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What To Do With Injured Wildlife
We at Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke have found that our neighbors in southwestern Virginia are very concerned about wildlife, so we want to provide some guidelines to...
ASHLEY RAMBO SHAW: I Hope You Found a Way Out
Jason was my best friend in the third grade, and he was hopelessly poor. He...
H. BRUCE RINKER: Pollution Has A Brand!
When Mexican businessman Alfredo Gandur inspected my photographs of marine plastics pollution along the coastline...
What Wondrous Variety!
In the early 1990s, while on expedition in equatorial Africa, I helped to discover two...
Stones In The Washing Machine
Want to understand the rise of modern Europe? Look for stones in the washing...
A Few Small Nips
In her 1935 painting, “A Few Small Nips,” revolutionary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo recorded in cartoon-like fashion a grisly murder: a bare and bloodied...
A Silly Little $5 Billion Salamander
Virginia Sneezeweed and the Cow Knob Salamander. Their common names sound like droll Dr. Seuss characters.
Their scientific names, on the other hand, resonate with...
A Dash of Darwin, a Pinch of Puzzlement
On 12 February 2015, we celebrated International Darwin Day to honor the 206th birthday of Charles Darwin, British naturalist, author, and humanitarian. Arguably, he...
Keep Your Leaves to Save Butterflies, Moths, and Many Other Critters
October is the month in which we might be treated to a colorful show of leaves, courtesy of our deciduous trees. Yet, to most...
A Handshake For The Century
Sometimes you are a witness to history, and sometimes you step up and grab it by the hand.
George Shuba was by any measure a...
Here’s How World Markets Get Destabilized
It starts with a product that is, well, the only way to put it is...addicting. During World War 2, an Italian confectionary company was...
