beachgoing Purist

HIGH-RISE condo towers march shoulder to shoulder along most of the barrier islands that line the Florida coast. But in the middle of a densely settled stretch on the Gulf coast north of Clearwater, a little bit of the old Florida survives. It is ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times,  3 Oct 2008

After Hurricane Ike, finding the coastline rearranged, again

From the plane flying over the Gulf Islands National Seashore, scientists from the United States Geological Survey were scanning the ocean, trying to find Ship Island. Their maps and GPS system told them they were over its eastern end, but there was no ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, International Herald Tribune,  23 Sep 2008

United States: After Hurricane Ike, Finding the Coastline Rearranged, Again

From the plane flying over the Gulf Islands National Seashore, scientists from the United States Geological Survey were scanning the ocean, trying to find Ship Island. Their maps and G.P.S. system told them they were over its eastern end, but there was ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, EcoEarth News,  22 Sep 2008

After Hurricane Ike, Finding the Coastline Rearranged, Again

From the plane flying over the Gulf Islands National Seashore, scientists from the United States Geological Survey were scanning the ocean, trying to find Ship Island. Their maps and G.P.S. system told them they were over its eastern end, but there was ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times,  22 Sep 2008

Private Ownership of Fisheries May Shore Up Stocks

Giving people ownership rights in marine fisheries in a way, privatizing the fish can halt or even reverse catastrophic declines in commercial stocks, researchers in California and Hawaii are reporting. The idea goes against the grain among people who ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times,  18 Sep 2008

Seeking a Return to Prominence

An expert panel of the National Academies is urging Senators Barack Obama and John McCain to restore the position of White House science adviser to the prominence it enjoyed before President Bush took office. The panel is also calling for the ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, The Caucus,  17 Sep 2008

Report Says Public Outreach, Done Right, Aids Policymaking

For decades, laws have required many government agencies to seek public participation in the establishment of environmental policies. And for decades critics have derided the requirement as producing little more than confusion, delay, expense, ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times,  22 Aug 2008

The ethics of remaking the planet to save it

Last year, a private company proposed "fertilizing" parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching ...

From CORNELIA DEAN, International Herald Tribune,  12 Aug 2008

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