Not every scientist is comfortable being an agent of social change. But it's no stretch for Hoyt Peckham and other researchers affiliated with Pro Peninsula, a San Diego-based conservation group. They see it as their duty to protect the endangered loggerhead sea turtles they study along remote stretches of Baja…
Move over Captain Planet, the environment has a new superhero—a mystery man in a silver mask known as El Hijo del Santo (Son of the Saint). Part of the popular Mexican wrestling tradition lucha libre (freestyle wrestling), El Hijo del Santo is the spokesperson for Wildcoast Costasalvaje, a nonprofit that…
MEXICO CITY — Biologist Karen Krebbs used to study bats at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the Arizona-Mexico border. Then she got tired of dodging drug smugglers all night. "I use night-vision goggles and you could see them very clearly," Krebbs said of the caravans of men with guns…
Greencastle, Ind. - "The connection between turtles and the wider environmental movement is clear," Wallace J. Nichols, senior scientist at the Ocean Conservancy and 1989 graduate of DePauw University, tells E. Dr. Nichols is featured in the latest issue of the environmental magazine, and discusses his work with sea turtles…
"We are ocean, period. Seventy percent of the world is ocean and eighty percent of global biodiversity is in it. We need to take care of the ocean. No matter where we are, we depend on it." —Wallace J. Nichols Wallace J. Nichols does much of his turtle research in…
