Climate change in Costa Rica

Is there anyone out there?

Of Darwin and Mishima . . .

Space defense no reason to ax gentler projects

Do bacteria make the man (or woman or child)?

Life and left-handed meteorites

PERCEPTIONS A LA CARTE

Food for thought in our ways of seeing

'REPTILES AND NERDS'

Let science empower you

SCIENTISTS 1 - 1 CATHOLICS

Mass ignorance on 'half-human embryos'

AGE-OLD ISSUES

Can we be forever young?

Lives and a death

Aloft with ospreys, ultimate Fisher Kings

A nature sanctuary for the ages

SPECIES LEFT OUT; SPECIES BROUGHT IN

Omissions and risky commissions

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Egrets' epitome of elegance

BLOOD IN THE WATER

Nature tour turns sour as we see 'endangered' prey killed

WINTERS ON THE WANE

Snow season's not what it was . . .

A WINTER'S TALE

There's no time like snow time!

BRAZIL'S FAUNA FANTASTIQUE

Biodiversity to take your breath away

Individual variations and a sense of identity

City gone wild

The right way to reconstruct rivers

To cage or not to cage?

DOWN UNDER DIARY

Water in a 'howling wilderness'

LIVING OFF THE LAND

In praise of the 'mountain whale'

SCOURGE OR BOUNTY?

Talking sense about deer

Wintertime and the livin' ain't easy

WITH AINU FRIENDS IN HOKKAIDO

Pride towers amid ongoing woes

FROM CICADAS TO POO SPIDERS

'Stoopid ninja' keeps on learning

MINUS IONS ANOTHER PLUS IN THE WOODS

High times away from summer's heat

There's still hope — despite our milquetoast* leaders

All hail capitalism, mendacious destroyer of life on Earth

Burying our heads in the sand

Is growth driving us to oblivion?

APOCALYPSE WHEN?

Can three experts all be wrong on looming disaster?

MARINE CONSERVATION

Even oceans can only take so much

WHO'S 'GREEN' IN THE WHITE HOUSE RACE?

Cars and fuel set to get more political

DELVING BENEATH THE HEADLINES

Wrapping up the year with dollops of whale and tuna

HOMEROOM TRUTHS

'Gore's Nobel Prize is wonderful'

EAST KOLKATA WETLANDS

Turning waste into rich resources

Turning to rock 'n' roll for lyric-sheet linguistics

Katakana makes Japanese trendy and accessible

Learn katakana properly or face full-frontal nudity

Building bridges across continents and cultures

King Kojien dictionary knights new words

Investigating the linguistic allure of hard-boiled detectives

Mastery of kanji takes time to build, just like Rome

Wielding four-kanji phrases surest way to fluency

Hopes of silence in Tokyo undergo brutal assault

KY-style Japanese: Express yourself alphabetically

Tanuki genitals

Idling drivers

Anti-crime color balls

Pocket bells

Chuhai

Bento grass

Mistletoe

Moles

'Fierce scowl' stickers