About that idea that diseases are marching across a warmed world…
It’s become one of the accepted items on the tote board of reasons not to warm the Earth up: diseases are moving poleward as temperature rises. In the Globe today, … Read More
It’s become one of the accepted items on the tote board of reasons not to warm the Earth up: diseases are moving poleward as temperature rises. In the Globe today, … Read More
It is astonishing how soon and unexpectedly flowersappear, when the fields are scarcely tinged with green.Yesterday, for instance, you observed only the radicalleaves of some plants; to-day you pluck a … Read More
Several recent spurts of news on the disappearing bats of the eastern US have managed to get past The Tracker. However today I happened to note a roundup in the Boston … Read More
Over the weekend, the government announced that it would launch a $30 million study of the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, to determine whether it’s safe in food and beverage … Read More
The Tracker is so accustomed to boasting about the golden state’s leadership on electrical and many other energy efficiency metrics that it was bracing to see a competition brewing. Several … Read More
Enough of coverage of global warming and all the rantings and ravings it inspires. The Boston Globe‘s Carolyn Y. Johnson today takes readers for a visit with the corps of weather forecasters, some … Read More
As I write, it’s less than 24 hours since two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, the oldest marathon in the country and one of the … Read More
The early reports on the Boston Marathon bombing and the Texas fertilizer plant explosion are not first drafts of history, but “tentative notes for the first drafts of the first … Read More
It’s a useful exercise to try to figure out why the Tsarnaev brothers did what they did at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, but to Joel Breuklander, such efforts can … Read More
There has never been a more pressing time to forefront your self-care routine. For those with lazy hygiene upkeep, Covid was a wakeup call. No more missed showers, half-washed hands, … Read More