New framework sheds light on how, not if, climate change affects cold-blooded animals

Cold-blooded animals like lizards, insects and fish have a preferred body temperature range at which they hunt, eat, move quickly and reproduce. Fear that a warming climate will constrict this temperature range underlies recent studies that warn of the detrimental effects of climate change on the activity and survival of cold-blooded animals. While not contradicting these warnings, a new paper […]

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Poem – In The Mood (By Donal Mahoney)

We’re going dancing, my wife and I,  to a Charity Ball high in the sky where Glenn Miller’s band has been playing  since 1944, the year his plane got lost  over the English Channel. No wreckage was ever found, not a single body. Glenn Miller was going to France  to play for American troops  during World War II. Government records say  he’s still “missing in action.”   Maybe so, […]

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Reef madness

It seemed like a good idea at the time. In 1972, Broward County, Fla., organized more than 100 boats to dump an estimated 700,000 tires into the Atlantic Ocean in hopes of sparking the growth of an artificial reef. Ultimately corals never grew on the bundles of tires, and over time the bundles became loose, causing damage to nearby natural […]

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