Articles by Robert Lalasz
Robert Lalasz is the director of science communications at The Nature Conservancy and blogs on Cool Green Science.
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Can we make nature even better?
A new book reexamines traditional views of wilderness, asserting that human influence over nature is undeniable.
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Can Florida's nature and people outrace sea-level rise?
Laura Geselbracht talks about what sea-level rise is doing to Florida's Gulf Coast.
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Et tu, pistachios? How climate change will mess with trail mix
Pistachios: What shell remain? Photo: PatternedCross-posted from Cool Green Science. What won’t climate change affect? Well, cross trail mix and cherry pie off that ever-shrinking list. It turns out that crisp apples, chewy almonds, ripe plums, and a host of other nuts and stone fruits might become much more costly to grow — or not […]
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Want a better organic garden? Call out the soil-critter army
The helpful Jerusalem cricket.Photo: Franco FoliniCross-posted from Cool Green Science. There are 1 billion bacteria in a single gram of soil. (Give or take a few million.) But how can you get that army — and its insect friends, like the two-inch Jerusalem cricket pictured to the right — to help you grow bigger veggies […]