Published July 5, 2015 Madagascar labradorite This is from Madagascar. This mineral is iridescent. It has its own mineral term named for the shimmering blues and greens – […]
Published March 8, 2016 Whooping Cranes Many years ago driving across the country I caught a glimpse of a whooping crane on migration. Ever since then, I have […]
Published November 3, 2015 Wild and Woolly Winter In 1948 Dr. Curran, then curator of insects at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, began a tradition of traveling […]
Published February 22, 2016 Three Seasons When I studied monkeys and tropical rainforests, I missed the four seasons. True, for a naturalist, there is little to compare […]