The Los Angeles Times recently lost one of its best science reporters, Robert Lee Hotz, to The Wall Street Journal. For those of us in SoCal, it’s a shame: Hotz had been doing a first-rate job reporting on climate change issues, from places like Greenland, on the front page. Now he’s doing a first-rate jobContinue reading “Bad and Good at the LA Times”
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Tax Carbon Now, Says LA Times
Despite being under tremendous pressure from their corporate overlords, the denizens of the LATimes continue to put out a remarkably good newspaper. Yesterday they ran the best editorial on reducing carbon emissions this reporter has ever seen, with a terrific lede: If you have kids, take them to the beach. They should enjoy it whileContinue reading “Tax Carbon Now, Says LA Times”
Bee News and Views
A couple of weeks ago, based on a small study (pdf) at Landau University in Germany, it was widely reported that cellphones were causing disorientation among bees and a collapse of bee colonies. The collapse of a high percentage of bee colonies around the country is real, but not unprecedented, and today–based on research rightContinue reading “Bee News and Views”
Kit Stolz 