Now that's one tough hombre of a coyote!
No wonder the coyote is such a survivor in the American wilderness and suburbia: When a brother and sister struck a coyote at 75mph they assumed they had killed the animal and drove on. ...

Empty gestures and selective remembrances
Its the night before thanksgiving here in California, and - not unlike many American men - I am watching a game on the telly. Well, on the telly in India but funneled to my laptop via the intertubes...

Crepuscular companion from my youth...
...how I miss having you around the house now! Back - waaay back - in the days when I was a suburban kid without much access to "nature" and no television (yes - imagine that kids, no TV!), I...

The remarkable story of the Himalayan Snow Partridge in Nevada
A Himalayan Snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis) in the Ruby Mountains in Nevada. Picture from www.BackpackingintheRubyMountains.com Via the American Birding Association comes a remarkable,...

The vast conspiracy behind the global warming hoax...
... is laid bare in 4 minutes by the atmospheric chemist (turned whistle-blower?) Rachel Pike in this TED talk! And, I mean, isn't it astonishing the lengths to which these thousands of scientists...