The exciting new face of nature conservation science By Kristina Aluzaite As intense morning rays light up the majestic faces and ridges of Nepal’s Khumbu valley, a group of mountaineers armed with ice gear and thick down jackets stand on a 20,000′ ice and rock giant: Lobuche East. They set up a rappel station on the edge […]
Top photo: Alan Rabinowitz, PopTech 2010 by Kris Krüg (CC BY-SA 2.0) By Ben Lybarger Last month Alan Rabinowitz – zoologist, conservationist, and co-founder of Panthera – passed away at the age of 64. When he was just a painfully awkward child locked inside himself by a debilitating stutter, he’d often visit the big cats at the Bronx Zoo. […]
Top Photo: Street in Hangzhou, China, with trees separating a cycle track from road traffic and from the sidewalk. (Xu Wen, CC BY-ND) Author: Anne Lusk, Harvard University City streets and sidewalks in the United States have been engineered for decades to keep vehicle occupants and pedestrians safe. If streets include trees at all, they […]
