Reader Todd Mackinaw recently admired how the great horned owl can thrive from the Brooks Range in Alaska all the way to Uruguay in South America. The knee-high owl known for its “plumicorns” — tufts above its ears that resemble horns — haunts every forested bit of Alaska. Right about now, in early April, many […]
The four-propeller drone sitting briefly on a rocky and dusty surface in Central America in early March had an impressive diameter of nearly 7 ½ feet. From afar, however, it appeared as just another small rock or outcrop in the steaming crater of Costa Rica’s Poás volcano. This small speck had a big and innovative […]
“Oil companies know that protest works,” said Greenpeace USA’s leader. With cleanup efforts still underway in rural North Dakota on Friday after yet another Keystone crude oil pipeline spill, Greenpeace USA interim executive director Sushma Raman said that the incident “shows exactly why we need to protect protest, free speech, and the right to speak up against harm.” Keystone ruptured on […]
