Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The U.S. military is moving aggressively to reduce its energy “bootprint.” The Department of Defense is our country’s largest single consumer of energy, using more than 300,000 barrels of oil per day. With an armored Humvee averaging only 4 miles per gallon, and with a gallon of […]
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: The time was 4:24 a.m. I sat upright in bed, awakened by an inspirational choir that just burst into sound. Vacationing in the woods of northern Vermont, I took a June sojourn back to my childhood forests of New England. Sleeping until noon is an obvious privilege […]
Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com: Did you know that over 70 species of ants live in Raleigh? A survey of urban insects, recently conducted by the Museum of Natural Sciences and the biology department at N.C. State University, represents the first effort that engaged citizens to count the wealth of unknown critters […]
Below is an article written by Dr. Lowman in newsobserver.com: A biological inventory project, called the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), was recently launched to catalog information about Earth’s 1.8million scientific species classified during the past several centuries. Currently, information on some species is only available piecemeal in different museums, collections, websites or roughly scribbled in […]
Below is an article written by Dr. Lowman in newsobserver.com: “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir Like a baby’s soft skin, the new foliage of spring is delicate and breathtaking as it unfolds to signify a rebirth of the natural world. A leaf lover for many decades, […]
There is one important difference between ecology and many other fascinating sciences and games: unsolved problems of chess, astronomy, or mathematics will not change if we ignore them. Our activity or lack of activity can alter the state of ecology. [Lawrence Slobodkin, 2003 in A Citizen’s Guide to Ecology] From November 29 to December 10, […]
The Weather Breakers? A scientist from Down Under visits Florida We walk on earth, We look after, Like rainbow sitting on top. But something underneath, Under the ground. We don’t know. You don’t know. What do you want to do? If you touch, You might get cyclone, heavy rain or flood. Not just here, You […]
