17 December 2015 I spent a few days in Beijing last week, the first time since 2005. I expected to find changes, but I was nonetheless surprised. Instead of vendors hawking fake Prada bags on the street (they would follow me chanting “Gucci-Prada”), there are now lavish malls selling the real thing. Christmas trees and …
25 May 2015 An update: the Benton County anti-GMO ballot measure 2-89 went down to a resounding defeat in last week's election: you can read an account in the Corvallis newspaper here. It was not clear to voters that the measure would not ban genetically-related research at Oregon State University (its language indicated a blanket …
12 May 2015 Benton County, Oregon, where I live, has a controversial measure on the ballot for next week's local elections that would ban all GMO organisms in the county as well as establishing a legal right to a local food system, and allowing citizens to sue on behalf of local land and water …
26 October 2014, Berlin Last weekend I went to a public forum of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG). This is a group, mostly of geologists, who propose that the Anthropocene is a new geological era, “an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale.” The working group also includes some ecologists and climate scientists. The AWG …
Beavers Are Mysteriously Back in Britain—but Not Entirely Welcome...
You could smell them before you saw them, what Raymond Chandler called “that peculiar tomcat smell,” so evocative of southern California. I did not expect to smell them in a forest in Galicia, in northwestern Spain, where I spent a week last September walking the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. But there they were, …
Scientific American has just written about the research on mountain meadows of OSU's Harold Zald. Harold was one of the featured participants in Alpine Environment workshop I organized last month.
I was one of several contributors to the H-Environment Roundtable on Edmund Russell's book Evolutionary History. You can see the entire roundtable discussion here.
Harriet Ritvo's essay "Going Forth and Multiplying: Animal Acclimatization and Invasion," with numerous comments, including mine, can be found here.
On Tuesday, I gave a talk at the US Geological Survey office in Portland on the topic "The Future is Not the Past: the Role of History in a Changing Landscape." In the talk, I summarized an article that I have been working on with Eric Higgs and a bunch of other people that defends …
Anita Guerrini 