Posts Tagged ‘National Geographic’

Maybe Extinction Isn't Forever. Is That a Good Thing?

March 14, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in conservation, conservation biology, ecology, environment, extinction, select | 24 comments

Have you heard about the big event National Geographic is hosting with TEDx this week, the one about restoring species? No, not endangered species–but ones that are already extinct, like the woolly mammoth. I have mixed feelings about the idea. In the abstract, I think it’s pretty cool. The prospect of regaining lost pieces of…Continue Reading…

The Earth Shapers

March 7, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, Anthropocene, climate change | 12 comments

If you had to pick the human influences most responsible for altering the earth, what would they be? Half a century ago, this question was (dispassionately) addressed in a landmark symposium called, “Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth.” A 2005 retrospective review of the volume of interdiscplinary scholarship that emerged in 1956 notes that the syposium was…Continue Reading…