Author Archives: BABW

Nature News in Review – Week Ending April 3, 2009

Flora One of the great mysteries of how plants attract pollen may be closer to being solved. Algae investigated as a possible source for the production of alternative fuels. Fauna The research is in and it’s now confirmed: chicks dig math. British study on evolution moves forward at a snail’s pace. Natural Resources and Public [...]

Good of the Order – Change of Address Notification

Write a blog long enough and at some point in time you are bound to encounter at least a small bit of difficulty between youself and your site host. Most of the time, and with luck, it will be possible to resolve the problem in less than a day. However in some more serious situations, the [...]

Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 27, 2009

Flora Efforts to mitigate climate change could be hampered if nations do not agree to protect the world’s forests by the end of the year. Despite FOX news proclaiming it safe, the U.S. Border Patrol delays Rio Grande plant poisoning. (Hey, its simply the process of dropping large amounts of a chemical herbicide into a [...]

Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 20, 2009

Flora Cyclopogon elatus orchid species rediscovered in Florida swamp. (Here’s the link to the Flickr image mentioned but not shown in the article.) “In the absence of trees, our communities would simply collapse.” – Andrew Dokurugu, a project officer for Tree Aid. Fauna European and Peruvian herpetologists have discovered the smallest frog yet known from [...]

Book Review – Inner Beauty of Nature

A recent arrival in the Nature Blog Network Blog team mailbox was a copy of Inner Beauty of Nature, the latest publication by Dr. Bert Myers on the subject of x-ray photography. While not ordinarily a tool used by most field naturalists (first and foremost due to its high cost), the technique of capturing images [...]

Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 13, 2009

Flora The botanical world is mourning the recent death of noted lichen expert Dr. John Thompson. Micro-algae are growing faster under the influence of climate change; however the composition of the algae is changing and as a result of which their nutritional value for other aquatic life is decreasing. Fauna A California Condor suffering from [...]

Nature News in Review – Week Ending March 6, 2009

Flora Some of the finest gardens and woodlands in Britain are under threat from two closely related and aggressive fungus-like plant diseases. Studying the effects of ultraviolet radiation on bryophytes can help scientists understand its impacts on crops, ecological systems, and humans. Fauna A Red-tailed Hawk is in intensive care at the Audubon Society of [...]

Good of the Order – A Beloved Blog Goes Silent

It is with great sadness that I bring the news to the Nature Blog Network community of the temporary (it is hoped) silencing of Bug Girl’s Blog. To all those of us who were – and hope to one day be again – regular readers of this wonderful collection of entomological and social commentary, the [...]

Nature News in Review – Week Ending February 27, 2009

Flora Naturalists in Cambridgeshire say they have been astounded by the large number of ancient trees that have been found preserved in the peat soil of the Fens. Almost 90,000 food crop seed samples have arrived at the “doomsday vault” in the Arctic Circle, as part of its first anniversary celebrations. A Douglas Fir in [...]

Good of the Order – Correcting the Record

Last week in the Good of the Order, I posted the information about a charitable giving program out of the UK named The Big Give. I also indicated that a personal appeal from one of their staffers would be posted here. Well, not to get into the entire susage making process, but after a long [...]