University of California Press Blog » Ecology, Evolution and Environment http://www.ucpress.edu/blog Blog Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:29:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 In Memoriam: Robert C. Stebbins http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/16017/in-memoriam-robert-c-stebbins/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/16017/in-memoriam-robert-c-stebbins/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:27:42 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=16017 UC Press is sad to note the passing of renowned herpetologist, Robert C. Stebbins, who died in his home on Monday at the age of 98. Stebbins was a Professor of Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, a curator of the University’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the author of over a dozen books, including, [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/16017/in-memoriam-robert-c-stebbins/feed/ 0 Yucca Mountain in the Spotlight Again http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15883/yucca-mountain-in-the-spotlight-again/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15883/yucca-mountain-in-the-spotlight-again/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2013 21:50:58 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15883 A Federal Appeals Court ruled earlier this month that President Obama must make a decision about whether to use Yucca Mountain to dump nuclear waste. The Nevada site was designated by the George W. Bush administration as the nation’s only dumping ground for radioactive waste. The project has been halted since 2010, but the recent [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15883/yucca-mountain-in-the-spotlight-again/feed/ 0 Jon Christensen on Elon Musk’s Flight of Fancy http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15865/jon-christensen-on-elon-musks-flight-of-fancy/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15865/jon-christensen-on-elon-musks-flight-of-fancy/#comments Thu, 22 Aug 2013 01:59:27 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15865 Illustration by Elon Musk/Tesla Motors.

Is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop like a 21st century version of the transcontinental railroad? Jon Christensen, the Editor of Boom: A Journal of California, draws some interesting parallels between the two in the New Yorker’s Elements blog. Both seemed impossibly fast for their day and age, and both have the power [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15865/jon-christensen-on-elon-musks-flight-of-fancy/feed/ 0 Rebecca Solnit on Landscapes of the Self in Harper’s http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15836/rebecca-solnit-on-landscapes-of-the-self-in-harpers/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15836/rebecca-solnit-on-landscapes-of-the-self-in-harpers/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:26:47 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15836 Rebecca Solnit. © Sallie Dean Shatz

Head over to Harper’s Magazine to read a six-question interview with Rebecca Solnit, in which she talks about her two new books, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (UC Press) and The Faraway Nearby (Viking), and her continuing project to define the self in terms of physical, natural, political, [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15836/rebecca-solnit-on-landscapes-of-the-self-in-harpers/feed/ 0 Taking the Long View: How Paleoclimatologist Lynn Ingram Sees the Future of California’s Water http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15809/taking-the-long-view-how-paleoclimatologist-lynn-ingram-sees-the-future-of-californias-water/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15809/taking-the-long-view-how-paleoclimatologist-lynn-ingram-sees-the-future-of-californias-water/#comments Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:52:57 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15809 The summer issue of California Magazine features an interview with UC Berkeley professor Lynn Ingram, co-author of The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow. The new book, which Ingram wrote with colleague Frances Malamud-Roam, documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15809/taking-the-long-view-how-paleoclimatologist-lynn-ingram-sees-the-future-of-californias-water/feed/ 0 Parallel Universe Authors Highlight Timely Climate Change Issues http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15802/parallel-universe-authors-highlight-timely-climage-change-issues/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15802/parallel-universe-authors-highlight-timely-climage-change-issues/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:07:47 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15802 Silt washes down the Yellow River. Photo credit: Imaginechina

Traveling the 38th Parallel authors David and Janet Carle highlight some important climate change issues on their blog, Parallel Universe 38°N. First, they point to some amazing photos of 30 million tons of silt washing down the Yellow River in China, a key story in their [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15802/parallel-universe-authors-highlight-timely-climage-change-issues/feed/ 0 Boston Museum of Science to Feature Exhibition of Gary Braasch’s Photographs Documenting Climate Change http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15772/boston-museum-of-science-to-feature-exhibition-of-gary-braaschs-photographs-documenting-climate-change/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15772/boston-museum-of-science-to-feature-exhibition-of-gary-braaschs-photographs-documenting-climate-change/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:05:15 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15772

 

On Saturday, June 22nd, the Boston Museum of Science will open an exhibition of photographs by Gary Braasch, environmental photojournalist and author of the book, Earth under Fire. Braasch’s work not only reveals how climate change is altering our planet, but how humans are working to slow these changes through alternative energy use and conservation.

Each photograph is [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15772/boston-museum-of-science-to-feature-exhibition-of-gary-braaschs-photographs-documenting-climate-change/feed/ 0 Desalinization Issues on the 38th Parallel http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15695/desalinization-issues-on-the-38th-parallel/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15695/desalinization-issues-on-the-38th-parallel/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 01:26:25 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15695 David and Janet Carle, authors of Traveling the 38th Parallel: A Water Line around the World, report on their blog that the desalinization plant in Torrevieja, Spain—a 38th Parallel site they visited in 2010—is nearing completion after 10 years of construction. The Torrevieja plant will be the largest desalinization structure in Europe and the second-largest in the [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15695/desalinization-issues-on-the-38th-parallel/feed/ 0 Preserving Healthy Soil for Future Generations http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15678/preserving-healthy-soil-for-future-generations/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15678/preserving-healthy-soil-for-future-generations/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:46:31 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15678 David R. Montgomery, author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations and professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, was recently profiled as one of Sunset Magazine’s “10 Visionaries, Trendsetters, and Innovators” who are “redefining every aspect of gardening in the West—and changing the way we live, eat, and connect with one another.”

Montgomery was [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15678/preserving-healthy-soil-for-future-generations/feed/ 0 Travelling the 38th Parallel: What’s Happening Now? http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15570/travelling-the-38th-parallel-whats-happening-now/ http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15570/travelling-the-38th-parallel-whats-happening-now/#comments Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:38:56 +0000 ssilverman http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=15570 Three years ago, David and Janet Carle, authors of the new book Traveling the 38th Parallel, embarked on the trip of a lifetime. The former state park rangers from Mono Lake, California journeyed around the world along the 38th parallel in search of water-related environmental and cultural intersections.

We’ve followed their adventures before here on the UC Press [more...]]]> http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/15570/travelling-the-38th-parallel-whats-happening-now/feed/ 0