Guest Columnist

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 Little Curiosity about a Great Big Universe

If you were in charge of the federal budget, would you pay .5 billion to investigate the potential for life on a remote...

Spiders Spiders Everywhere!

 Charlotte’s Web, Little Miss Muffet: Those childhood books with their stories of spiders were probably created to ease children’s fears of spiders.  They...

Fall’s Surprising Gift: Mushrooms

Autumn is the time of the year when folks look up to see and enjoy brightly colored leaves on trees.  But autumn is also...