Manzanita trees don’t grow very big and they are crooked and full of twisted branches. For most of the wood products industry this is why manzanita is considered worthless. For making traditional products like lumber, …

It has been recognised for many years that there are bacteria as well as other things like viruses and algal and fungal spores in the air. In the time of Louis Pasteur great efforts had …

Manzanita trees grow in the western US and Mexico and can range from low growing ground covers to small trees. Manzanita is considered by many to be useless brush but these plants have more uses …

An Ecosystem of One Species
Ecosystems, as the name suggests, normally have several or many different species interacting and each contributing in their own way to the whole system of life in their environment.
Some might be …

Introduction
Whether or not the world’s climate is changing, and whether or not that change is man-made, our development is governed by the fundamental laws of science; we will not really run out of scarce resources, …

In 1911, Griffith Taylor, a geologist, was in Antarctica and discovered the glacier that came to be called the Taylor Glacier, and a dry valley, the Taylor Valley. He also found a section of ice …

Fall is the time to start feeding the wild birds. That is the time that their population is the greatest–including the fledglings of migrating birds and of year-round habitants. The birds that migrate, especially, are …

The Schumann Resonance is sometimes referred to as the Earth’s Heartbeat. As such, it is probable that people expect somehow to hear it, quietly thumping away.
It feels as if it should be audible. But you …

Lichens
Lichens are a symbiotic association of a fungus and an alga. Effectively, some of these associations are so close that the lichen can be considered as a single organism.
How Lichens Work
In a lichen, the visible …