Western Christians, both Protestants and Catholics, are currently observing Lent, the 40-day season preceding Easter. Through self-denial, alms-giving, and prayer,…
There’s a manual which provides mental health professionals with “diagnostic criteria for mental disorders.” I suggest that the manual should…
As I have said on BreakPoint before, for many people environmentalism occupies the same place traditionally occupied by more conventional…
On Tuesday, I told BreakPoint listeners that, according to NASA’s James Hansen, President Obama has just four years to save…
Yesterday, I told you that the science surrounding man-made global warming was hardly “settled.” I noted the skepticism of respected…
Did you know that the planet has been cooling since at least 2003? Or that the arctic ice cap is…
Recently, scientists warned that the red knot, a small shorebird, might join the Dodo on the list of birds driven…
If you watch nature shows, you may notice how often writers use terms like “nature’s wrath” and “nature’s fury”—even though…
Joan Blades describes herself as, among other things, a “nature lover” and a “mother.” She is also a co-founder of…
Last month, the Texas Academy of Science named ecology professor Eric Pianka of the University of Texas its “Distinguished Texas…
