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#ForewordFriday Heatstroke

By Admin / On July 13th, 2012

In anticipation of the Society for Conservation Biology, North American Congress for Conservation Biology meeting that starts this weekend, get familiar with Anthony Barnosky and his important book, Heatstroke.

Island Press Staff Picks

By Admin, Jason Leppig / On June 25th, 2012

This week's pick is from Senior Editor, Heather Boyer. From Heather:

#ForewordFriday Climate and Conservation

By Jason Leppig / On June 15th, 2012

This week's #forewordFriday pick is from the newly released book, Climate and Conservation. Craig Groves, Director, Conservation Methods Team at The Nature Conservancy calls this book:

Trophic Cascades Not Included in Climate Dialogue

By Admin / On August 4th, 2010

This post was written by Todd Baldwin, vice president and associate publisher at Island Press.

Obama Needs Churchill 101

By Jonathan Isham / On February 25th, 2009

In times of great trial, the best politicians strive for Churchillian rhetoric – or better yet, simply quote Churchill. And in tough times, no quote resounds more than Churchill’s memorable assessment, in late 1942, of the Battle of El Alamein, the first major British victory in WW II: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

On Celebrating Climate

By Timothy Beatley / On January 22nd, 2009

When I lived in Oregon many years ago there was a humorous expression: "Oregonians Don't Tan, they Rust!" There was much truth to that as much of late fall and winter in the Northwest is damp and rainy. Yet, this weather system is one of the aspects of place I remember most fondly; I can still recall the look and feel and smell of that rain. There was certainly not the sense that the rainy season was to be dreaded, rather it was one of the aspects of place that contributed positively to the special sense of place there.

More on brains

By [node:field_contributor] / On August 6th, 2008

Our brains evolved over hundreds of millions of years to react to rapid changes in our environment. One apparently built-in feature is the tendency to keep the environmental backdrop against which our lives play out relatively constant. That makes it easier to detect rapid changes to which an organisms must react. One of our fish ancestors in a Devonian lake 400 million years ago was not paying attention to .01 degree Celsius temperature changes in the water occurring as clouds passed the sun - it was looking out for dangerous predators in that water that could end its life in a second.